Easy mistake to make!

Well there I was in the retailers looking at the Acer 5920g with HD-DVD and I said to the guy "I will have it"
I had it 1 month then as I was looking in Nero info tool, I thought I would just check on the DVD drive to see what it was capable of. Shock, it said that it wasn't HD ready and couldn't play the HD-DVD. I was gutted, went in the attic to check on the box and there was the answer, the guy had mistakenly got me the ACER 5920G-302G25MI instead of the ACER ASP 5920G.041.
There are lots of 5920 models which look the same but have some differences, well, at least I had a months free usage of their machine lol, I now have a shiny new one with HD-DVD.

 

Lucky you checked in time

Agreed, specs can be confusing and mistakes are bound to happen.

Moral: Always check in time if you got what you paid for and everything works properly....

Cheers,
Theo

 

WOW! And i agree it is easy to mistake a make

 

Why do you want a laptop with a dead format anyway??

Why you didn't look to get something with Blu Ray?

 

Hi, I bought this laptop for its features and also the price was reduced by £100, the HD-DVD was just a bonus.

 

I see

 

and if you think it as a huge storage , it is not a big problem , dead or not , you can still save many photos or music in it.

if you bought it for movie .etc , then ?

any way, it's a good deal IMO.

 

If you do that it is going to be a MAJOR mistake that you going to regret very bad.

You have your HD DVD now in your laptop if you decide to make some HD DVD disks with your photos, music and videos, you will have access to them only from your today's laptop and no where else.

How long you going to have this laptop? Three? Four? Five years?
Then what? The HD DVD will disappear from the market very soon and then these HD DVDs you made is going to be nothing else than worthless.

Worthless disk with important data in it... The complete disaster.

DO NOT PUT IMPORTANT DATA ON HD DVD.

It reminds me of the days of VHS vs BetaMAX, you now how many people I know that they captured important moments on BetaMAX like weddings etc. and then they was trying out to transfer that data on VHS... was a real disaster.


My advice to all HD DVD users, have it only for READ ONLY. Do not use it as HD DVD burner. If you really need it for data back up unplug it and throw it to the garbage immediately. If you want high capacity disk storage for your important data, spent some extra money and get a Blu-Ray burner.

 

I don't think mine is a HD-DVD burner anyway, I think it just burns the usual DVD format according to Nero info tool.
Here you go.....

 

Oh , toshiba says it will support it 6 more years , so it is not a big deal.

However , I personally have no interest in Bluray or HD stuff since I dont care for movies..........I usually use external HDD as a storage for my photo works.......

And, I think I never said I have a HD-DVD , I dont buy Bluray or HD myself. But I was just saying if you already have it why worry about it and just use it for temporal storage won't hurt you.

I also careless for HDMI or DVI , I dont do these.

Any way, the Acer Aspire 6920G got reviewed.

http://www.notebookjournal.de/tests/472/1/top5

looks nice, it is very powerful and the LCD is one of the best out there, which it were 14.1.

 

Mine goes like this: