HD DVD and Blu-ray not ready for prime time
 

Teething problems for the first HD DVD and Blu-Ray models as reported by AV installers. It looks like it may take a couple of production line revisions to get some of these problems to shake out.

http://www.avrev.com/news/0706/13.hd_installers.shtml

Interesting, and not surprising. Thanks for sharing.

:iagree: .....and recorder is still not out.:tsk:

The bleeding edge is still bleeding. No suprises here. The Blu-Ray and HD-DVD camps are falling over each other trying to get to market first and out-spec each other. If it was up to engineering instead of marketing the products wouldn't be out yet.

Being on the bleeding edge has it's advantages and disadvantages. I can tell you...I am fully enjoying HD DVD from the Toshiba HD-A1 in my home theater on 80 glorious inches. At $500 to get in the game, it has been well worth it, and my wife even comments on how amazing it is.

Cool. Late adapters like me thank the earlier adapters like you. ;)

Do you have the load time and HDMI switching problems reported in the article above? Do you have any heat dissipation problems with the unit? What HD-DVD titles do you have?

The bleeding edge is still bleeding. No suprises here. The Blu-Ray and HD-DVD camps are falling over each other trying to get to market first and out-spec each other. If it was up to engineering instead of marketing the products wouldn't be out yet.


I SECOND THAT

That's why I'm waiting for the PS3 at least I can argue that I can play games on it.

:thumbup:

Sure the player takes more time to load. Does it bother me? Not really. I have it hooked up to my Internet connection to recieve the firmware updates via download, works great, and fixed most of the HDMI issues and some of the load time issues as well. But then again, I never really had any issues because I pop a movie in and watch it all the way through. I don't switch sources. Would I like it fixed? Sure. I have no heat issues with this player, and I have another player on top of it as well.

I have Serenity, Constantine, Doom, Swordfish, Pitch Black, and The Chronicles of Riddick. The Chronicles of Riddick is amazing, my wife's jaw dropped. The picture is amazing, as alluded to in the article. Worth every penny on that alone IMHO.

At this time I would say the Blu-Ray camp has many more issues than HD DVD. They are suffering from poor transfers, older, less efficient video codecs, and audio support issues as well. On the flip side, HD DVD has less studio suport. It truly is another format war. If anyone is interested in following the trials and tribulations of both formats...here is a great place to look.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/forumdisplay.php?f=148

I watched The Chronicles of Riddick on the HD movie channel. It was impressive. How does HD-DVD stack up against cable/sat HD?