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Popular HD DVD Disc Hits a Snag
An anonymous reader writes "Following weeks of headlines touting strong sales for Blu-ray discs, rival next-gen format HD DVD looked like it had its own success story in the making with this week's HD DVD release of the cult hit 'Children of Men.' The disc recieved a stellar review at High-Def Digest, and went on to out-sell the most popular Blu-ray discs on Amazon. But now comes word of apparent incompatibility issues with the Xbox 360 HD DVD player, with some (but not all) consumers reporting that even multiple returns of the disc are unplayable on the format's leading playback device."
Can't believe the trailer compared it to Blade Runner. The King Crimson / Pink Floyd references were cute tho.
Right, because nobody has ever posted negative comments on the internet about a device that competes with the one they bought. Oh, wait. That's probably half the stuff that's out there. The other half is the same small group of people posting the same horror story over and over even though (in most cases) both of the competing devices work just fine for the vast, vast majority of users.
I think the likelihood of of this guy actually having $2500 worth of next generation playback equipment is about 1/1000th of the chance that he's just full of shit. Maybe he's not lying, but odds are...
Bullshit.
According to Projector Central, the Infocus 5000 takes 1080i over component input. Older Infocus units were 480p projectors. So, your complaint there is also utter bullshit. Why should a 480p projector take 1080i as input?
Your complaint has nothing to do with the PS3 or Blu-Ray. Every HDTV I've seen, even 720p native panels, takes a 1080i signal as input (though it may scale the signal down for display purposes). Your claim that the PS3 can't output 720p BD movies, and therefore must downgrade to 480p is just completely wrong.
I own a 360, a PS3, and a Sony HS-20 720p digital projector (also a dd5.1 sound system). I can attest that this setup works in its entirety (digital and analog HD video and dd5.1 digital audio over fiber).