Walmarts
01-08-2005, 15:28
In protest of Toshiba's announcement that your HDTV must require the connection HDMI to recieve all High Defintion signals, Walmarts bans the HD-DVD in hopes that Toshiba will rethink this.
In Toshiba's statement, it is said that your HDTV MUST have HDMI to be able to watch HD-DVD movies in HD. Component, wich is the only Analog connection to recieve and send HD signals, will not be able to send and recieve HD signals on HD-DVD. That means the HD signal will be downconverted from 480p,720p or 1080i to 480i wich is the format non HD TVs use. Wich means that you will not be able to watch true HD movies in HD as the signal will be downconverted to 480i.
The president of Walmarts says "Most HDTVs in this country do NOT have the HDMI input......wich many people will have to buy new HDTVs wether their current TV is old OR new" He goes on to say "this will cost customers thousands of dollars"
Toshiba said that they are doing this to prevent piracy of movies as the HDMI is a secure connection that you cannot record from. This also means that DVD Recorders will be useless and HD-DVD Recorders are not possible. Companies cannot create HDMI to Component converters as in order to do that, you need to break the HDMI security wich is illegal.
"there are other ways to stop piracy" President Josh Waitzkin says. "This will hurt the consumer just as much as it hurts pirates"
President Josh Waitzkin says "we ask that other countries ban HD-DVD also so it will tell Toshiba that it is the wrong way to stop piracy" Waitzkin continues, "we will support DVD ONLY until Toshiba can find other ways that will not hurt consumers to fix piracy"
So, Waitzkin asks other countries to Ban HD-DVD. This will hurt your countries also, as HDMI is a new format and is not in a ton of HDTVs. This will hurt DVD Recorders and stop HD-DVD Recorders from being made wich will hurt your economies as DVD Recorders are popular.
Waitzkin has put the Ban into Law yesterday morning.
In Toshiba's statement, it is said that your HDTV MUST have HDMI to be able to watch HD-DVD movies in HD. Component, wich is the only Analog connection to recieve and send HD signals, will not be able to send and recieve HD signals on HD-DVD. That means the HD signal will be downconverted from 480p,720p or 1080i to 480i wich is the format non HD TVs use. Wich means that you will not be able to watch true HD movies in HD as the signal will be downconverted to 480i.
The president of Walmarts says "Most HDTVs in this country do NOT have the HDMI input......wich many people will have to buy new HDTVs wether their current TV is old OR new" He goes on to say "this will cost customers thousands of dollars"
Toshiba said that they are doing this to prevent piracy of movies as the HDMI is a secure connection that you cannot record from. This also means that DVD Recorders will be useless and HD-DVD Recorders are not possible. Companies cannot create HDMI to Component converters as in order to do that, you need to break the HDMI security wich is illegal.
"there are other ways to stop piracy" President Josh Waitzkin says. "This will hurt the consumer just as much as it hurts pirates"
President Josh Waitzkin says "we ask that other countries ban HD-DVD also so it will tell Toshiba that it is the wrong way to stop piracy" Waitzkin continues, "we will support DVD ONLY until Toshiba can find other ways that will not hurt consumers to fix piracy"
So, Waitzkin asks other countries to Ban HD-DVD. This will hurt your countries also, as HDMI is a new format and is not in a ton of HDTVs. This will hurt DVD Recorders and stop HD-DVD Recorders from being made wich will hurt your economies as DVD Recorders are popular.
Waitzkin has put the Ban into Law yesterday morning.