Re: HD-DVD is COMPLETE

hoodaguy, there is a dedicated sticky thread consisting of 219 pages(!) on the BD30 on AVSForum:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=936144

You may want to ignore the issues reported on the first 100 pages or so, since firmware upgrades have addressed most of them.

Movielover,

I think the BD50 will be able bitstream DTHD and dts HD-MA via HDMI.

gvortex, I'm sorry but I have to disagree with you. I was one of the so-called "early adopters" for DVD when it first came out and purchased a Pioneer player. Yes it was like $700, but that thing still looks like a higher end player compared to most available today. The same was with my portable Panasonic DVD player. It was nearly $2000, and now you can get a portable player for about $100. However, the new ones just don't have the same pizzazz as my original. I'm not even going to get into HD DVD.

Tony thanks for the reassurance. Maybe I should hold out for the new model, or wait until it comes out and then pick up the 30 cheaper.

There are no players currently available that can decode DTS-HD MA. That includes the BD30. It can only bitstream it to a receiver that's capable of decoding it.

The first two players that will be able to decode every hi-def audio format will be the Panny BD50 and the Pioneer BDP-05FD.

As I understand it, it can do both but for some reason can't sent it PCM over HDMI. Anyways it makes a great stopgap for someone like me who doesn't have a 1.3 receiver yet and needs the analog outs for a little while longer.

Edit: Ah sorry I was referring to the BD-50 not the BD-30

[Post edited by Movielover316 on Feb 16, 2008]

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gvortex, I'm sorry but I have to disagree with you. I was one of the so-called "early adopters" for DVD when it first came out and purchased a Pioneer player. Yes it was like $700, but that thing still looks like a higher end player compared to most available today. The same was with my portable Panasonic DVD player. It was nearly $2000, and now you can get a portable player for about $100. However, the new ones just don't have the same pizzazz as my original. I'm not even going to get into HD DVD.

My main point was the going forward all Blu-ray players will be very much capable of playing all of the features of a disc, and these are the players that the general public will be buying. Not the ones that were released a year or two ago. So even though it took a little while, Blu-ray is very much complete.

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As I understand it, it can do both but for some reason can't sent it PCM over HDMI. Anyways it makes a great stopgap for someone like me who doesn't have a 1.3 receiver yet and needs the analog outs for a little while longer.

Edit: Ah sorry I was referring to the BD-50 not the BD-30

The most disappointing news (if you can call it that) about the BD50 is that it won't have 7.1 analog outs after all. It was originally going to have it, but it was scrapped in the end to cut the some of the cost of the player.

Yea but tony you didn't put the rest of what I said when you quoted me. I also said..."just wishful thinking that's all".

I'm not putting any spin on anything. I know what's coming. I was born at night but not last night.

eh, the only people who would really take advantage of 7.1 analog outputs are people with high end pre-amp/pre-pro's and I believe marantz will be making a 2000 dollar Blu-Ray player for those folks.

Well lastnight I was looking at Blu ray players and saw one from Denon that had only an HDMI output. No analog outs, no s-video, no optical, no nothing just HDMI out.