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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. MOD AC into oblivion by fyngyrz · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    The parent post is just wrong. The PS3 problem was fixed within 3 weeks of it being reports, less i believe.

    No. The only thing Sony has fixed to date is the output of games in 720p, not the output of Blueray disks in 720p. Again, if you pay attention to what I said, take a few minutes with Google to verify it, you'll find my post was spot on.

    I am amazed at the level of misinformation we find here in our supposedly "technical" readership. Usually issues of fact aren't much for stupid, wrong-headed posts... just when it strays into opinion (like the stupid "conspiracy" cries in one of the replies.) But this... man, you can look this up, it takes about thirty seconds to find the facts I laid out verified in any number of respected forums, not to mention the annoyed posts of many PS3 users in various blogs and so on.

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  2. BETTER than Blade Runner by Nicky+G · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Let me begin by saying I am a huge fan of "cyberpunk" sci-fi, and Blade Runner is definitely one of my favorite films.

    Children of Men is a better movie. On almost all levels. Not geeky-cool-nerdy-high-tech-special-effectsy kind of stuff. It's just a much better movie. Better acting (by far.) Better editing (by far.) Better cinematography even (and in this area Blade Runner is quite amazing.)

    Children of Men is simply amazing -- definitely should have won Best Cinematography, at least (Pan's Labyrinth was good, but not THAT good.) If you enjoy heady, thinking-person's sci-fi, especially when produced masterfully, I highly encourage you to check it out. But now I am happy I got the standard 480p DVD, and didn't buy the Xbox 360 HD-DVD, which I almost did _specifically_ for this film. Whew!