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Popular HD DVD Disc Hits a Snag

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the tear-your-pants-on-that-snag dept.

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."

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  1. Re:ah DRM by PitaBred · · Score: 4, Funny

    too weak and you can get anything to play them.
    Man, it SUCKS when I want to play my media on a device I own, and it actually does it without me having to jump through hoops!
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  2. Re:What's old is new again by dAzED1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    yeah, I agree. It has to be really hard for a group of people to agree to a standard, and then stick to it. Especially when MS is involved.

  3. Re:recieved-received by norminator · · Score: 3, Funny

    'I' Before 'E' except after 'C' and when sounding like "Eh" and in "Neighbor" and "Weigh"

    and on weekends and holidays and all throughout May
    And you'll always be wrong, no matter what you say!

    --Brian Regan
  4. Re:Less issues with HD-DVD then Blu-ray by flynt · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have had issues with Crank and Speed.

    There are clinics to help you with that.

  5. Re:Eagles HD-DVD has problems too by Farmer+Tim · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have Eagles concert HD-DVD that doesn't play in xbox360 hd-dvd player either...

    That's not a bug, it's a feature.

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  6. Re:I saw the movie by Moofie · · Score: 2, Funny

    How did you get from "Person A didn't think this was a very good movie" to "Person A thinks art should never include any kind of political message" to "Person A is a torture advocate and probably eats babies"?

    I mean, wow. That's a really impressive set of assumptions you've got there...

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