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High Def Drives

  • 08-12-2006 4:36pm
    #1
    ExoduS 18.11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 450 ✭✭


    Worth it on laptop? Or would it be foolish to spend 350 odd euros on one for a format which isnt really launched yet?


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  • #2
    Tom Dunne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,212 ✭✭✭✭Tom Dunne


    Can you get them on laptops? Links?

    Personally, I would wait.


  • #3
    Bluefoam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,753 ✭✭✭Bluefoam


    Word on the street is that you should wait for dual devices that do both HD & Blueray.

    but if you need that kind of capacty now why not go for it. Sony AR series have blueray drives.


  • #4
    ExoduS 18.11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 450 ✭✭ExoduS 18.11


    Ah yes but you will pay, and i mean PAY for a blueray player, was looking at a sony laptop in peats with blueray for close to 4000?


  • #5
    Bluefoam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,753 ✭✭✭Bluefoam


    €3000 on www.sonystyle.ie & if you ring them they can give decent discounts.

    Peats aren't generally very reasonable.


  • #6
    8T8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,757 ✭✭✭8T8


    Well Toshiba have a notebook with a built in HD-DVD drive and more coming down the pipe also so do Acer.

    Is it worth it on a laptop not really now given the price, a good DVD decoder & scaler like ATI's AVIVO or NVIDIA's Purevideo will do the job with regular DVD's.

    In terms of format wars Blu-ray isn't exactly on solid ground but shouldn't be dismissed either (the general perception is HD-DVD is winning).

    At the moment there are still outstanding issues with devices that lack HDCP support in the GPU & display it remains to be seen what will happen when you plug in a USB HD-DVD/Blu-ray drive into a notebook and if it will play as often the connections to the display are digital in modern notebooks.

    Playback in digital is only allowed with HDCP support otherwise you must play over an analogue display. So in short wait and see what happens when the playback software goes public/retail and external drives are more readily available.

    I have the Xbox 360 HD-DVD which is really just a PC Toshiba HD-DVD ROM drive with a USB adapter stuck on it anyway it will work in Windows and when the playback software is available I will test it on my own notebook and see what happens though the notebook really isn't capable performance wise to do the decoding. HP are also going to be selling an external HD-DVD drive but it comes with the player software.


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