Comments on: Catching Up on the March HD DVD News

By: labomba

labomba — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:46:42 +0000

I went in to Circuit City yesterday as they have 50% off of their HD DVDs, excluding Beowulf and Shrek the 3rd. It will run until April 5th. I had tried to be “bestfriends” with the staff and manager but my charm didn’t work to get a bargain for $9.99. I still bought three HD DVD movies but I will wait until the 4th or the 5th as they may lower it more down just like what Best Buy did this past week when they get rid of their HD DVDs. Also, Circuit City online is still selling the A3 for $99.99 and A30 for $129.99. If you are in a look to stock up on HD DVD players, these are two good deals but you better not wait to long as you never know on when they’re going out. Amazon and eBay are still pricey, especially Amazon.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:40:41 +0000

I have a Hi-Def audio question, lets see if I can make sense here. I just bought Top Gun on HD-DVD. It has TrueHD, DD+ and 6.1 DTS es. My reciever doesn’t decode TrueHD and DD+. Correct me if Im wrong, aren’t the Hidef audio formats decoded down to regular Dolby Digital 5.1. So if I setup the movie to DD+, it gets decoded down to Dolby Digital 5.1. Well why does this setting sound better then 6.1 DTS es. Help me out if you can. Thank you.

By: Rick

Rick — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:42:41 +0000

nevermind, I’m good, found my orginal, thank God counting down the minutes here!

By: Rick

Rick — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:33:55 +0000

The look and sound of perfect site is gone, anybody have a good link for the five free deal?

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 04:21:50 +0000

I jump on the HD DVD bandwagon shortly after the Toshiba announcement and I have not regretted it. Pick up an A3 on Ebay and already have 23 movies. It’s my introduction to high def. I also went ahead and bought the LG combo player (HD DVD/BD) for PC (I get it on Tuesday) – so now I have a back up HD player and can play Blu Ray if I want on my 24″ LCD monitor (HDCP compliment via DVI Link) on my newly custom built quad core (woohoo). Plan on buying Cyberlink as that is probably the best software out there to play high def on computer (although I will keep my eye on Nero) and I am all set. I never really paid attention to the difference between SD and HD when watching movies and boy what a difference. This will be my high def solution until blu ray prices become way more affordable, prices on movies get respectable and they square up the whole profile crap (not too mention that Sony may have material supply problems over the next 12 months) so for me this is a great way to enjoy HD for the next year or so.

By: labomba

labomba — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 04:19:38 +0000

Also, do not forget that if you have not mailed in your 5 Free movie rebate from Toshiba and Microsoft, please mail it no later than this Monday, March 31st. It needs to be post dated by March 31st in order to be eligible for the movie rebate.

By: labomba

labomba — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 04:18:05 +0000

I just checked several Best Buy stores and all HD DVDs are gone and sent out to their distributors. I checked on Circuit City as I have heard from other HD forum sites that this coming Sunday, March 30th, they will have 50% off of their HD DVD movies. I saw that they have all their HD DVDs and their employees have confirmed tomorrow’s sale. I will be there at their opening time to get ahead of the game. I may come back a couple of hours before they close to check and see if they will pull $9.99 deal like what Best Buy did this past Tuesday night. If you are also looking at stacking another HD DVD player, Circuit City is selling their A30 for 140 bucks. Don’t forget that Toshiba is pulling out their players by the end of this month so stack up while it is still affordable. I’m seriously thinking of getting one.

By: Holmes

Holmes — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:49:14 +0000

Well supplies on retail shelves seem to be drying up as we speak. Best Buy has sent their store stock back to distribution centers for internet sales. I suspect that we should be able to get most titles for several months to say the lease. It is a good idea to get a back up player to guard against your primary system going down. If you have an Xbox the cheapest way is the add on HDDVD drive. I have seen them as low as $25 now and purchased two units myself. Some of the exclusives on HDDVD such as Forbidden Planet and Casablanca, and the Bourne series may not be available on BluRay for some time so it is a good idea to get the exclusives if you can. In short, they may not be producing HDDVD anymore but it is still a viable and rewarding hobby. Heck, I still go to garage sales for Laser Disk!

By: JN

JN — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:53:29 +0000

For those that are interested here are Nero’s requirements
PCI-Express video board with support for DVI/HDMI and HDCP, screen/television with HDMI input or HDCP supported DVI input . PCI-Express video board with VGA output and VGA monitor . PCI-Express video board with component video output and video output, CGMS-A and Macrovision support, television or projector. On analog monitors some discs display only at low resolution or not at all.

By: JN

JN — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:15:34 +0000

It is important to note that HD DVD / Blu-ray software will not output HD on a computer unless you have an HDMI connection to your monitor. This is not required by spec but rather a restriction that the makers of PowerDVD and WinDVD have placed in the software that plays these discs. Nero has just come out with their version and it would be interesting to see if they have the same restriction. Otherwise your content will be down converted.

There are many people complaining on many forums about this as and it is not very clear Cyberlinks website. I have read it myself and it only mentions: HDCP (High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection) compliant display for digital output. I have read that people have tried PowerDVD and WinDVD with DVI and it did not output HD. I have Cyberlink running with HDMI and I do get 1080p.