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Toshiba’s and Wal Mart’s campaign to sell entry-level HD DVD players for as low as $198 may not be limited only to the particular retail stores chain, but may turn out to be a regular price-cut with huge publicity. If this assumption is correct, then HD DVD format will get a strong boost in the U.S. this holiday season.

Currently Circuit City, an online shop and a big chain of retail stores, lists Toshiba HD-A2 on its web-site for $197.99, or $0.01 less compared to the price at Wal Mart. Meanwhile, Best Buy, another retail giant that also runs online store, lists Toshiba HD-A2 and Toshiba HD-A20 for $299 and $399 as “sold out”, which may be an indicator that the company is gearing up to start selling them at considerably lower price-points. Additionally, some other online stores have started to list Toshiba’s low-cost HD DVD player at $199 and below.

Toshiba HD-A2 is an entry-level HD DVD player capable of HD DVD, DVD and CD playback as well as hardware decoding of H.264 (MPEG4 AVC), VC-1 and MPEG2 (standard DVD) streams. Additionally, the player features Sharc DSP to process audio in Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD (2 channel), DTS and DTS-HD formats. The player can output video in 720p (1280x720) and 1080i (1920x1080) resolutions using HDMI or component interconnection and multi-channel audio using HDMI or S/PDIF connectors.

Late last week Wal Mart announced plans to start selling Toshiba HD-A2 player at $198, which was considered as a good news for the whole HD DVD camp. Now it looks like that Toshiba decided to cut the price of the player by $100 for this holiday season.

Even though earlier Toshiba HD-A2 players cost $299 before and numerous stores bundled five HD DVD movies with them, meaning that the value of the whole package was no less than the value of the player now, low-cost HD DVD players can attract attention of the masses to high-definition video. Unfortunately, given that HD DVDs still cost more than typical DVDs, the former will still attract more advanced buyers, who know what high-definition actually is.

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And, don't forget that Sears will have the HD-A3 at $170 on Black Friday as an early bird item. Seeing that has almost made me stop looking at HD players for a while and wait...
[Posted by: TheMatt  | Date: 10/30/07 09:43:10 AM]

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Is the HD war ever going to come to an end?
Actually I don't care. I torrent most of my shows anyways, and have my laptop hooked up to the tv. I can already download 720p movies just fine.
1080p is a bit large for the file sizes though.
[Posted by: 31415  | Date: 10/31/07 01:34:19 PM]

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black friday at wal-mart get an A2 for $99....

[Posted by: too much bs...  | Date: 10/31/07 09:17:38 PM]

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The first Black Friday of the season is tomorrow, November 2nd at Wal-Mart. $198 is a good price but tomorrow's one day only price of $99 is incredible. Be there by 8:00 AM or you're going to miss out.

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[Posted by: Kevin G.  | Date: 11/01/07 01:32:40 PM]

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