HD player/disc problems

[Anonymous]

Whilst the format battle appears to have been won by Blu-ray over HD-DVD, the success of the format is far from secure. Whilst theoretically, Blu-ray has a higher storage capacity, this does not equate to a better quality, I have both and they are indestingishable from each other so no superiority issues here.

Blu-rays biggest battle is with DVD a because of its ease of use, widespread acceptance and more than acceptable quality for the vast majority of users. People really do not want loads more features than a DVD provides already, or interactivity, and they most certainly do not want to hear about firmware updates and profiles changing.

Untill you can buy a reasonably priced player and discs, and guarantee they will play, with no firmware updates required, no lipsync issues and no "freezing", and it plays all your old DVD's, then Blu-ray will stay elitest and never go mainstream.

The first chance of this is when profile 2.0 goes live and proves that all the issues have been resolved and finalised, until then, you could still be onto a loser with Blu-ray. If this does not happen, then I believe DVD will stay the last mass produced movie disc format and run alongside HDTV/cable/Sky/Internet programming, with Blu-ray fading into obscurity very soon afterwards apart from gaming.

So to answer your question, no-one has won.................YET! Could still be mutual anhiallation.

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks for that oldskool, back in the 80's we waited for reasonable cd players to drop below £200 and discs to be widely available before I jumped in and having been caught with mini-disc I've no intention of being caught again.

Whats more I find the quality of dvd's through my Arcam diva137 and screenplay 7210 projector displaying at 68ins diagonal more than exceptable......no its not the last word in definition compared to hd, but its still looks damm good and anybody who has been to the cinema recently would have to admit that that experience lacks definition too.

On a personal note I can see me continuing to use this system for a number of years as I have no wish to fill my house with more boxes and formats and if and when I do change it will be again for a multi- media player that will play all formats, but will sound as good as the Arcam with cds in stereo which strangely both me and the wife prefer as compared to a multi channel set up. High quality stereo still takes some beating and I still enjoy buying cd's inspite of it being an old format in the face of downloads.

As I don't do gaming a hd device would be purely for films and with the uncertainty I will continue to wait.....anybody else out there feel the same?

 

[Anonymous]

Just bought spiderman3 and for some reason it won't play through my pc(power dvd)never had any trouble before and strangely the extra's disc works ok

Anyone any ideas ?

 

[Anonymous]

Spiderman 3 is notorious for being one of the most difficult discs to play, thanks again 20th Century Fox!

 

[Anonymous]

I now have my 1st faulty HD-DVD Disc. I just bought "Santana - Hymns for Peace" and there are supposed to be 3 different audio tracks, HD-DTS, DD5.1 and stereo.

I must have the Sign Language version of the disc, as there are NO audio tracks on it! Ideal for a music disc eh?

And for anyone remotely interested, my LG Blu-ray player that does not play Blu-ray discs has now been waiting 9 months for a fix by LG and it still doesn't work. I can smell a court case approaching.

Oldskool.

 

[Anonymous]

[quote user="professorhat"] just certain manufacturers players and new BD discs. Inevitably they get fixed with firmware upgrades [/quote]

You are very wrong there I am afraid and this is a dangerous statement to make. I have had a LG Blu-ray player now for 9 months that will not play Blu-ray discs despite all the firmware upgrades and being back at LG for many weeks. I wouldn't get too confident in your/ your players ability to continue working indefinately with firmware upgrades and I DEFINATELY would not put MY name on a post that tells others they can either!

 

[professorhat]

Sorry to hear that. Fortunately professorhat is not my real name.

 

[professorhat]

There we go, my earlier "dangerous statement" has now been amended to make it relatively harmless.

 

[sdecker]

On my Toshiba EP-35 the HD-DVD "Cecilia and Bryn at Glyndebourne" refuses to play from the start, the machine coming up with a scripting error. I have a number of other Opus Arte classical HD-DVDs all of which play perfectly. I have emailed Opus Arte but to date there has been no response.

Steve Decker

 

[Anonymous]

I have recently purchased a Sony RDR HXD870B DVD/HDD/Freeview - Do it all box.

I have the aerial from the wall going into the digital aerial in, and the digital aerial out goes into the back of the TV.

In terms of DVD/HDD I have connected via an HDMI lead into the back of the TV.

Picture and sound quality are great and it looks great too,

BUT

There is a really high pitched tone coming out of the unit itself, it isnt particularly loud but very very high pitched and can be heard above the tv volume. It starts about 5 mins after switching the unit on - anyone have any ideas?