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| Obscure companies making excellent speakers? Ascend Acoustic is another company that doesn't advertise and follows the sound quality over looks philosophy. They concentrate on the budget market with their most expensive offering being their Sierra 1 monitor that is under $1K. The Sierra 1 is... | |
| YOUR Favorite Bookshelf/Monitor below $500 Add the Ascend Acoustics 170SE to the audition list for that price range. | |
| Denon's new Blu-Ray player Waiting 4 years is denying yourself 4 years of a better picture. | |
| Blockbuster goes Blu-ray, HD DVD=beta?, Newsday and the LA Times are now reporting a big check was written to Target for their Blu-ray deal. They are also reporting a bidding war for Warner Bros. to go exclusive. Retailers also have contributed to the recent jockeying. Target Corp., the... | |
| Blockbuster goes Blu-ray, HD DVD=beta?, The thing about 150 million though- thats more myth than reality. Nobody is saying that anyone specific paid anything--in other words, nobody is saying we paid this much money. Toshiba doesnt have 150 million dollars to pay a studio with as an FYI... | |
| Breaking: Paramount/Dreamworks go HDDVD exclusive Go check out the latest news on the format war on engadgethd.com Seems blu-ray is already fighting back.Fox and MGM have been BD exclusive for a long time but have released very little. With Fox I'd wait it until movies are actually out as they ha... | |
| Blockbuster goes Blu-ray, HD DVD=beta?, "Its interesting to note that neither Target or Costco now have an hd dvd player for sale online but both have BD players."You might want to double check availablity at Costco on-line. | |
| Oppo 970 sounds better than HDDVD player on DVDs? Oppo just announced a new player the the 980H yesterday. | |
| new DVD player priorities "So if you own a Blu-ray player and rent an HD DVD, will it not be compatible and not work or vice-versa?"Correct the two formats are not compatible. | |
| new DVD player priorities The high def disc adoption rate is about 1% so far. Only 30% of US households have HDTVs. Lots(most?) of studios are format exclusive. High def disc has a good chance of going the way of DVD-A and SACD. The fighting and spin by the two format fans... | |
| Blockbuster goes Blu-ray, HD DVD=beta?, blu-ray is a work in progress sounds like a compliment to me because it hasnt reached its potential yet and hd dvd is pretty much as far as it can go...Those of us of a cynical nature tend to see works in progress as frequently ending up as vaporw... | |
| Blockbuster goes Blu-ray, HD DVD=beta?, Blu-ray has a lot of potential, they haven't even finished hashing out the standards for it, but HD-DVD is pretty much fully available now. A HD-DVD player is a not too different from a standard DVD player. You can pick up a regular DVD player fro... | |
| Best Value Speaker Model for the Buck? Ascend Acoustics Sierra 1. Unbelievable for $800. | |
| Blockbuster goes Blu-ray, HD DVD=beta?, "actually you can tell if ps 3's are being sold for gaming or blu ray... just look at sales of the actual movies... then you can tell who is beating who..."That doesn't really work either. If every gamer bought just one title to check it out that ... | |
| Blockbuster goes Blu-ray, HD DVD=beta?, A salesperson told me Blu-ray players are outselling HD-DVD 6 to 1 but this was not what deecided me.That is if you include Playstation 3 sales but there is no way to know if a PS3 is being purchased for Blu-ray or gaming. 150,000 stand alone HD-D... |