Hi,
I currently have a Philips DVR which looks like it is giving up the ghost.

I've been looking to upgrade to the Pioneer DVR-930H-S, which has a HDMI 
output (I've got a Pioneer Plasma, so thought this would be a good hook up).

But I'm not sure about next generation HD DVDs.  Will the Pioneer be able to 
play them?  I dont want to forl out £700 for something that will be need to 
be upgraded in a few months...

thanks

"Paul McLaughlin"  wrote in message 
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> Hi,
> I currently have a Philips DVR which looks like it is giving up the ghost.
>
> I've been looking to upgrade to the Pioneer DVR-930H-S, which has a HDMI 
> output (I've got a Pioneer Plasma, so thought this would be a good hook 
> up).
>
> But I'm not sure about next generation HD DVDs.  Will the Pioneer be able 
> to play them?  I dont want to forl out £700 for something that will be 
> need to be upgraded in a few months...
>
> thanks
>


nothing on the market can play HD dvds or blu rays.




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Paul McLaughlin wrote:
> Hi,
> I currently have a Philips DVR which looks like it is giving up the
> ghost.
>
> I've been looking to upgrade to the Pioneer DVR-930H-S, which has a
> HDMI output (I've got a Pioneer Plasma, so thought this would be a
> good hook up).
>
> But I'm not sure about next generation HD DVDs.  Will the Pioneer be
> able to play them?  I dont want to forl out £700 for something that
> will be need to be upgraded in a few months...
>
> thanks

Of course not! If you want to play HD DVDs you need an HD DVD player.

>nothing on the market can play HD dvds or blu rays.

HD DVD's and Blue Rays are "Trojan technology" that has more to do
with copy protection than any thing else.

"Paul McLaughlin"  wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I currently have a Philips DVR which looks like it is giving up the ghost.
>
> I've been looking to upgrade to the Pioneer DVR-930H-S, which has a HDMI
> output (I've got a Pioneer Plasma, so thought this would be a good hook
up).
>
> But I'm not sure about next generation HD DVDs.  Will the Pioneer be able
to
> play them?  I dont want to forl out £700 for something that will be need
to
> be upgraded in a few months...
>
> thanks
>
>
It wont need to be upgraded for a few years, cos thats about how long it
will take for either of the new formats to gain enough market share to where
you can walk into any rental store and they have BR or HD-DVD titles to
rent....

On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 10:04:05 +0000 (UTC), "Paul McLaughlin"
 wrote:

>Hi,
>I currently have a Philips DVR which looks like it is giving up the ghost.
>
>I've been looking to upgrade to the Pioneer DVR-930H-S, which has a HDMI 
>output (I've got a Pioneer Plasma, so thought this would be a good hook up).
>
>But I'm not sure about next generation HD DVDs.  Will the Pioneer be able to 
>play them?  I dont want to forl out £700 for something that will be need to 
>be upgraded in a few months...

My intuition informs me to wait on making a high end acquisition of a
DVD-HDD unit.

I expect the video entertainment industry to change radically over the
next few years. There is no reason that the major ISPs and/or major
cable providers can't work out some way to download videos for the
consumer to put on his hard disk and send to other computers/players
via a network. That effectively bypasses any need for DVDs.


-- 

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I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first."     
--Ronald Reagan

"Bob"  wrote in message 
news:43ef6626.68292937@news-server.houston.rr.com...
> On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 10:04:05 +0000 (UTC), "Paul McLaughlin"
>  wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>I currently have a Philips DVR which looks like it is giving up the ghost.
>>
>>I've been looking to upgrade to the Pioneer DVR-930H-S, which has a HDMI
>>output (I've got a Pioneer Plasma, so thought this would be a good hook 
>>up).
>>
>>But I'm not sure about next generation HD DVDs.  Will the Pioneer be able 
>>to
>>play them?  I dont want to forl out £700 for something that will be need 
>>to
>>be upgraded in a few months...
>
> My intuition informs me to wait on making a high end acquisition of a
> DVD-HDD unit.
>
> I expect the video entertainment industry to change radically over the
> next few years. There is no reason that the major ISPs and/or major
> cable providers can't work out some way to download videos for the
> consumer to put on his hard disk and send to other computers/players
> via a network. That effectively bypasses any need for DVDs.

Converging technologies are already with us in the shape of media PCs and I 
believe the future is going to something along the lines of multi-terabyte 
multi-tuner HD devices

Tricky

the dog from that film you saw wrote:

> 
> nothing on the market can play HD dvds or blu rays.
> 
> 
and when they do appear, their prices will be higher initially, there 
are likely to be teething problems with the early units, and quite 
possibly one format will eventually win over the other.

Pick the wrong format, and you have the expensive equivalent of the 
Betamax scenario.

On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 17:20:28 -0000, "Tricky Dicky"
 wrote:

>Converging technologies are already with us in the shape of media PCs and I 
>believe the future is going to something along the lines of multi-terabyte 
>multi-tuner HD devices

Throw in networking, Windows OS and DVDR interface for scheduling and
playing, and I am ready to buy one. Make the size of the hard disk
optional so I can network my source files on my computer drive.


-- 

"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession.
I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first."     
--Ronald Reagan

In rec.video.dvd.tech on Sun, 12 Feb 2006, Paul McLaughlin wrote :
>Hi,
>I currently have a Philips DVR which looks like it is giving up the ghost.

Join the club. :(
>
>But I'm not sure about next generation HD DVDs.  Will the Pioneer be able to 
>play them?  I dont want to forl out £700 for something that will be need to 
>be upgraded in a few months...

£700?! I wouldn't pay that much for a TV!

You can get DVD recorders for under £100 now, if all you want is a stop-
gap.
-- 
Paul 'Charts Fan' Hyett