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kris
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Post subject: Done with hd-dvd Posted: 21 Nov 2015, 12:20 |
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I gave it a lot of in the past few months and made my decision Sold all hd-dvd related gear just today. I have too much around formats wise. I am going to miss a few discs.... Blade Runner, I am Legend come to mind. Keeping the format around was getting a challenge. Players in good working condition are getting more rare. I find it easier to get my hands on a Ld player than finding a perfect HDDVD player. Being able to play dvd, Blu ray and in the future UHD BR on one machine convinced me on dumping the HD-DVD format. It's all fun collecting formats but at one point there's too much of everything. Holding on to the D-Theatre system for now but I might be compelled to sell that at one point.
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Post subject: Re: Done with hd-dvd Posted: 22 Nov 2015, 19:45 |
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it goes to prove my fears, that it simply does not pay to attempt to be a collector/enthusiast of modern HD Home Video formats, or pretty much anything CE related beyond the DVD age.
modern BRD discs seem rugged and made to last, but finding an operational player for them in 10 years, even a high-end reference model? seems more unlikely every day.
Enjoy and appreciate the quality and longevity of long-outmoded legacy SD formats and their related playback devices; the once technologically limited yet glorious era of Home Video that spawned them is dead and buried, and the world will likely never see another remotely like it.
appreciate what remains, and appreciate that it came from an age when CE firms actually took pride in their product, and often worked extremely hard to justify said pride to the end consumer that they clearly held some measure of respect for...
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kris
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Post subject: Re: Done with hd-dvd Posted: 22 Nov 2015, 20:45 |
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bguzman wrote: https://youtu.be/DgZIYdFmZqc
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kris
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Post subject: Re: Done with hd-dvd Posted: 22 Nov 2015, 20:51 |
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Managed to get some money for all of it not an easy thing to do I must add Ordered the replacement blu ray copies trough various websites online. Been searching the internet all night to get the best deal on numerous titles delivered at my doorstep. Would like to find a nice "I am Legend" release.... Any ideas on what is the best out there? Liked the hddvd very much but since it was/is a Warner edition not the best title to own on HD-DVD (was error free btw.) for now.... I want one with both endings....
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kris
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Post subject: Re: Done with hd-dvd Posted: 04 Jan 2016, 21:41 |
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Sorry to hear about the frozen player. Sounds familiar to be honnest Had a few regular dvd's that froze during playback. That's what I hated about the players. They are unreliable. Only one that gave me the least problem was my HD-XA1 The fact that support or knowledge about the players are slim to none made me sell it all. I don't miss my hddvd's. I'm happy it's all gone. I don't miss is this movie going to play until the end?
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laserdisc_fan
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Post subject: Re: Done with hd-dvd Posted: 04 Jan 2016, 22:19 |
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kris wrote: I don't miss my hddvd's. I'm happy it's all gone. I don't miss is this movie going to play until the end? Nothing worse than an digital picture lockup with a big screech that nearly blows your speakers. Even an old worn out VHS with flickers and dropouts would be a king to that. Usually the only discs you encounter that on are bootleg DVDs badly recorded using really low quality defective media.
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Post subject: Re: Done with hd-dvd Posted: 06 Jan 2016, 10:56 |
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ace2184 wrote: Sadly I think it's done for. It won't load past the "Welcome" screen now. Online searches show sending it to Toshiba for repairs, I imagine that's not viable anymore I have the same problem on my XE1, and I work around it like this: Switch on the Player - "WELCOME" and nothing else is happening (for a while). After a few minutes an error code will be displayed, for me it is "2007C023". So then I shut down the player by keeping the front power button pressed for about 10 seconds. The moment it shuts down (color changes from blue to red), I press the power button again to switch it on. This time player boots normally and works perfectly. From what I remember it was called the "WELCOME Bug" and was *NOT* fixable. Player had to be sent to Toshiba to be swapped against a new/or refurbished one. Maybe you can try if this trick works for you, too.
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Post subject: Re: Done with hd-dvd Posted: 07 Mar 2016, 01:05 |
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kris wrote: I have too much around formats wise. I am going to miss a few discs.... Blade Runner, I am Legend come to mind.
I remember reading the Blu-Ray of Blade Runner released around that time (in the US at least) used the exact same data as the HD-DVD...
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Post subject: Re: Done with hd-dvd Posted: 07 Mar 2016, 01:14 |
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happycube wrote: kris wrote: I have too much around formats wise. I am going to miss a few discs.... Blade Runner, I am Legend come to mind.
I remember reading the Blu-Ray of Blade Runner released around that time (in the US at least) used the exact same data as the HD-DVD... Studios that released both HD-DVD and Blu-ray optimized their mastering for the HD-DVD's 30GB limit(BD is 50GB). They typically used the same data. What's very interesting is those HD-DVDs used Dolby Digital Plus at 1.5mbps whereas the BD version got regular Dolby Digital at 640kbps. Space is certainly not an issue of BD over HD and DD+ is a supported format, I don't know why they opted for lesser bitrate. Blade Runner discs are bit identical. There is a second BD release which uses the same video but different audio codec though. It's just the red cases fits better with some cover art such as 300, Invasion, Forbidden Planet, Blade Runner.
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kris
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Post subject: Re: Done with hd-dvd Posted: 07 Mar 2016, 18:28 |
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ace2184 wrote: Well my love affair with HD-DVD was a short one. It started off so good, but between only playing DVDs via component, the HDMI would freeze it up, and none of HD-DVDs working, I realized it was done. I kept two movies that were combo packs that I liked and boxed up the player and discs and donated it all to a local thrift store. It was fun while it lasted. Sounds very familiar. it's sad to see all players crash so fast. When I think about my LD player(s) going strong even 20 years later... Toshiba should be ashamed for selling technology that can't be trusted. I mean, they knew there was a problem with discs and players very early at the start of the format war. Warner never did anything in Europe to replace defective discs.... Mailed them several times about the issue. I would have loved keeping my hddvd's around but again I can't see why one would hold on to an uplayable format Anyway, Lesson learned
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kris
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Post subject: Re: Done with hd-dvd Posted: 08 Mar 2016, 19:43 |
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laserbite34 wrote: kris,
When you say "crash" yeah know precisely what you mean. LD, if it had even a bit of dirt or something stuck to the side playing that eluded you when loading it up and it shows in playback I know what it is and yet don't bother to much as the film just carries on playing flawlessly, unless it was serious bad laserrot in which case I won't bother playing the disc. If it was any dirt or scratches on DVD/HD-DVD/bluray it would often always pixel or freeze and if I can keep my cool without grabbing the player and tossing across the room at a wall!
Also the smaller discs suck at load up time. LD plays the film unless of course in the invent of system failure, LD starts up and plays the fastest as I could be watching paint drying on the wall with bluray that is the worst load up time in history! Like to think of my LD like I do for records. They spin or they don't no strange happenings during playback, no freezing near the end, no error codes upon loading. Regarding BR loading times... I find most of them to be faster these days. I "upgraded" to a cheap Panasonic DMP-bdt361 for the time being and it isn't sluggisch in any way! It proved to be a good buy for those few cents it costs. Only one that needs time is Avatar DC ... extends the running time another 5 minutes Then again, nothing like the LD loading time.
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