actually, xemumanic, the 360 drive has some major drawbacks compared to toshiba's players, starting with absolutely NO way to access any lossless tracks, be they dolby trueHD, or DTS-HDMA. so that's a big problem. also, the toshiba players do a MUCH better job of upscaling standard dvd's than the 360, especially the models with the reon chip in them (i.e. XA2)
As far as I knew, no HD DVD players do that..........I mean outputting the bitstream at least, and I doubt decoding them either. So I went easy on HD DVD and just didn't mention that at all.
But coincidently, there's a new article that explains it all for both formats.....just skip past the explanations of what each codec is (you should know that stuff already) and read that part about what each format does on most players.
The XBOX 360 HD-DVD only has drawbacks if you plug it into a 360. I've got mine plugged into my home theatre pc outputting 5.1 to the analog inputs on my receiver. PowerDVD decodes it just fine. Cheap and easy way to get Dolby True HD.
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actually, xemumanic, the 360 drive has some major drawbacks compared to toshiba's players, starting with absolutely NO way to access any lossless tracks, be they dolby trueHD, or DTS-HDMA. so that's a big problem. also, the toshiba players do a MUCH better job of upscaling standard dvd's than the 360, especially the models with the reon chip in them (i.e. XA2)
As far as I knew, no HD DVD players do that..........I mean outputting the bitstream at least, and I doubt decoding them either. So I went easy on HD DVD and just didn't mention that at all.
But coincidently, there's a new article that explains it all for both formats.....just skip past the explanations of what each codec is (you should know that stuff already) and read that part about what each format does on most players.
http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/Joshua_Zyber/High-Def_FAQ:_Blu-ray_and_HD_DVD_Audio_Explained/1064
The XBOX 360 HD-DVD only has drawbacks if you plug it into a 360. I've got mine plugged into my home theatre pc outputting 5.1 to the analog inputs on my receiver. PowerDVD decodes it just fine. Cheap and easy way to get Dolby True HD.