I'm not a fanboy of either camp. Just an early adopter that has both a PS3 and the 360 HD-DVD addon. One major difference that I've noticed is that the uncompressed 5.1 soundtracks coming out of the PS3 are vastly superior to the 360's sound for HD-DVD. I don't have a receiver with HDMI (yet), but the digital out to my current receiver can apparently tell the difference. I'm sure if I had bought a stand-alone HD-DVD player I'd have a different experience, but first impressions... And I am glad I waited because I will be picking up The Matrix Trilogy on Blu-ray. Apparently sometime in 2008.
You are correct. HD DVD add-on does have inferior sound compared to PS3, HD DVD standalones and Blu-Ray standalones. It is still not crap, but you do get DD 5.1 instead of TrueHD or DD+ thus some difference.
For majority of people though, this won't come as a huge problem as they are quite obviously very happy with DD 5.1 on DVDs to begin with and HD DVD add-on price right now is low so it's kind of smaller sacrifice.
During HD-DVD playback have you gone to the Advanced audio settings? If you do set it to DTS (1.5 Mb/s). The difference is massive between the regular DD (~600Kb/s) stream.
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I'm not a fanboy of either camp. Just an early adopter that has both a PS3 and the 360 HD-DVD addon. One major difference that I've noticed is that the uncompressed 5.1 soundtracks coming out of the PS3 are vastly superior to the 360's sound for HD-DVD. I don't have a receiver with HDMI (yet), but the digital out to my current receiver can apparently tell the difference. I'm sure if I had bought a stand-alone HD-DVD player I'd have a different experience, but first impressions... And I am glad I waited because I will be picking up The Matrix Trilogy on Blu-ray. Apparently sometime in 2008.
You are correct. HD DVD add-on does have inferior sound compared to PS3, HD DVD standalones and Blu-Ray standalones. It is still not crap, but you do get DD 5.1 instead of TrueHD or DD+ thus some difference.
For majority of people though, this won't come as a huge problem as they are quite obviously very happy with DD 5.1 on DVDs to begin with and HD DVD add-on price right now is low so it's kind of smaller sacrifice.
During HD-DVD playback have you gone to the Advanced audio settings? If you do set it to DTS (1.5 Mb/s).
The difference is massive between the regular DD (~600Kb/s) stream.
Wow, look at the Amazon stats!!! In the last week HD-DVD has come back to almost level with Blu-Ray:
http://eproductwars.com/dvd/index.cfm