RCA HDV5000

Another HD-DVD player will be on store shelves soon.

After Toshiba’s first desktop HD-DVD player has been available for purchase in the U.S. for days (probably the first shipment has run out), now another manufacturer has announced that a similar product will be available soon. The RCA brand is unlikely to be well known at home and is not at the forefront overseas.

According to a US online store, we can expect the HDV18 to hit the store by May 5000, but pre-orders are already being made for $ 500, which is exactly the same as Toshiba's HD-A1 price tag, so it's pretty obvious that the Japanese manufacturer wants to break the laurels of RCA, question , with a chance, as it does not offer any additional services at the same price - let 's not talk about the brand name now.

All the details have not yet been revealed about the specifications, but there are a few things we can say for sure: it will be able to cope with CD, DVD and HD-DVD discs, and in the case of DVD-Video, upscaling is also provided. It has 5.1 analog audio output - another question of what codecs will be in the device - as well as an HDMI connection for digital audio-video streams. Interestingly, we can also find an Ethernet connector on the back - according to unconfirmed information, this is also true for the HD-A1 - with the help of which we can get extra services.

It may definitely benefit from the proliferation of new players that more multi-channel HD-DVDs were released in America this week for as little as $ 30-35, and let’s not forget that HDTV-capable displays are also getting cheaper. We are curious to see what he will do about this. a month and a half later, the BDA (Blu-ray Disc Association) counter-camp.