Posted by elrous0 on 11/02/07 15:46

On Oct 30, 10:55 pm, Alfred Kaufmann <al_kaufm...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I was going to sit on the side lines and wait for the cheapest high
> def player to win the battle and until then be happy purchasing plain
> DVDs and my Toshiba HD DVD player would upconvert to 1080i. Today I
> saw Spiderman 3 in the stores and they had the DVD and Blu-Ray DVD
> which I can't use. I bought the DVD and was going to settle in for
> the evening and enjoy the movie upconverted to 1080i. All of a sudden
> the player reported that this DVD does not allow upconversion and it
> will only allow me to watch it in 480p. I am tempted to package it up
> again and demand a refund! I know how these stores LOVE that.

....and that is just the kind of control-freak shit that Sony is
notorious for, and which you can expect to see a lot more of if Sony's
blu-ray format wins the format war (God forbid). Sony are just waiting
for blu-ray to become the only HD format, so they can make their big
move (requiring players to have an internet connection to play their
discs).

-Eric

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