Layer Change issues? (1 Viewer)

[Jaxon's Dad]

My assumption is that HD-DVD and BDs do not suffer from layer change issues. At least not yet. Am I correct?

 

[Hayes Preston]

I have yet to even notice a layer change on any HD DVD or SD DVD on my Toshiba

 

[Scott Simonian]

I heard that all players have a big enough buffer in them to make layer changes "seamless". IIRC, anyway...

 

[Jaxon's Dad]

Thanx for the replies. This is putting me closer and closer to the edge...

 

[JediFonger]

HD-DVD has already dual layer. BR's DL has just arrived with Click... but whether or not the entire movie is spread across both discs is unknown. could be movie on 1 layer and features on the other. i think Kingdom of Heaven will be the true test =).

 

[Dan Hitchman]

Both formats are required to have ample sized buffers in the players to eliminate the layer change.

Dan

 

[Larry Sutliff]

I haven't seen a single layer change on an HD DVD, nor did I see one on the CLICK BD.

 

[Dave_P.]

Yep, no layer change pause on the Click BD-50 for me.

 

[Travis]

I haven't seen one on an HDDVD but my SD's sure do. Kind of a bummer as I still have a ton of SD's in the collection. That is one area where my Denon excelled and I certainly got spoiled from it.

 

[Dave Moritz]

I own the HD-A1 and have not noticed a layer change when watching HD discs.

 

[Rolando]

odd, are you saying the HD-A1 shows no pause when switching to next layer on an HD disk but yes on an SD disc?

 

[Travis]

Correct. I have noticed about 3/4 of a second pause between layers on my SD discs. This is odd as I figured if it doesn't pause on HD why would it on SD.

 

[John_F]

Is this true with seamless branching and mutliple audio tracks?

 

[Rolando]

wow! How can this be? I figure the reason for layer chage being un-noticeable is that there is a big enough buffer to "cover" for the delay to switch layers. Wouldn't there be LESS to buffer on an SD-DVD therefore making it EASIER to cover?

 

[Stephen_J_H]

Could it be that the buffer is optimised on HD-DVD players for VC-1 and MPEG-4 and therefore it can't be used for MPEG-2 SD DVD?