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...mentioned in the magazine a few weeks back, HD DVD is here. I'm not just taking the word of the people at Toshiba, NBC Universal and Warner Home Video, either. I have experienced it first-hand, by connecting the HD-A1 player to a 42-inch plasma TV and a 5.1 surround-sound speaker system. When I compared the HD DVD of last year's sci-fi cult film Serenity with its DVD, the difference was powerful. I called my wife in as a witness, and she immediately noticed the richer detail and deeper color. That's just...
...like to be able to tell you that that's the end of it - that you should rejoice and go get an HD DVD player, and be done with it. A handful of movies from Universal and Warner are already for sale, including Swordfish, The Last Samurai, Million Dollar Baby, Phantom of the Opera, Apollo 13, GoodFellas, Doom and the aforementioned Serenity. More are on the way - by the end of June, once Paramount joins in, there should be about 40 titles in stores. Most titles slated for release are either full of action or artistically shot (or both), capitalizing...
...while Warner and Paramount plan to launch titles in both. But it isn't as easy as simply waiting for Blu-ray either: the initial players, expected in July or August, will list for $1,000 or more, as opposed to the $500 list price for Toshiba's first HD DVD player...
...understand why people are excited about this phenomenon. However, as the migration to high-definition TVs and cable boxes speeds up, these products must evolve fast. I made the mistake of trying to play an HD broadcast, and everything froze. It's a paradox, because the earliest of adopters probably already watch a lot of HDTV. To put it bluntly: if you're recording the current season of Sopranos or 24 on a high-def cable DVR, you'll have to record it simultaneously in standard definition to watch it on Sony's LocationFree TV or the snazzier Slingbox from...
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