We have already seen competing format Blu-ray's PC hardware selling at RM2999 and most recently $2499 at Low Yat. Now Asus introduces HD DVD PC drive. With the XBox add on - external HD DVD drive for PC selling at less than RM1000. I wonder how more cheaper can this Asus baby be


http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/11/0...t_hd_dvd_drive/



The HR-0205T is a read-only unit that can handled single- and dual-layer HD DVD media, and single-layer HD DVD-R discs, all at 2.4x. It'll also read all the many DVD formats at 5x and CD media at 15x.

Unsatisfied with the drive's inability to burn discs? Then Asus offered the fact that it emits just 21.1dB of noise when playing HD DVDs, though it goes up to 23.7dB when it's spinning a dual-layer DVD. For comparison, both are less than a typical notebook hard drive's operational 26dB.

Asus said the HR-0205T can be mounted horizontally or vertically. The drive connects to a parallel ATA port, but an PATA-SATA adaptor allows it to be hooked up to the more up to date, serial bus.

RM2K plus for a optical rom. like it or not main stream consumer have NOT interested what so ever in 15g or 25g recordable media. 4.7 is more than enough. If consumers want more bytes, double layer DVD would have already been extremely mainstream by now (10 years after its introduction) yet we are still looking at RM0.70 single layer DVD vs RM13 double layer dvd

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Added on November 7, 2007, 7:20 amnope all the bits and byte looks fancier on BD spec sheet than HD DVD spec sheet. but they we look at the end result. Get a RM700 XBox 360 add on and a RM2999 Pioneer or Sony Blu-ray drive, play 300 on your 24in HDMI screen and see if you can spot the different. And now take into consideration that the cheaper HD DVD has MUCH MORE features - can download directly from website to HD DVD player, out of this world's advanced interactive features as compared to Blu-ray slight upgrade to DVD style menu .. and make up your mind again.

This post has been edited by g5sim: Nov 7 2007, 07:20 AM

Paramount and Dreamworks - a month after that, Paramount launched Transformers in hidefinition and the title became the best selling hidef title of all time. selling 190,000 copies in its first week. And who cares when they are 5mil over PS3s out there when 500,000 HD DVD hardwares are capable of setting hidefinition record

yeah - pioneer has already launched their Blu-ray PC drive (not a writer) - $399 only

dunno yet - checked the price list - nothing tried to contact asus malaysia - dun even have an email address lol

damn - i want Wal-mart in malaysia - we already have Circuit City here you know HSL Circuit City that is

muahhaha found the official listing on Asus Malaysia:

http://my.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=6&l2=1...975&modelmenu=1



anyhow - someone is bulking the HD DVD player Toshiba HD A3 at only RM1,250 NETT (inclusive of shipping from USA and 25% custom duty)

http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopi...&#entry14247960

This post has been edited by g5sim: Dec 1 2007, 11:22 PM

still bosiah. not listed in any of the pricelist . few months after launch already. still no body selling . sigh