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XBOX HD-DVD RECIEVED THROUGH SWAPADVD.COM WON'T PLAY ON MY SAMSUNG

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7/21/09 at 10:53am
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Any help or info greatly appreciated. As a member of  'swapadvd.com' I recently recieved an HD-DVD of THe Last Samurai (Tom Cruise) popped it into my Samsung HD player and nothing.....Then popped it into my laptop and clicked play HD-DVD and still nothing. The guy that sent it said he had just viewed it on his XBOX and it was fine. I'm thinking they are not compatable...What say ye? 
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7/21/09 at 11:50am
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Depends which "Samsung HD" player you are talking about.  Samsung only ever made one dual format player, the BD-UP5000.  Any other model you should not be expecting to be able to play the disc.

HD-DVD is not the same as "blu-ray", only a few dual format players were ever made, the Samsung mentioned and a couple LG models.  Only a few combo drives for computers, also.

HD-DVD is also not the same as "HD upconverting", tons of regular DVD players somewhat misleadingly plaster "HD" somewhere in their model name & on the box, but they only play regular DVDs.  Only players with the HD-DVD.svgactual "HD-DVD" logo can actually play the discs, and these were almost all made by Toshiba.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_DVD

People who don't hang out a lot on forums like this often get confused about this.

If the guy clearly listed his sale as "HD-DVD", it's more your fault than his, though perhaps he should have made more warnings about compatibility in his post.


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