Category Archives: HD DVD

Toshiba continues to provide HD DVD support

Posted on September 8, 2008 by Stephen Dawson

I am impressed. This afternoon I turned on my Toshiba HD-XE1 HD DVD player for the first time in a month or so. Aside from playing my collection of fifty or so HD DVDs, I find it useful to check … Continue reading →

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Packaging errors on Blu-ray discs

Posted on July 29, 2008 by Stephen Dawson

I use AnyDVD HD to help me analyse DVDs, Blu-ray discs and HD DVDs. However it hasn’t been of as much help with determining the region codes of Blu-ray discs as it has been with DVDs. I raised this on … Continue reading →

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HELP! Taking screen shots of Blu-ray

Posted on July 25, 2008 by Stephen Dawson

Does anyone know of a tool which allows you to take full frame grabs from Blu-ray and HD DVD on a Windows platform? You can’t do it with PowerDVD (although this does provide it for DVDs). I would love to … Continue reading →

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Wasting Digital Real-estate

Posted on July 15, 2008 by Stephen Dawson

The excellent Blu-ray section of High-Def Digest is a frequent stopping point for me, especially its reviews. The reviews are usually pretty well done, but they do contain the odd error, often due to the difficulty of obtaining valid information … Continue reading →

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Disc Database

Posted on July 8, 2008 by Stephen Dawson

One of the things I’ve been doing since not long after the introduction of the DVD has been building a database in Microsoft Access of details relating to discs. I’ve added additional fields over the years to allow for bits … Continue reading →

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Disc Giveaway and swap

Posted on July 4, 2008 by Stephen Dawson

I’ve got some discs to give away, plus some to swap. Before getting to that, though, may I commend to any Australians: purchase Star Trek Season 1 on HD DVD from EzyDVD. This ten disc package, with over 1,400 minutes … Continue reading →

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Paramount returns to Blu-ray!

Posted on May 15, 2008 by Stephen Dawson

Those with longish memories may recall that when Blu-ray and HD DVD started, two studios were open minded. Warner Bros eventually (ie. this year) decided to go Blu-ray only, while Paramount was allegedly paid a significant sum last year to … Continue reading →

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Yes, HD DVD is dead

Posted on February 19, 2008 by Stephen Dawson

Well, so that’s it for HD DVD. Just Google News on HD DVD, and you will see that its demise is official. Of course, it’s only Toshiba abandoning the format, but without Toshiba the format is nothing. Interesting parallels: Betamax … Continue reading →

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Is HD DVD dead?

Posted on February 17, 2008 by Stephen Dawson

A couple of decades ago I read a slim volume called ‘The Limits to Prediction’ (I think, or something like that), which presented half a dozen papers on the art of predicting future events, and the success that was achieved. … Continue reading →

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Dirty Disc and HD DVD error codes

Posted on January 19, 2008 by Stephen Dawson

The other day Paramount sent me the HD DVD of Stardust, all nicely shrink-wrapped. I hadn’t really heard of this movie, so quick lookup on IMDB was encouraging, since it scores 8.1 out of 10 from over 36,000 voters. Last … Continue reading →

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