HD-DVD Burners?

[Scott M]

Does anyone know of one available for purchase anywhere?

Seen some Blu-Ray burners, but no HD-DVD...

[Häakon]

There are two models available only in Japan, to my knowledge. What's funny is that even without drives on the shelves, I have seen blank HD DVD media in a few scattered places like Fry's Electronics.

Blu-ray is the much better bet as burners are not only much more available but the capacity is 40% larger - meaning more room for data storage or the potential for less compression in your playable video.

[Tom Lowe]

This is a travesty that they have not put out HD-DVD burners and players for PCs. Who is running this operation, Captain Kangaroo?

[Gavin Greenwalt]

If it's short form video you want to burn I think you can burn the HD-DVD formatting onto a normal DVD-R and it should playback.

[John Tissavary]

This is a travesty that they have not put out HD-DVD burners and players for PCs. Who is running this operation, Captain Kangaroo?

I have the nagging suspicion that this is an attempt by the HD-DVD consortium members to delay the flood of pirated discs that'll surely hit the streets when burners become available.

The disparity between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD burners at the consumer level is definitely curious & annoying.

sigh... long live the format wars...

cheers,

jt

[Gavin Greenwalt]

It's also somewhat logical.

HD-DVDs look imo just as good as Blu-Ray. But if you want a burner it's probably for data. In that regard Blu-Ray smokes HD-DVD.

Pushing HD-DVD as a data format and not just a movie format seems like it would be a pretty uphill battle.

[Scott M]

It'd just be nice considering the HD-DVD option currently built-in to DVD Studio Pro. We've tried burning HD-DVD encodes onto the DVD-R as mentioned and it does work fine, but it'd be nice to have the ability to produce a full length HD-DVD, it is an odd maneuver on Toshiba's part to delay...

[Frank Mirbach]

Why would you go for a HD DVD burner ? Wouldn´t it be better to go for Blue Ray ? I mean, it´s got way more capacity...

[Greg M]

maybe because HD-DVD players are far cheaper.

[albert rudnicki]

I've looked at the local Best Buy thinking to get a HD DVD for Holidays. No big bargains here, the cheapest I found was $299 for a HD-DVD.
The PSP3 was $379 ($80 more).
Personally I would go for Blue ray, the quality/format is the same, but the capacity is double, it'll pay off in the long run.