The released HD DVD titles use Microsoft's VC-1, not MPEG-4, so the problems are either with Microsoft or Toshiba. Unsurprisingly, neither has shown much inclination to fix supposedly 1st-generation (more like pre-release) hardware, even though it's using industry-standard PC parts.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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The released HD DVD titles use Microsoft's VC-1, not MPEG-4, so the problems are either with Microsoft or Toshiba. Unsurprisingly, neither has shown much inclination to fix supposedly 1st-generation (more like pre-release) hardware, even though it's using industry-standard PC parts.