HD-DVD region?

[davsdu]

Will HD-DVD players and movies be region locked?

[plasmad00d]

HD-DVD movies no , but DVD movies played on it will be region specific iirc

[BenchyUK]

That's great that region coding has been scrapped for this generation od DVD but still a pain that you will nedd a code or chipped version in order to play the SD DVD's

[Stuart Kirby]

I'm spending too much time on these forums... I thought the thread title was "HD-DVD Religion"

Quite happy to see a region free future - for now anyway!

[lfletcher]

If its any confirmation, it looks like the US films work on the Japanese player.

[Packetfront]

Originally Posted by lfletcher

If its any confirmation, it looks like the US films work on the Japanese player.

The Japs player is better as it can play our DVDs in Europe and the HD-DVD titles from all around the world, it's region-free for HD-DVD in the first batch of players.

With the U.S player you need to hack if you want to play regular R2 DVDs on it.

[shaithis]

Originally Posted by Packetfront

The Japs player is better as it can play our DVDs in Europe and the HD-DVD titles from all around the world, it's region-free for HD-DVD in the first batch of players.

With the U.S player you need to hack if you want to play regular R2 DVDs on it.

Has it confirmed to play PAL R2? As the Japanese system was NTSC R2...

Although 95% of my collection is R1 or R3, I also have R2, R4 and R5 =/
Will be keeping my player for some time to come it would seem.

[lfletcher]

I was referring to HD-DVD compatability. I have no idea about DVD compatability.

[DanielTS]

Originally Posted by lfletcher

If its any confirmation, it looks like the US films work on the Japanese player.

Hands on With Japanese Toshiba Player
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=666326

2. The VC-1 US titles have amazing, just amazing picture quality.

[JamesL]

it looks like the US films work on the Japanese player

This is excellent news. With neither format being supported by all studios we will invariably have to resort to importing titles from different territories. This is obviously not going to be possible for BluRay due to the introduction of three regions. It might not make any difference for the US audience but the lack of region coding on HD DVD could be a big boast in it's overseas adoption.

I'm hoping that the UK release of the Toshiba HD-XA1 will allow easy multi-regioning for SD DVD whilst playing all HD DVDs. Let's hope so!

[shaithis]

Originally Posted by JamesL

It might not make any difference for the US audience but the lack of region coding on HD DVD could be a big boast in it's overseas adoption.

Whilst the regional encoding will make hardly any difference to the US market, the fact that HD-DVD will work via component in high-def will be a mammoth selling point over there.

So far for me, BluRay imposes too many restrictions for it to be a clear winner.

Still the Toshiba doesn't look much cop

[Packetfront]

Bluray is a niche format, they are postponing the releases all the time and Pioneer won't release their player until October they said today and PS3 won't come until Nov/Dec.

HD-DVD got everything for it being a successive format already with almost 6 months dominating the market until BluRay gets out, the price scheme is in favour for HD-DVD, to be able to output HD resolutions on YUV output without HDCP and other conflictive copyright protection and much more advantages to the HD-DVD format.

[Dutch]

Originally Posted by Packetfront

HD-DVD got everything for it being a successive format already with almost 6 months dominating the market until BluRay gets out, the price scheme is in favour for HD-DVD, to be able to output HD resolutions on YUV output without HDCP and other conflictive copyright protection and much more advantages to the HD-DVD format.

This is not specific to HD DVD. It's whether the title contains the ICT flag (to constrain HD component to 960x540 resolution), not which format the title is in. So far, only Warner have stated that they will have the ICT flag - all the other main content providers have seen sense and will not have it.

Steve

[lfletcher]

According the the thread over on avs, the machine will only play region 2 SD DVD's, so isnt multi-region out of the box (well the Japanese machine isnt).

[gandley]

its HD region free and SD region locked. +there are doubt the AACS will allow any hack of any sort, so dont expect it to be unlocked.