More likely than not, I believe it was probably delayed to implement some further copy protection/DRM schemes.
At almost 3500 dollars U.S. who the hell could afford one anyway, other than maybe corporate customers who need the high storage capabilities.

"there isn't enough inventory to keep up with their launch quota. "


we dont have enough parts to build 5 working machines muc less the boss's launch quota....

it almsot reminds me of the PS3 we have enough parts to make 50 machines but wee need to make 5000 *L*
why not ffset the frist gen of it and sell them at a grand a pop untill you have stock built up? *L*

1TB HD-DVD? Huh?

max777
its a DVR,Didgtal VIdeo recorder with 1TB of HD space.

1TB is 1000GB I think *L*

Oh sign me up, send me 5 plus some hd dvd blank discs. Money just hit me in the a## and I want to spend it all on ignorance in the world. There quota is probably every movie star and professional athlete that can afford these products.

It seems to me that it would be launched just in Japan... it never mentioned beng brought to america... even less to south america... here we always get technology when it is rather old... however, i wouldnt be able to afford a 3500 U$S HD-DVD player...

zippyDSM
you're right 1TB == 1000 GB

come on guys/gals, new technologies are always expensive when they come out. But if it wasn't for companies trying to push the envelope of technology, then we'd still have Kay-Pros. Besides, who do you think is going to buy these, individuals, PLZ don't make me laugh. My company would be the first. We have 7 DB servers with 300GB hard drives in them. And every 4 months, we unload all the data on them to a RAID. The RAID we use costs $8000. Now, if we buy this, we're saving some serious $cha-ching (which means more $ for me) :)

As far as not having enough...uh technologies change, usually for the better. So, what they thought they were going to put out this July, was obsolete (or just crappy) by the time july 1 rolled around.

And, sorry ZIppyDSM, this really isn't the same as the PS3. Sony's had a while to start making those overpriced GPUs. Remember, the PS3 just reads discs. This one is having to actually burn them, successfully.

The first DVD recorders that hit the Japanese market in 1999 were US$2500 to US$4000.

kearney
funny I thought the PS3 was haveing production issues with capaitors or soemthing :P
deleys are deleys after all,altho in all I wonder them put it off 6 or so months and have a full less buggy system

err wiat its diode's *L*
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7734.cfm

my point being they cant make enouhg to fill thier qouta ,but they will in time cant wait to watch the launch drama ^^

ZIppyDSM
OH, sorry, I didn't know what the problem was with the PS3. I've just been hearing that the PS3 has been having Blu-ray Disc problems, but I didn't know what the hold up was.

never mind , I was wrong in my statement, you were right, it is the same thing. :) Guess I should start reading AfterDawn more LOL

actually 1 terabyte is 1024 gigabytes. just keeping you right lol.

kearney
is cool ,with all the fanboys on each side better to flame frist god knows you dont want to be biten by one 0_o
(if fanboys were like werewolfs only geekier) LOL


backupguy
and with NTSF or fat32 formatings you get a reduction of 10-20%? *L*

8 bit = 1 byte (each bit is either 1 or 0)
1024 bytes = 1 KB
1024 KB = 1 MB
1024 MB = 1GB
1024 GB = 1 TB
1024 TB = 1 PB (PETABYTE)
1024 PB = 1 EB (EXABYTE)
1024 EB = 1 ZB (ZETTABYTE)
1024 ZB = 1 YB (YOTTABYTE)

actually there are both decimal and binary units, i mean 1000 MB is the same as 1 decimal GB. And there are also other less commonly used units based on bit instead of bytes... they would Kbit, Mbit... for example 8 Mbit = 1 MB
Just some data for those interested...
Having a couple of yottabytes sounds like quite a drive... maybe in a couple of years time we will be needing to add some new units bigger than this YB...

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