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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*.