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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."
This is not true. This was fixed a few firmware revisions ago.
Don't think of it as a flame---it's more like an argument that does 3d6 fire damage
What are you talking about? When have you ever seen a 720p native display refuse 1080i input? There are plenty of monitors and HDTVs out there that only sync to 1080i (leaving 720p support out), but none out there refuse 1080i.
What does this mean? Well, that your complaint about being unable to watch a Blu-Ray movie on the PS3 due to lack of display support is completely bogus. This, from someone who owns two HDTVs (including a 720p projector - Sony HS-20), as well as a 360 and a PS3. The PS3 is connected to a 720p projector. It outputs 1080i, which the projector readily accepts. Just recently saw Blazing Saddles on BD through that setup and it looked *great*.
It is not rated for 1080p, it is rated for 1080i. Projector Central is *THE* place to look up input and throw specs for any projector. It's referenced by the AVSForum FAQs on sub $3000 and +$3000 projectors for all technical specs.
Your claim that the PS3 cannot output movies at 720p is a non sequitur since every HD rated display device accepts at least 1080i input over component. 1080p is not yet formally part of the ATSC standard, therefore it's no surprise you didn't find support for it on a two year old projector.
Again: you are wrong on the facts.
As I pointed out to you in a different post, the specs for that projector show that it is designed to support 1080i input. If it doesn't your problem is not with Sony (or the PS3) but with Insight for selling you a projector that doesn't meet its own technical specs. Support for 1080i is a bare minimum for all sets designated "HD Ready".
As you well know, I took the trouble to look that specific projector up at projectorcentral.com. pjcentral is the primary reference site for the AVSForum pj forums. But it is true that I didn't look for known bugs on a projector that I don't own. I shouldn't have to.
You are making claims about the PS3 and Blu-Ray that are blatantly wrong. Further, you assert that since your broken projector won't sync at 1080i with a PS3, it must be a problem with the PS3. I think not. The PS3 meets the ATSC spec. Apparently, your projector does not.
You confuse games with movies. All movies are encoded to 1080 scanlines. All "HD Ready" designated sets are supposed to support 1080i as a lowest common denominator input format. Some older HD sets do not also support 720p input (even some that are 720p native). Some games have been rendered at 720p native and thus output 720p, not 1080i/p. Those people who own sets that don't take 720p as input will be unable to play 720p rendered games. All 1080 games and movies should be playable on any "HD Ready" set made since 2000/2001.
All you have to do is change your output from 720p to 1080i and *poof!* problem goes away. Now please fuck off for both arguing an outright falsehood and then claiming that I am an industry shill when I called you on it.