I'd spend $200 for an upgradeable INTERNAL hd dvd drive for my 360. That's probabaly the only way I'll ever buy an hd dvd player. I will however download those HD rentals from XBL. That and my Comcast On-Demand HD content is enough for me. That covers just about all HD content I care to see thats not on my DVR (also Comcast which is great now that it has series recording options.)I should say that my 26" (1633 x768) HD LCD is also my monitor. That means that I use it for xbox, hd-tv, and hd content on the web. Most hd web-content is via Apples hd-trailers, though there is other assorted 720p content (which is as good as 1080i to most eyes on all but the highest-end stuff.)
540p is lower than 1080i. The temporal perception of 1080i is that it is 1080 lines of resolution. Put a deinterlaced static image of two 1080i frames together and put them next to a single frame of 540p and I guarantee you there is more detail in the 1080i image.
Yes, the movies could be down-sampled... except for the fact that there are no HD DVD movies with the Image Constraint Token enabled. There won't be any for quite some time because the people who don't have HDCP are the early adopters without whom the HD movie business would not exist. There was supposedly some sort of unofficial pact to not use the ICT before 2010 or 2012, IIRC... and after that long the first company to do it will look like the bad guy. Basically, by the time it's enabled (if ever), you can pretty much count on someone having already found a way to bypass it.
Vista does have drivers built in. I installed the HD drive and it immediatly recognized the HD Drive. I have Vista RC2. It didnt however have the drivers for some "memory unit" that it recognized.
@chedabobYou're wrong. Microsoft makes it's own mice (mouses?) and keyboards. And I'm not sure about the keyboards, as I've never used one, but the mice(mouses?) they make are damn good.
ebfoxbatNov 14, 2006
I'd spend $200 for an upgradeable INTERNAL hd dvd drive for my 360. That's probabaly the only way I'll ever buy an hd dvd player. I will however download those HD rentals from XBL. That and my Comcast On-Demand HD content is enough for me. That covers just about all HD content I care to see thats not on my DVR (also Comcast which is great now that it has series recording options.)I should say that my 26" (1633 x768) HD LCD is also my monitor. That means that I use it for xbox, hd-tv, and hd content on the web. Most hd web-content is via Apples hd-trailers, though there is other assorted 720p content (which is as good as 1080i to most eyes on all but the highest-end stuff.)
fanclerksNov 14, 2006
@jacenatYou're an idiot. HD-DVD supports up to 1080p, just like Blu-Ray. Whether the movie is at that resolution or not is up to the studio that makes the movie/DVD. And BTW, there's a difference between 1080i and 560p. 1080i != 560p. All current movies released on HD-DVD have been in 1080p format.<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD-DVD#Specifications">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD-DVD#Specifications</a>Read up on it.
honer123Nov 14, 2006
540p is lower than 1080i. The temporal perception of 1080i is that it is 1080 lines of resolution. Put a deinterlaced static image of two 1080i frames together and put them next to a single frame of 540p and I guarantee you there is more detail in the 1080i image.
Closed AccountNov 14, 2006
Yes, the movies could be down-sampled... except for the fact that there are no HD DVD movies with the Image Constraint Token enabled. There won't be any for quite some time because the people who don't have HDCP are the early adopters without whom the HD movie business would not exist. There was supposedly some sort of unofficial pact to not use the ICT before 2010 or 2012, IIRC... and after that long the first company to do it will look like the bad guy. Basically, by the time it's enabled (if ever), you can pretty much count on someone having already found a way to bypass it.
akira117Nov 14, 2006
Anyone know if it will work on my video card?1900 XTX<a class="user" href="http://www.powercolor.com/main_product_detail.asp?id=104">http://www.powercolor.com/main_product_detail.asp?id=104</a>
shil01Nov 14, 2006
Vista does have drivers built in. I installed the HD drive and it immediatly recognized the HD Drive. I have Vista RC2. It didnt however have the drivers for some "memory unit" that it recognized.
zonk3rNov 15, 2006
Do you understand what the comparison is to? Didn't think so.
akira117Nov 15, 2006
Anyone?
Closed AccountDec 2, 2006
@chedabobYou're wrong. Microsoft makes it's own mice (mouses?) and keyboards. And I'm not sure about the keyboards, as I've never used one, but the mice(mouses?) they make are damn good.