The LG BH 200 shows us that this ought to have been a masterpiece of a dual format deck, which was the original intention with this model. It's a damned shame they switched to single format only when there are so many inexpensive HD DVD movies out there to be had - and a bit of a surprise they'd cut their own noses off like that when so many HD DVD owners would be likely to be interested in an excellent dual player.
Still, the BH 200 will keep me (and those who have discovered it's charms) happy for a long time yet.
All it needed was a firmware update to become the best player out there and it got it this year.
I wonder if this BD 300 is so easy to hack for multi-region SD DVD & multi-region Blu-ray? No fuss, no hardware required just a good old remote code. As it ought to be - and isn't on any other Blu-ray player.
Funny thing is that it wouldn't take much (comparatively speaking) to make Netflix et al compatible with HD DVD systems. It'd just be a matter of shipping a disk (which could be a 3X DVD, it's not going to have much content and certainly will not need spinning at 3X) with a basic Advanced Content stub that does nothing other than connect to an AC server at Netflix. Everything's built in to the HD DVD spec to make this possible.
The "awkward" part is setting up the server. It would have been a nice parting gift by Toshiba, Microsoft, et al to actually put in place turnkey ways of setting up such servers so it was easy for online content providers to support the million or so people with HD DVD players out there, but, alas...
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The LG BH 200 shows us that this ought to have been a masterpiece of a dual format deck, which was the original intention with this model.
It's a damned shame they switched to single format only when there are so many inexpensive HD DVD movies out there to be had - and a bit of a surprise they'd cut their own noses off like that when so many HD DVD owners would be likely to be interested in an excellent dual player.
Still, the BH 200 will keep me (and those who have discovered it's charms) happy for a long time yet.
All it needed was a firmware update to become the best player out there and it got it this year.
I wonder if this BD 300 is so easy to hack for multi-region SD DVD & multi-region Blu-ray?
No fuss, no hardware required just a good old remote code.
As it ought to be - and isn't on any other Blu-ray player.
Funny thing is that it wouldn't take much (comparatively speaking) to make Netflix et al compatible with HD DVD systems. It'd just be a matter of shipping a disk (which could be a 3X DVD, it's not going to have much content and certainly will not need spinning at 3X) with a basic Advanced Content stub that does nothing other than connect to an AC server at Netflix. Everything's built in to the HD DVD spec to make this possible.
The "awkward" part is setting up the server. It would have been a nice parting gift by Toshiba, Microsoft, et al to actually put in place turnkey ways of setting up such servers so it was easy for online content providers to support the million or so people with HD DVD players out there, but, alas...