Originally posted by: adywan
OK well i've just finished testing both the PAL & NTSC versions on the HD-XE1 HD-DVD(the Uk version of the XA2) player. both played fine without any problems. So it has to be a bug with the Firmware on the NTSC only players. I also tested it on a very old Bush DVD player that has always choked at the slightest problem on a DVD and again the NTSC played fine. Someone has pointed out that when loaded into DVDREMAKE it shows some errors. well i have checked this and although that program reports the errors they are just remote button commands, present on both the PAL & NTSC, but these would have no impact on the playback of the DVD. My guess after all this is that its just the TOSHIBA HD_DVD NTSC players that just don't like Procoder encoded mpegs due to their firmware. If you do a google search you will see threads stating that their players did the same with some retail HD-DVDs before an updated firmware. Same freezing issues mentioned here. Good luck with ever getting a fixed firmware now Toshiba have dropped out of the HD-DVD market though. And it definitely does seem localised to just the Toshiba NTSC players. Seems like the XBOX360 HD-DVD drives play it fine. Also it has been mentioned that the trivia track disappears on the NTSC when skipping chapters. has anyone else had this problem? I tested it on the PS3 & my Panasonic DVD-recorder and i can't see a problem.
Well i'm half way through the isolated score track for the DVD-9's. Originally i was going to remix the track into 5.1 but its now looking like it will just be stereo due to disc space.
OK well i've just finished testing both the PAL & NTSC versions on the HD-XE1 HD-DVD(the Uk version of the XA2) player. both played fine without any problems. So it has to be a bug with the Firmware on the NTSC only players. I also tested it on a very old Bush DVD player that has always choked at the slightest problem on a DVD and again the NTSC played fine. Someone has pointed out that when loaded into DVDREMAKE it shows some errors. well i have checked this and although that program reports the errors they are just remote button commands, present on both the PAL & NTSC, but these would have no impact on the playback of the DVD. My guess after all this is that its just the TOSHIBA HD_DVD NTSC players that just don't like Procoder encoded mpegs due to their firmware. If you do a google search you will see threads stating that their players did the same with some retail HD-DVDs before an updated firmware. Same freezing issues mentioned here. Good luck with ever getting a fixed firmware now Toshiba have dropped out of the HD-DVD market though. And it definitely does seem localised to just the Toshiba NTSC players. Seems like the XBOX360 HD-DVD drives play it fine. Also it has been mentioned that the trivia track disappears on the NTSC when skipping chapters. has anyone else had this problem? I tested it on the PS3 & my Panasonic DVD-recorder and i can't see a problem.
Well i'm half way through the isolated score track for the DVD-9's. Originally i was going to remix the track into 5.1 but its now looking like it will just be stereo due to disc space.
Okay, posting cos I said I would.
Got the NTSC version, same way as the PAL.
Mounted and burned same was as the PAL.
Played it on the same machine as the PAL.
Same errors that everyone else was reporting! (I was surprised!)
Freeze at the Ep IV revisted logo.
Chapter skipping put me into the main menu.
Played it fine, but at 2:13 the clock stopped (pic and sound continued) and then as the scene cuts out to the long shot of the Tantive and the SD... FREEZE!
So.. the NTSC version won;t play were the PAL one did.
Has anyone else other than Ady and Me checke dthe NTSC one on a UK HD player?
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