Are there any HD DVD players out yet? (1 Viewer)

[MikeSHU]

I'm not talking the ones that "up-sample" the standard DVD disk to 1080i. I'm talking about being able to play back 1080P HD DVD disks.

 

[SimiA]

Coming soon to a home near you.
But not yet.
Vb

 

[MikeSHU]

HD DVD Samples from Microsoft

Take a look at these HD DVD even encoded to WMV format is amazing. Too bad you need at least a 3GHZ CPU to play back 1080I and 1080P.

 

[Rob Kramer]

Yeah, but who are you going to support? Better yet, who are the studios going to support?

Microsoft's codec, the DVD forum's HD-DVD, or Sony's Blu-ray DVD?

 

[SimiA]

Rob, that's a valid point.
I'll guess we'll have to wait and see which format the studios support before we make a decision,
Better yet, maybe, just maybe, the new players might support more than one format.
Well, I can always hope.

 

[SimiA]

Mike Shu. BooHao, BooHao.
I just ran the flight video. I suggest to anyone else, don't do it!!
It crashed my puter.
I'm running 3.2ghz, 512meg of ddr ram, with a 9600 radeon 256meg video card.
Windows pop up said there was an error, "sorry for the inconvience", that I should send an error report, and my puter crashed.
Video took 8 plus minutes to download, I'm using a cable connection; pq is great, but jerky in parts.
Took forever to reboot!!!
Vb

 

[MikeSHU]

Suprisingly they actually work pretty well on my PC with a little skipping. I have a 2.1Ghz P4 512MB ram and a radeon 9800Pro. Try using media player 10. I can't imagine why it would crash your PC.

 

[SimiA]

It said that media 10 would automatically be upgraded so you could view the video.
Might be the 9800 pro advantage.
Oh well, all is right in XP land now.
Vb

 

[John S]

Cool stuff in this thread....

So what titles are available on WMV? Or maybe even a link, so I can go look myself. This would be a good reason for me to go ahead and try some HTPC stuff. I have not had to much interest in it so far.

 

[MikeSHU]

forget teh formats. You know what a 1080P capable display costs?

 

[MikeSHU]

yet another reason to build an HTPC

 

[SimiA]

There's a Good Fella down the block.
He's got them for a price too good to refuse!!
Vb

 

[ChrisWiggles]

PLayers that support WMV HD are rumored to be hitting the market eventually, and probably sooner than any HD-DVD final formats get agreed on. I have all those clips of WMV, and I can run them all fine at 720p, I don't have the computing juice to run 1080p well at all, it comes out like a slideshow. I also can't really properly resolve 1080p with my CRT projector, but I can do 720p just fine, and display 1080p anyway, it just gets a little soft is all.

As for full titles, there are a bunch of IMAX movies out in HD, Standing in the Shadows of Motown, T2, and a new adult film was just released with an HD disc as well. There are other sources for HD, I think atom films or one of those places has a player thing that sends you movies including some in WMV HD, and some new trailers are also out there in HD, like batman I think.

 

[MikeSHU]

The quality is amazing though it definitely is like "looking through a window". An adult film would be nice in HD. Like looking through a neighbors windows.

 

[elMalloc]

lol

 

[Shane Martin]

7-8k right now. Sharp has a 45" LCD Aquous Flat Panel right now.

 

[ChrisWiggles]

FYI: there was an adult film just released with an HD WM9 disc accompanying the regular DVD for those of you with HTPCs and WM9 playback capability.

No, I cannot comment on the quality of the transfer.