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Europe will have to wait for Blu-Ray
At a
briefing in Germany, Pioneer said it has no concrete plans for a European
launch and admitted that it will have nothing to show consumers until at least
January 2007, at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. 
However,
Toshiba, developer of the rival HD DVD technology, said that it will have
dedicated players ready for launch at the Berlin show.
Both technologies have
suffered setbacks but at least HD DVD players are available in the US and
Japan, even if they are hard to get hold of. The Blu-Ray camp have been
operating at snail’s pace and will be relying on the forthcoming launch of
Sony’s PS3 console to rocket Blu-Ray technology into pole position. More
UK Post: I'm new to all this HD stuff, but I really want to see a better picture quality - after suffering the World Cup games from standard Sky TV output. The grass looked like the weeds at the bottom of a stream, all blurred and wavy. Nothing sharp or crisp through my good old sky box. Is HD better quality so you can see the difference, or do you still have to put up with the same compression that makes the picture look so furry? I took a quick look at some hd tv sites on google like www.hdtvexpert.co.uk. They reckon HD is 4 times better than like Sky, but I probably won't be able to afford that for a while. The box costs so much, and even if it is better, am I going to be wasting (beer) money if the picture is so compressed that it looks like a poster?
Posted by: fruitier | July 11, 2006 12:11 AM