The format war may be done and even though Blu-ray won, that doesn’t mean Toshiba is going to leave its early adopters stranded with unsupported devices and so, just released firmware 4.0 for its HD DVD players. It seems the update affects every Toshiba HD DVD player and owners will want to download this update via the built-in Ethernet port for improved disc playback, along with resuming play after being paused for a long time.
Isn’t it refreshing to see a CE company support products even though they aren’t produced or even needed anymore?
If I were Toshiba, I would dump all licensing fees and release every aspect of HD-DVD under GPL. I’d love to see BDA compete with ‘free’. At the very least, it might drag the prices of Blu-Ray players AND movies in to the realm of sensibility.
Amen to that. Frankly, wouldn’t it be great if someone with the skills, the tools and the necessary info, hacked, I mean, reverse-engineered, I mean… unleashed all the possibilities ;) these gorgeous, beefy machines are capable of? Just think of the potential: implementing support to play back HD DivX/Xvid/mkv, activating that USB2.0 port at the front so you could stream all sorts of stuff from a hard-drive or USB memory… Yikes, I almost drooled my laptop to a short-circuit just thinking of it.
See! This is just another justification for my reasoning, HD-DVD is rising it’s head from the bloody pool ready to make a victorious comeback, it’s going to sneak up like low capacity, more cost efficient, and more practical technology ninja and slit Sony’s throat! Watch!