I was just "funning" with the probable contempt high end shops have with lower priced equipment.

The more expensive the equipment the equipment, the bigger the profit margins are. Toshibas aren't likely to rake in the same margins as the higher priced blu-ray & dual format players so the installers have incentive to go with the latter. Price isn't such an issue for Consumers willing to pay top dollar for custom HT installations. You might notice the decision of that group probably took place before the Paramount decision and before Onyko/Integra HD DVD players entered the picture as "attractive HT installation material".

The convenient excuse installer have for using Blu-ray is Blu-Ray's higher storage and bandwidth, which in theory leads to better PQ/SQ for the "more discriminating" (er, higher paying) audience. If you "smack around" the "industry folks" on the AVS forum enough, you can get an admission that, yes, storage and bandwidth limitations play a role in how much content (e.g. lossless audio, IME, PIP, Seamless branching, extras) they can shoehorn onto the disk. And certainly I've gotten bloodied in return (e.g. when I question picture 'softness' on a bunch of HD movies, I need to consider how good the original masters were before taking my digs at HD movie content encodes.

But I still have the old ace in the hole: the combination of 5.1 24/96 lossless audio and high def probably isn't realistic with HD DVD. I've got this silly notion hi-rez, high def music videos have a future.

OTOH, I sometimes second-guess the BDAs move to insist all Blu-ray players support 1080p. So far, they haven't been able to compete pricewise with the cheaper 1080i HD DVD players. The Toshiba 1080p players are almost as expensive as the cheapest of the Blu-ray players.

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Topic - 92% of these dealers sales are Blu Ray - Ole Lund Christensen 06:14:04 09/28/07 (26)

Funny, the HTSA site bears LG and Sony logos but not Toshiba's ;-) NT - 4season 17:11:21 09/29/07 (0)

Probably because there are much larger profit margins - oscar 10:55:08 09/28/07 (24)

Oscar, what personal experiences have led you to believe that the Toshiba players are "POS" ...? - Audiophilander 13:07:24 09/28/07 (23)

Mine rejects dts CD-Rs regularly. Put them back in, they play. - Duilawyer 19:20:56 09/29/07 (0)

What I find worrisome is the possibility J6P will continue to stay away from $30 HD media... - oscar 15:26:03 09/28/07 (20)

RE: What I find worrisome is the possibility J6P will continue to stay away from $30 HD media... - racerguy 15:30:19 09/28/07 (19)

Quite likely - Jack G 10:47:33 09/29/07 (2)

Triple Releases Cannot Be Cost Effective - Robertc88 05:58:27 10/02/07 (1)

Do you know that for a fact? - Jack G 06:35:34 10/02/07 (0)

As More HD Displays Are Sold - Robertc88 08:57:41 09/29/07 (0)

You are looking at quite a few years(/decades?) for the next format. - oscar 15:34:43 09/28/07 (14)

That's right - racerguy 15:46:09 09/28/07 (13)

so? It didn't stop you, me or Oscar from adopting SACD - Jazz Inmate 16:59:47 09/28/07 (12)

I was not an early adopter of SACD or DVD-Audio - racerguy 17:59:50 09/28/07 (5)

then why adopt at all? Clearly you enjoyed the quality - Jazz Inmate 23:24:39 09/28/07 (4)

Why do you even need to ask such a question? - racerguy 08:24:12 09/29/07 (3)

To make the point that it's about quality and nothing else - Jazz Inmate 09:12:57 09/29/07 (2)

Nothing else? - racerguy 11:22:14 09/29/07 (1)

nope. Otherwise you wouldn't have adopted SACD or DVD-A - Jazz Inmate 16:21:50 09/29/07 (0)

And SACD flopped , just like I said , years ago over in Hi-Rez Highway , that it would . ( nt ) - ZS KEKL 17:36:08 09/28/07 (5)

SACD may be Drivin' Miss Daisy, but DVD-A is pushin' them up. (nt) - Audiophilander 00:54:54 09/29/07 (2)

Re: " Pushing up daisies " . You must be referring to DSD . DSD is not in the specs for HD DVD and Blu-ray. .. - ZS KEKL 03:01:05 09/29/07 (1)

deja vu all over again - Jazz Inmate 20:02:55 09/29/07 (0)

and DVD Audio flopped like I told you it would. You are just the - Duilawyer 22:19:47 09/28/07 (0)

SACD and DV D-A both failed......not enough people care - Wendell Narrod 20:19:50 09/28/07 (0)

I was just "funning" with the probable contempt high end shops have with lower priced equipment. - oscar 14:54:17 09/28/07 (0)

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I was just "funning" with the probable contempt high end shops have with lower priced equipment.

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