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Guess I get a Blu-Ray player when the Truly Ultimate James Bond set comes out

Is that the box set that'll be coming out just before the Mega Ultimate James Bond set a year later? 

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Looking at the price tag and the specs for the company's forthcoming DV-HD805 HD DVD player (view the full press release here), it seems Onkyo plans to continue in that tradition. Priced at $899, the company says its new HD DVD player was designed as a companion piece to its 2007 line of high-end audio receivers.

As such, the deck will be one of the first HD DVD players to stream all high-resolution audio formats via HDMI version 1.3a, including Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD Lossless Master Audio and uncompressed PCM, as well as standard Dolby Digital-Plus and DTS-HD High-Resolution Audio.

The DV-HD805 will also be capable of native 1080p/24 frames-per-second video playback, and support web-enabled network connectivity per the HD DVD spec, allowing for new and unique content such as additional online supplemental materials and bonus features.

Finally, the manufacturer is touting the player's built-in HQV Reon VX video processor, which promises to deliver exceptionally precise video scaling, regardless of the resolution of your discs and/or display device

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Denon recently announced plans to launch its own similarly featured Blu-ray player, at the whopping price of $1,999."

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AUG. 10 | Some consumer electronics retailers see the sales gap closing between set-top HD DVD players and Blu-ray Disc players as the two formats have come closer in price.

At Ultimate Electronics and Abt Electronics, Toshiba’s second-generation players are still the best-selling individual models, but collectively, Blu-ray players have been outselling HD DVD Toshiba models in recent weeks.

At Ultimate, the shift began in June when Sony rolled out Blu-ray’s cheapest set-top player to date, the $499 BDP-S300. Ultimate also carries second-generation Samsung and Pioneer Blu-ray models.

“It’s a slight lead, not a huge margin, but we expected this to happen as [Ultimate] is selling three HD DVD players, versus five Blu-ray players. There is a depth point of view now,” said Matt Duda, Ultimate director of merchandising for video. “But there is no single Blu-ray player overtaking Toshiba’s models.”

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Pretty good week for HD DVD, selling 1:2 of 300 against BD's massive PS3 user base, and outselling BD on all 2-5 ranked titles. Nice work for a "dead" format. 

Although the numbers are still pityfully small for both formats... 

The other thing I noticed is the 'Since Inception' percentage seems to have stabalized.  I could be mistaken but it sure seems like it has been 60:40 for a while now.  It strikes me as funny that, with all the studio support Blu-ray has, HD can still claim 40% of the HD market. 

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.... There's plenty of material to enjoy whatever system you choose.

Of course, getting a combo player might be ideal, but their price/performance aren't quite there yet...

There are ten discs available in Blu-ray that interest me, and thirteen discs available in HD DVD which I'd like to own, for a grand total of eighteen discs of either format (five are available in both formats)... The vast majority of standard DVDs I own which could be replaced by either HD DVD or Blu-ray discs are ones given to me, or that I bought, watched once and expect never to watch again (but saved the higher cost of everyone seeing it in a theater).

So I'm to spend a thousand bucks or more (a player for each format plus the cost of the discs) to see 18 films (that I already own on DVD) in HD? Not exactly "plenty of material" in my view.