HD-DVD will be first...

[SuperSaiyan4]

With the announcement from Microsoft stating a HD DVD player add on will be available well this year for the Xbox 360 I am thinking I am sure it will be out before the PS3.

This will work out quite well IF Microsoft dont overprice the add on - I thinking of a price between £100-£130 but perhaps thats wishful thinking?

Either way that will be a very expensive add on - so unless Microsoft want to get in their first I say a price tag of around £99.99 is in order here

Thing is my uncle brought back some HD-DVD's from the US - didnt know they wont work unless you have a HD-DVD player LOL so that means HD-DVD players exist out there now?

[Max Payne]

Its crazy that HD-DVD's are on sale and there is nothing to play them on???

[SuperSaiyan4]

Originally Posted by Max Payne

Its crazy that HD-DVD's are on sale and there is nothing to play them on???

Nice name btw - shame the sequel wasnt that good

Yes its funny that even more funny is my uncle says you need Media Player 9 or high to run the movies...I was trying to tell him you need a HD-DVD player!! It wont work on a normal DVD drive lol!! He still insisted it should work on windows media 9 player! aaaarrrrggghhhh!!!

[matt_p]

Originally Posted by SuperSaiyan4

Yes its funny that even more funny is my uncle says you need Media Player 9 or high to run the movies...I was trying to tell him you need a HD-DVD player!! It wont work on a normal DVD drive lol!! He still insisted it should work on windows media 9 player! aaaarrrrggghhhh!!!

Are you sure your uncle didn't buy some WMV-HD DVDs? They are HD, are available in America (and have been for a fair time now), and would explain where he got the Windows Media Player idea from.

I don't think that actual HD-DVD software is out anywhere yet, apart from Japan.

[BenchyUK]

Originally Posted by SuperSaiyan4

With the announcement from Microsoft stating a HD DVD player add on will be available well this year for the Xbox 360 I am thinking I am sure it will be out before the PS3.

This will work out quite well IF Microsoft dont overprice the add on - I thinking of a price between £100-£130 but perhaps thats wishful thinking?

Either way that will be a very expensive add on - so unless Microsoft want to get in their first I say a price tag of around £99.99 is in order here

Thing is my uncle brought back some HD-DVD's from the US - didnt know they wont work unless you have a HD-DVD player LOL so that means HD-DVD players exist out there now?

I reckoned aswell that the HD-DVD Drive will be around the £100-£130 mark aswell. It needs to be about this in order to get enough people to buy it. You can almost guarentee that it will be out in November if not before in order to get the advantage on SONY

I am just wondering the quality. At that price it should be a quite reasonable player as it is sort of dedicated unlike the PS3 which has the built in Blue-Ray and will be at the lower end of the market in terms of quailty, when the price compared to a dedicated player is alot of money

As long as the HD-DVD add on will upscale normal DVD's aswell as playing HD-DVD's then i will probably invest in one unless there will be proper dedicated players for around £300 at the same time

[shaithis]

Have I missed the MS announcement?

Last I heard were they were toying with the idea but hadn't commited.

If they haven't made a solid announcement yet, I fear they may have missed the boat.

[matt_p]

Originally Posted by shaithis

Have I missed the MS announcement?

Yes, you have

http://ces.engadget.com/2006/01/04/e...360-this-year/

[shaithis]

Oh, that is a teaser, thanks for the link

[Drew2]

Originally Posted by lee_c00per

I am just wondering the quality. At that price it should be a quite reasonable player as it is sort of dedicated unlike the PS3 which has the built in Blue-Ray and will be at the lower end of the market in terms of quality, when the price compared to a dedicated player is alot of money

WHERE do you get this 'PAP' from - if the PS3 uses a Blu-ray drive as it's primary source, why will it be "the lower end of the market"? With your logic this applies to the XBox as it's secondary drive will be HDDVD - please explain? As you are hurting my brain??!!

[SuperSaiyan4]

Originally Posted by matt_p

Are you sure your uncle didn't buy some WMV-HD DVDs? They are HD, are available in America (and have been for a fair time now), and would explain where he got the Windows Media Player idea from.

I don't think that actual HD-DVD software is out anywhere yet, apart from Japan.

Oh so that means I would just need a plug in to play them in HD DVD? Sounds interesting I have media player 10 so it should work?

[matt_p]

Originally Posted by SuperSaiyan4

Oh so that means I would just need a plug in to play them in HD DVD? Sounds interesting I have media player 10 so it should work?

Some discs, yes. Other discs need to be authenticated via the net, and you need a USA ip address. But that is a whole other topic and there's loads of other threads that cover the various problems.

But essentially, yes, a WMV-HD disc can be played on your computer at HD quality.

Have a look here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...o/hdvideo.aspx

[BadAss]

Is it me or are people getting confused here?

WMV-HD can be played on a PC to play WMV encoded movies which you can buy on a standard DVD. This format has nothing to do with Blue-Ray/HD-DVD/PS3 or X-Box 360 or the X-Box 360 add on HD drive.

You can not plug the X-Box 360 HD drive into a PC and play HD-DVDs using WMP 9 or 10. Lol.

[BenchyUK]

Originally Posted by Drew2

WHERE do you get this 'PAP' from - if the PS3 uses a Blu-ray drive as it's primary source, why will it be "the lower end of the market"? With your logic this applies to the XBox as it's secondary drive will be HDDVD - please explain? As you are hurting my brain??!!

Compared to dedicated Blue-Ray players the PS3 is rather cheap but say it goes on sale for £400 and a dedicated player is £700 then not only are you getting something cheaper in terms of cost then it must be cheaper in terms of quality otherwise you are paying £400 for a blue-ray player and a not very impressive games console

I though the Playstation 3 was meant to be a games console first and a Movie Player second but as it goes on it seems to be the other way around and people are more bothered about how good of a movie player it will be

[matt_p]

Originally Posted by BadAss

Is it me or are people getting confused here?

I think you've got confused here! If you read the thread from the top, the original poster said that his uncle had brought back some HD-DVDs from America. I informed him that they were likely to be WMV-HD DVDs, not actual HD-DVDs and then gave him a little explanation and referred him to Microsoft's site.

I can't see anyone saying that WMV-HD has anything to do with hd-dvd, xbox 360 or PS3. Apart from your post, that is

[BadAss]

Originally Posted by SuperSaiyan4

Oh so that means I would just need a plug in to play them in HD DVD? Sounds interesting I have media player 10 so it should work?

What plug in does SuperSaiyan4 refert to? If he aleady has WMP10 there is no need for any plug ins surely?