Posted by Tricky Dicky on 02/12/06 17:20

"Bob" <spam@uce.gov> wrote in message
news:43ef6626.68292937@news-server.houston.rr.com...
> On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 10:04:05 +0000 (UTC), "Paul McLaughlin"
> <paul@paul-suzanne.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>I currently have a Philips DVR which looks like it is giving up the ghost.
>>
>>I've been looking to upgrade to the Pioneer DVR-930H-S, which has a HDMI
>>output (I've got a Pioneer Plasma, so thought this would be a good hook
>>up).
>>
>>But I'm not sure about next generation HD DVDs. Will the Pioneer be able
>>to
>>play them? I dont want to forl out �700 for something that will be need
>>to
>>be upgraded in a few months...
>
> My intuition informs me to wait on making a high end acquisition of a
> DVD-HDD unit.
>
> I expect the video entertainment industry to change radically over the
> next few years. There is no reason that the major ISPs and/or major
> cable providers can't work out some way to download videos for the
> consumer to put on his hard disk and send to other computers/players
> via a network. That effectively bypasses any need for DVDs.

Converging technologies are already with us in the shape of media PCs and I
believe the future is going to something along the lines of multi-terabyte
multi-tuner HD devices

Tricky

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