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For the discussion of all things HDDVD, the also-ran competitor to Blu-ray.

/r/HDDVD

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Best way to decrypt HD DVDs on Windows?

I miss AnyDVD. I just want to decrypt - I do not want to convert to any other format.

DVDFab can't do it (I emailed them and asked).

MKV changes the format.

5 Comments
2024/12/02
13:45 UTC

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Check out my new account

I just set up a new IG account to unload a ton of discs I recently picked up. Weekly bidding format. Follow me at: https://www.instagram.com/520_filmfest

Thanks!

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2024/11/30
23:24 UTC

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I went home for Thanksgiving…

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2024/11/30
22:01 UTC

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Today grab from some thrifting.

Grab these two titles today that I didn't have.

4 Comments
2024/11/29
21:19 UTC

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Does This Player Have A App Included?

Onn HDMI DVD Player From Walmart For $30.

3 Comments
2024/11/27
20:36 UTC

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Finally selling my HD DVD collection, 85 titles in total

The time has come to part with my HD DVD collection. I had originally planned to collect all the UK releases, but that proved too costly. I'm going to keep my HD DVD player for the 360 and the bluray/hddvd hybrid drive for my PC, but I need to clear out some room before moving house. I'll be sad to see these go as there's something fun about having this collection.

I'm also chucking in my Toshiba HD-E1 player, but that seems to have stopped reading discs.

If anyone is interested to see what I had, the listing is here https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/226463328046

2 Comments
2024/11/23
14:28 UTC

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My very small collection

Ignore the 4k blu ray. It's the only one I own so I just put it on top

10 Comments
2024/11/11
02:46 UTC

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I call this a win

All of these work so I fell happy. Ive tossed out a few so far that had disc rot. Currently have about 20 more to test.

4 Comments
2024/11/10
14:59 UTC

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Any way to hard-reset a TOSHIBA HD A35 HD-DVD player?

I have a TOSHIBA HD A35 HD-DVD player which has been running trouble free for ages. Since last week it hangs while booting/starting up. Is there any way to hard-reset i.e. factory reset the player? Any keystrokes that I can give on the remote control for factory reset?

1 Comment
2024/11/06
12:16 UTC

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I have a question. I hear the Warner Brother HD-DVDs are terrible should I not bother buying any of the harry potter movies on ebay even though they are $5 new?

I am looking for some titles to watch for Halloween, and I want to buy unopened DVD movies that aren't expensive. I am excited about using the Xbox 360 HD DVD player.

5 Comments
2024/10/27
18:25 UTC

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Has anyone 3D printed a black shell for the Xbox 360 HD DVD drive? The white case doesn’t match my black Xbox, and you can’t buy custom shells. Wondering if someone has already made a printable version.

8 Comments
2024/10/26
23:10 UTC

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HD-DVD Authoring in 2024

Hello all,

For the past few weeks I've been going down the rabbit hole of authoring HD-DVDs. Using ULead DVD MovieFactory 5 plus (6 plus works too), I've been able to burn .mpg files encoded in mpeg-2 to HDDVD folders, and then use Imgburn to successfully burn those folders to DVD+Rs, which has created functional discs recognized by my XA2 as HD-DVDs.

HOWEVER

I know it's possible to do this on standard DVD recordable media. But that only gives you a max of 8.5 gigs of data. My goal is to burn the entirety of Regular Show to HD-DVD (using a blu-ray rip of all seasons and stuff) to HD-DVD. But with how big the mpg files end up, I can't do that on DVD-R DLs without using close to a hundred discs. So naturally I want to find a way to do it on higher capacity discs. I do actually own a fair number of HD DVD-Rs, and even a fair bit of RWs as well. However, there's really only one burner that can make use of them, and it's incredibly rare and only was used in like 2 Qosmio laptops. I don't really consider it to be an option. My next course of action was to try this with BD-Rs. I know that may sound a little silly, but as all that's happening with the DVD+Rs is the same damn file folder being written to the disc, gotta be worth a shot. Turns out an HD-DVD player won't recognize a typical BD-R as even a disc, as they're not reflective enough to let it know it's there. It'll only try to read BD-R LTH discs, which are more reflective (though of lesser quality, there's a lot of info on that stuff, do research if you'd like). So I've gotten my HDDVD transport folders and tried burning them onto my BD-R LTH discs, but the player simply can't recognize them as HD-DVDs.

This is what I'd like help on. I know that the DVD+R HD-DVDs are being burned with the red laser. Now, what would the player read them with? The red or the blue? And if it is the red one, why would it still show up as an HD-DVD? Why is that with regular old DVD tech you can do this, but it doesn't work on BD-Rs even though the blue laser is the same in both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray? It's the same data being burned on both discs, so would the blue laser being used to write to the BD-R somehow cause problems with the HD-DVDs ability to read it, even though they're the same wavelength?

I know this is weird and experimental anyway, so any help is greatly appreciated. I just really don't want to have to use a million DVD-R DLs, and hey, if we can figure out a way to make this work, the format could potentially have a niche revival.

3 Comments
2024/10/15
03:00 UTC

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TOSHIBA SE-R0252 Remote

This is the Toshiba remote that came with my HDDVD player.

10 Comments
2024/10/07
17:28 UTC

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This dude literally used my photo from a post I made? Thoughts?

6 Comments
2024/10/07
14:41 UTC

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Dus anyone know a good way to stop disc rot

15 Comments
2024/10/04
23:43 UTC

76

Just found a PC with HD DVD built in

13 Comments
2024/09/28
17:53 UTC

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Can anyone offer advice on the Toshiba HD-A2?

I was at my local thrift store today picking up some blue rays and decided to check out the hardware section. I saw this unit for $6 and decided to grab it as I wouldn't mind adding hd dvd to my collection. The unit powers on and seems to work fine other than the fact it will not recognize any dvd. I don't have any hd dvds to try yet. If I need to replace the laser does anyone know what is a good place to buy a replacement? Any info would be appreciated.

1 Comment
2024/09/28
01:09 UTC

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Having trouble hooking up the HD DVD player up to Xbox 360

Recently picked up the HD DVD player add on for Xbox 360. I don't have the installation disc, which from the research I've done, I don't think I need. But the Xbox won't recognize the player...

With that said, do I need a specific type of usb to mini USB cable? The HD dvd player didn't come with one, so I tried using the charging cable from PS3. Any sort of help would be appreciated. Thanks!

11 Comments
2024/09/27
13:37 UTC

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Got some of the rarest stuff out there. 15 of them! Still need a burner, if anyone has an SD-L912...

10 Comments
2024/09/22
17:47 UTC

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Has anyone successfully ripped this movie?

I bought 3 copies of this and none of them Rip... I just want the lossless audio damn it.

Are all of these disc rotted?

9 Comments
2024/09/22
16:27 UTC

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God do I love ripping HDDVD’s

11 Comments
2024/09/14
05:27 UTC

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