Firmware Update For Toshiba HD DVD players

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The high-definition format war seems to be swinging in the direction for the Blu-ray camp, and you will see, Toshiba, which are not friendly to this. Because they want to preserve their own HD-DVD format and have a salvo fired in return by offering a series of new movie titles, the Internet connectivity support, which can be second-generation HD DVD players. The first of these titles would be the Japanese animated film, freedom, which was released last week. Do not get too excited, though, as only freedom allows you an additional movie trailers, a change of menu styles and different subtitles, where the networked HD-DVD player will receive all this information from an online content server .

Like Frank Miller’s dark and bloody 300, the HD-DVD version will be published at the end of this month and see how premiums more than freedom. Viewers get a strategy game to begin, as well as the ability to re-edit the film in a different sequence, which was later uploaded to a server hosted by Warner Bros. itself. Blood Diamond starring pretty boy Leonardo DiCaprio comes tomorrow, and offers an online survey as part of the special features.

Sounds pretty much like a gimmick to me, and you are in a position to access all of this new film’s title and a second-generation HD-DVD player. Apparently, Toshiba will this firmware upgrade for existing HD-DVD players, but I am not sure how much space is required for all of these functions added. Make sure your Internet connection is fast enough to always with the extra-high-definition content. What do you think of this interactive downloadable content? Will it actually swing more players on the HD-DVD camp, or will the people continue to be a wait-and-see attitude, as the Blu-ray also supports such interactivity? I say play safe and stick to DVDs for the moment, until the dust settles, or get a decent dual-format high-definition DVD player.

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March 10, 2008 | Filed Under Audio / Video Player, HD Dvd Player 

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