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Retail Leaks of HD-DVD Players, Discs Reported

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the someone-about-to-get-fired dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Though the market launch of the first HD-DVD players and discs does not officially begin until tomorrow (Tuesday), the online DVD community is already buzzing with fan reports of early street date violations at some retail outlets."

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  1. Wrong, not informative by Wesley+Felter · · Score: 4, Informative

    Regular HDMI type A (you know, like the kind used by the PS3) can carry 1080p. Since movies are stored in 1080p24 on the disc, the player converts this to 1080i60 (which causes no loss of data), and then the TV performs a trivial inverse telecine to recover the original 1080p24.