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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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?

Question, I bought a player but I don't have a remote. The player only outputs over the composite outputs. When I connect HDMI it shows no output. I'm assuming there is a setting on the remote to switch the output. Any tricks to get it to output over HDMI without the remote?

To any HD-XA2 owners, I hope you can help. I've been using it for a while, and even in mode 2 over HDMI with the output showing at 1080p, I've yet to see it actually upscale an SD DVD as it's been so highly praised to do. Is it just not all it's hyped up to be, or am I missing something? I know it's one of the best DVD players out for this reason, but I'm not seeing the benefits I'd like to. Anyone have any advice?

For some reason my A30 cannot output any audio from either HD DVD or regular DVD discs. I get a picture so the cable isn't bad, but I've tried a different one. I've tried every audio output option to no avail.

When I bring up Info it shows this with Audio Output blanked. My Denon X4400H shows no incoming audio. This is so frustrating because my Toshiba XA-2, which I'd paid over $400 for about 5 months before Warner Bros murdered the format two weeks AFTER Christmas doesn't work either after a decade in storage.

I have about 100 HD DVD titles and would like to be able to play them, but it's so weird about the audio and there's so little info because it's a 17 year old deck.

Hope someone has a hint. Thanks.

Does anyone have for sale a HD DVD drive for notebooks? Something like SD-L802B

Cheers! Cannot seem to find one anywhere (upgrading my Dell XPS 210)