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By Arun, 8 months and 28 days ago

HD DVD all, but dead?

You might have read the news that Warner Bros. moved to Blu-ray and dropped support for HD DVD, couple of days back. It's now being rumored (1, 2) that Paramount might do the same. This will bring the format war close to death and it would be a big blow to Microsoft and Toshiba and to me too since I bought a HD DVD player recently. :(

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By Arun, 9 months and 19 days ago

HD VMD - Another high def player

I somehow missed this news. I accidentally came across this news in PC World today. The news was 3 months old. It was talking about a new technology, namely HD VMD (Versatile Multilayer Disc) which was supposed to be cheaper than Blu Ray and HD DVD. It uses the current DVD technology, the red laser technology, unlike Blu Ray's and HD DVD's blue laser technology. HD VMD discs holds 30GB on a single disc (one sided). The format uses MPEG-2 and VC1 video formats to encode at 1080p resolution for the time being, and will possibly move to the H.264 format in the future.

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By Arun, 10 months and 9 days ago

Toshiba HD-A2 HD DVD Player worked after firmware upgrade

My brother gifted me a Toshiba HD-A2 HD DVD Player. I didn't have any HD movie at home to test and the movie rental stores near my house didn't have any HD DVD movie for rent. I played the regular DVDs and they worked fine. I then rented couple of HD DVDs from Netflix. The player reported one of the HD DVD was not a playable disk and recognized the other one, but didn't play it. It didn't work. I was going to return the player, but then decided to upgrade the firmware and try.

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