Originally posted by: adywan
Sorry that you are having problems playing the DVD in your HD-DVD players. I don't know what make those players are but if its Toshiba then i can understand the problem. i had a Toshiba DVD player that was very picky on not only media but also the bitrates during playback. the NTSC DVD-5 has a lower bitrate on the menus and special features than its PAL counterpart. This was unavoidable or the NTSC version would have had only a couple of the special features that were featured on the PAL disc. But that doesn't explain why you are having problems playing the movie. But it seems to be HD-DVD players that are having this problem, and only certain models. I'm just glad i went with bluray
Sorry that you are having problems playing the DVD in your HD-DVD players. I don't know what make those players are but if its Toshiba then i can understand the problem. i had a Toshiba DVD player that was very picky on not only media but also the bitrates during playback. the NTSC DVD-5 has a lower bitrate on the menus and special features than its PAL counterpart. This was unavoidable or the NTSC version would have had only a couple of the special features that were featured on the PAL disc. But that doesn't explain why you are having problems playing the movie. But it seems to be HD-DVD players that are having this problem, and only certain models. I'm just glad i went with bluray
Since I am having the problem in the same exact spot as was previously mentioned, I don't think it has to do with the media, but it may be a bitrate issue (it is the NTSC version that I have, not sure about anyone else that may be having issues with HD players)... I've never had problems playing burns on the A3 before now, and this is NOT the disc to start with!
With the news that Toshiba is out of the HD hardware game, I guess we'll all be going blu-ray soon enough.
I guess I'll have to break out the old dvd player (or buy an upconverter)...