New HD DVD players

New HD DVD players

• dizzyjay

  Yes, you need to be AACS signed to use networking (and p-storage). However, I believe most player manufacturers can supply a way of letting content creators disable this check on their retail players, so that title development can proceed without having to AACS sign every build.

  No, I don't know the details. But it is a requirement for players to have a "backdoor" to allow the VPC test suite to run on non-AACS discs, for example.

  
  
  

• qrli

  Correct; the web-enabled features are not being implemented by studios just yet, but they will come (hopefully some time this year!)
  
  

• tlc660

  Golgot13 will those discs have any special features, I'm interrested to see what other companies made.
  

• TomPearson

  I would rather have seen something like a "cookie" function where each title may use for example 1000 Bytes of persistent storage without the need of being protected first.

  Golgot which company do you work for We're also gonna bring out HD DVD and Blu-ray on the european market, you can also mail me the answer if you wish (see my profile).

  At the moment I think HD DVD advanced is the nicest HD authoring combo.

  
  

• bmacneal

  128M of persistant storage is mandatory for all HD DVD players. See http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=415927&SiteID=1

  TrueHDs are expensive Where do you live They are pretty cheap in the USA (comparable to tube TVs of equivalent size of ~5 yrs ago).

  
  
  

• MatMc

  It is not good to must have HD DVD encrypted in AACS to use this option :(
  I made some test with possibilitie to have JS application downloaded from the web
  on persistant storage and it didn't work (with HD XA1 and HD A1).
  I understand it because the option must be crypted (the JS application work on HD DVD project).
  
  
  
  Golgot13
  
  

• shyma

  To my mind, all HD DVD, now, have not a real special feature of HDi.
  I saw 2-3 years ago at Ceatec or CES of real "Advanced Content":
  - 3D games
  - Web link to webshop.
  - Menu refresh by the web (filmography of actor)
  
  I have 50 HD DVD and I don't see this on HD DVD. (I think this special feature will come).
  
  Our first HD DVDs will have the basic feature : teasers and basic filmography.
  And the priority is the picture quality (VC1 and H264 is better than MPEG2)
  
  
  
  
  Golgot13
  
  
  
  

• Rascal123

  The price is less in France, a LCD Full HD TVset start at 1300 euro (1650 for a Toshiba ;).
  And a HD Ready TV set start at 550 euro (better quality at 650euro).
  
  Matthias is hard to contact you company Ms "Mabry", I send three (before and after christmas)
  and no answer. When the MS technical training in december, we receive a doc for your soft
  and we can not test our HD DVD project.
  
  My company will launch 6 HD DVD in Europe (French speaking countries), 5 in VC1
  and 1 in H264 (in HP@L4.1 to test). We have some problems (HDi authoring it is hard...
  but thnak you for the MS training), we want to be sure with first HD DVDs
  ( we bought all players since april with HD XA1 to Xbox 360 with HD DVD drive and
  all software players). We need all player available (we will buy next week the A2 and AX2)
  
  
  
  Golgot13
  
  
  
  

• Nilavu

  I think he is living in europe =)

  Here you get tons of different 'HD ready' devices pretty cheap, but 'HD ready' only means min. 720p.. 1080 devices ( i talk about 'real' TVs not no-name stuff) are starting arround 2500-3000€ (~ 3200 - 3800 US $). But the price drops month by month so i hope that first 1080 displays below 2000€ are availabe until christmas :)

  
  
  

• rako77

  Yes Europe, one of the first :), I know hd ready sets are "cheap" but true hd, that is using 1920x1080 resolution, are still very expensive (at least here). But as soon other companies start manufacturing/releasing them the price will soon drop.
  
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