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post #1 of 28
10/22/12 at 3:18pm
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Just watched What dreams may come, what a gorgeous transfer. Anyone else watch anything lately on this platform?
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post #2 of 28
11/9/12 at 2:25pm
We watched Shawn Of The Dead on HD DVD as part of our Halloween Film Festival - great movie, looks great on HD DVD too !!
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post #3 of 28
11/11/12 at 4:55pm
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any idea if the HD version is any better than the BD version? Ive been debating if I should start converting my collection...
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post #4 of 28
11/12/12 at 1:04pm
I just started revisiting Battlestar Galactica Season 1. I'm too cheap to rebuy it on blu ray.
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post #5 of 28
11/12/12 at 4:05pm
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cant disagree, when I see an HD for mere pennies, I cant resist...
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post #6 of 28
11/12/12 at 8:51pm
Matrix trilogy.
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post #7 of 28
11/13/12 at 5:03am
Just watched Stardust the other night.
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post #8 of 28
11/13/12 at 9:10am
Re-watched The Kingdom last night.....looked great !
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post #9 of 28
11/28/12 at 8:39pm
The Last Samurai. Wouldn't play all the way through without issues. Replaced with a BD. First time I've had to do that. Only other BD replacement I've done is Casablanca for the deluxe box set.
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post #10 of 28
11/29/12 at 6:02am
Re-watched Stardust last weekend....really enjoyable film. PQ was great sometimes, soft other times.
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post #11 of 28
11/29/12 at 7:53am
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I just watched the fountain last night, great flick
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post #12 of 28
11/29/12 at 9:43am
I watched Assault on Precinct 13 a couple weeks ago. I dunno, although I've committed to Blu-ray (lots of discs and Oppo 93), every time I put in an HD-DVD, I can't help but think that the wrong format won. smile.gif
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post #13 of 28
11/29/12 at 1:08pm
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alot of people still feel that way. My BD collection outways my HD collection 5:1, but I still hiccups on playing some of the new movies on my "new" BD player....oh well. Ill be watching the thing and the pianist this weekend though
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post #14 of 28
12/1/12 at 3:52am
Still have dozen or so "shrinkwrapped" HD's to watch (out of nearly 200), started to give up on them as both my A30 and A35 would freeze up toward the end of ANY disc I played.


Well my "new" XA2 solved that (EVERYTHING that was said on this unit PQ, AQ, and build is TRUE).

Just watched "Trading Places" with Eddie Murphy, Dan Ackroyd , and a very yummy Jaime Lee Curtis. Classic 80's comedy with more language and nudity than I remember (hence the R rating), but it looked awesome and sounding pretty decent for the age. NO film grain and only occasionally, the picture looked a little off. (this is on my 46" Sony LCD) . I would rank this up with one of the best PQ in my collection. I watched Eddie's followup "Coming to America" years back and I remember it looked very good as well, these are both Paramount discs.

Still have 3 players hooked up and always look forward to HDDVD movie night.
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post #15 of 28
2/20/13 at 9:31am
Trying to go through my entire collection looking for "coasters" has reopened my eyes to my HD collection. Recent viewings include:

Excalibur
Superman II, Richard Donner Cut
Blade Runner, Final Cut
2001
V for Vendetta

too many movies, so little time.
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post #16 of 28
3/15/13 at 10:23am
Monte Carlo
Casablanca
Troy
Forty Year Old Virgin
Chronicles of Riddick
Serenity

Still watching without many problems. Dazed and Confused did go south on me along with Black Snake Moan.
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post #17 of 28
3/15/13 at 12:03pm
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has anyone compared the HD DVD version of silent hill to the BD version? Which is better?
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post #18 of 28
3/19/13 at 12:55pm
A milestone . . .
We watched "Scary Movie 4" on HD-DVD yesterday. It played perfectly and was just as silly a movie as the rest of the Scary Movies.
This is the last of the never been watched HD-DVDs in my collection.

Update: fired up "Bourne Identity" yesterday. What a terrific film and it played perfectly.

Another update: another day, another Bourne flick on HD-DVD = "The Bourne Supremacy" = a non-stop action flick with excellent PQ & AQ.

"Bourne Ultimatum" was also loaded with action, although some parts were a bit repetitive to scenes & themes in the 1st 2 films. Great pq & aq and this combo disc played just fine.
Edited by Rich86 - 3/22/13 at 8:24am
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post #19 of 28
3/19/13 at 2:21pm
Watched Chronicles of Riddick. Love this disk! I know Vin Diesel is generally lame, but I like this flick.

"Lens him and cleanse him!" ... love it!

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post #20 of 28
3/21/13 at 1:41pm
Broke out my player and watched 300 just the other night. Sooo many good things about that format.
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post #21 of 28
3/21/13 at 4:40pm
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too many to list :-)
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post #22 of 28
3/22/13 at 2:43pm
I just finished ripping my 62 HD DVDs so I can stream them across my network. I watched Stardust last night with my wife. It was nice to be able to watch in another location in the house.

Stace
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post #23 of 28
3/23/13 at 2:25pm
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Originally Posted by sdlehman View Post

I just finished ripping my 62 HD DVDs so I can stream them across my network. I watched Stardust last night with my wife. It was nice to be able to watch in another location in the house.

Stace

What did you use for that?
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post #24 of 28
3/24/13 at 8:48am
I used the trial version of Anydvd HD. They give you 21 days to try it out so I just decided to rip my entire HD DVD library. Once ripped I ran each of them through trial version of Makemkv allowing me to trim foreign languages, subtitles, special features, etc. Streaming to WD TV Live. I was able to stream to the DVD player but it wasn't able to process the files directly putting a strain on my pc. Found the WD TV Live to be what I needed.

Stace
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post #25 of 28
3/24/13 at 8:56am
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Ive thought about doing this too, just to make sure I have backups in case my players die. Might have to dig up the xbox external player and start ripping. what was the average file size after ripping and converting?
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post #26 of 28
3/24/13 at 11:45am
I forgot to add that I used my son's Xbox 360 HD DVD drive as my transport. Just plugged into my USB port on pc and and started ripping. Average size of file when all is said and done is about 15-16 GB. I have 61 movies on a 3 TB external drive and it still shows 1.71 TB available. Good luck!

Stace
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post #27 of 28
3/24/13 at 3:07pm
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Originally Posted by sdlehman View Post

I used the trial version of Anydvd HD. They give you 21 days to try it out so I just decided to rip my entire HD DVD library. Once ripped I ran each of them through trial version of Makemkv allowing me to trim foreign languages, subtitles, special features, etc. Streaming to WD TV Live. I was able to stream to the DVD player but it wasn't able to process the files directly putting a strain on my pc. Found the WD TV Live to be what I needed.
Stace

DVDFab Passkey can handle HD-DVDs also - and it's free in the "Lite" version (which is really all you need).
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post #28 of 28
4/17/13 at 11:09am
Watch " The Fast and the Furious " with some friends the other night. I forgot how much fun that movie was !! Great sound track too !! smile.gif
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