hurray for sdf
November 1st, 2007 Hans
Recently Toshiba decided to opt out of the high definition market when they put their A2 line of HD-DOA players on clearance throughout walmarts across the country. This lead other retail outlets such as Best Buy and Circuit City to start selling the HD-DOA player at clearance prices as well in order to clear out inventory for DVD’s true successor, Blu-Ray.
While it’s not surprising to see Toshiba release their players at a clearance price, SDF did not expect the decision to come so soon. Perhaps after the news that Transformers did nothing to stimulate interest in the dying HD-DOA brand, they felt hopeless up against the release of Spider man 1, Spiderman 2, Spiderman 3, Ratatouille, Cars, Pixar’s Short Film Collection, the Die Hard series, and Pirates 3.
With the remaining HD-DOA players leaving the shelves, this will allow retailers to clear up valuable space for Blu-Ray players and the extensive Blu-Ray software lineup. This act of desperation on behalf of Toshiba only spells immediate doom for the already dead and dying format.
Luckily, consumers are smarter than to pick up HD-DOA players at anything more than the prices they’re now being offered at. Nobody in their right mind wants to be stuck with an inferior stop-gap format that can only support 30 GB discs, 36 Mbs, and feature weak studio support. Playstation 3 will steamroll the competition this season with their competitive $399 SKU and will provide consumers the only true way of playing movies that feature: 1080p, 7.1 lossless, 50 GB discs, 54 Mbs, and a stellar lineup of movies.
