Sub-$200 Toshiba HD DVD deck pricing is contagious
It seems that Wal*Mart is not the only source for sub-$200 Toshiba HD DVD players. Not to be outdone by Wal*Mart’s $198 HD-A2 pricing, Circuit City is pricing the HD-A2 at $197.99. Ars Technica reports that Best Buy is also planning a price cut. It is still $229.98 at Amazon
Via EngadgetHD.
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October 29th, 2007 at 15:21
The only problem is, it’s not very good. Puting aside the awful load time, things
like pausing, FFing, Rewinding, Unpausing etc all have awful latency. Also, the we-connection stuff is flakey
and updating the hardware over the net is totally hit or miss. Toshiba worked hard to get a player in at this
price point, and the result was a series of conpromises. I’m a blu-ray fan, though I did buy this player
for those films that are not out on Blu - and I would say buy the next model up - this just does not have
the juice to make your HD experience very pleasant. I don’t really care about te 1080i, since my TV
does a decent job of deinterlacing, but the latency is just awful.
October 29th, 2007 at 16:34
It is definitely a budget unit, and the only reason they’re selling it so cheap is that it is out of date with the third generation boxes already out.