Well, the announcement has been made. Chinese players will soon hit Wal-Mart @ about $149. At least that is the price everyone is guessing.
Venturer is a Canadian company, but these like all the Toshiba HD DVD players and some BD players (including the PS3) are manufactured in China. Wal-Mart does offer many Venturer products but there has been no official anouncement.
That means that BD will have gone close to 2 years before actually getting a full spec player into the marketplace.
and how long before there is a full featured HD DVD player? even Toshibas 3d generation that is not out yet don't fully support everything HD DVD has in the books, so it will most likely not be before the 4th generation (considering that there are no other original designs out there)
Yes, the Java implementation seems to be a flop for sure.
if that is a problem then you must not have bought any HD DVDs considering there have been a few that have required FW upgrades on the players, there are even some that need to be boiled in order to work.
