Alright… so its a Venturer hd-dvd player… OK… yeah Everyone knows HD DVD did NOT WORK… it stopped… is no longer in production!!! BUT heres what IS good about one of these units ;-). You can step UP a regular dvd using this. In other words, if you put a regular DVD into this, it’ll work fine, and infact it will tryyyy and invent new pixels… in areas where it thinks pixels should be. And intern make it 1080p. So i’d say… eh… if you have the 50 bucks go for it… why not… 2 dvds plus an hd dvd player… meh… its not going to be amazing… i probably wouldn’t do it… but if you really want to then do it.
Wow, lots of comments getting deleted… please note though that the player only manages up to 1080i – fewer pixels to invent, true, but don’t buy it thinking you’re getting 1080p.
EXCELLENT PLAYER. The wannabe comedians can snicker, but there are tons of cheap HD DVDs out there that go nicely with this inexpensive unit. As a upconverting player, it also serves that purpose also.
You’ll probably have to update the firmware, but that’s not rocket science.
BluPay has nothing that interests me. That is unless I want to pay more and get less…
Yeah, basically. Personally, I’d hold out for a holiday-priced name-brand (I know Venturer’s not that poor a brand, but I’m talking higher-tiered) DVD player with HD upconverting. You’d probably be able to find it at the same price, if not lower, than this model. Sure, you don’t get the two HD-DVDs with it, but…meh, I own most of the available movies on DVD anyway, so for me it doesn’t really come in handy. shrug
I have this, it works great just like my hd-a3. You can’t buy any new releases on hd but i have been stocking up on my old favorites for an average of about 4$ a movie. Since buying my Venturer on woot last time i have since bought an hd-a3 off ebay for 30$ and about 40 of my favorite movies. On another note I love how everyone compares this to laserdisc and betamax, You know cause they were hd and all. Frys, border, deepdiscount, and inetvideo all have great deals on dvds. With this and a few discs you could get into hd dvd movies at less then the price of a blackfriday bluray player.