I use one of the old 'free' OEM HDDVD softwares (there's several around like PowerDVD). Even if you have a new PowerDVD there's lots of little additions you can make to take it back to HDDVD. Just don't auto-update the OEM versions or it'll kill the HDDVD facilty.
Even if you have the slightest interest in HDDVD (simply for the fact you can get the data off them and put it on a Blu-ray obviously) it's worth digging around because you can pick up ROMs dirt cheap as many people sell then as "Blu-ray" wherein fact they are
dual players.
I think to be fair to Universal's Blu-rays many are just 'different' to their HDDVD counterparts but quite a few are certainly better if you like your film to look
like film and not smudgey DNR crap. It's interesting that many of my favourites [on HDDVD] are rather rough transfers but that's how they're meant to look. And several of those have smaller size data files too.
The French HDDVD of
Terminator 2 is wonderful no doubt. Looks like the cinema for me. The Blu-ray is fine of course but something's not quite right. Mind there's a UK HDDVD but that only has the theatrical cut and I like the DC/SE which is the 2nd disc on the French StudioCanal release.
There's a German HDDVD (just the theatrical cut I believe) and I have it but I've not compared it although this AVF'er
child was impressed
