HD DVD playback problems continue....
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Mon Apr 02, 2007 1:04 pmby dolphinius_rex
So what's with all these HD DVD playback issues lately?
http://www.cdrlabs.com/news/byte/4821 and
http://www.cdrlabs.com/news/byte/4818
It seems to be disc specific and not so much player specific, at least according to some of the reports I've read... although it seems certain players are more problamatic then others also.
I'd hate to be an HD DVD supporter right about now!
Posted:
Mon Apr 02, 2007 1:07 pmby Ian
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Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:29 pmby dolphinius_rex
They've got a poll going on AVS Forums:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=828337
And here is a thread discussing the problems some people are having:
http://forums.highdefdigest.com/showthread.php?t=5337
It doesn't seem to be a majority of people, but it's still a much larger amount of people then you would expect from a regular failure rate.
Posted:
Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:29 pmby Grain
Couple possibilities jump to mind, could be related to the combo disc format, or some new copyright feature that's gone awry. I haven't seen if anyone has looked into firmware versions of set top players either.
Posted:
Wed Apr 04, 2007 2:34 pmby dolphinius_rex
Some more theories about why some HD DVD discs are having playback problems:
http://www.cdrlabs.com/news/byte/4826
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Thu Apr 05, 2007 4:58 pmby Ian
Apparently Microsoft has released an update for the Xbox's HD DVD player. Has anyone heard if it fixed these problems?
http://www.dailytech.com/Update+for+Xbo ... le6806.htm
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Thu Apr 05, 2007 6:22 pmby Wesociety
Ian wrote:Apparently Microsoft has released an update for the Xbox's HD DVD player. Has anyone heard if it fixed these problems?
If it does fix the problems, that is some darn quick response time from the Xbox 350 HD DVD team!
