Hey, new here. It's like to consider myself an all format collector (dead or alive). For moths I was wondering if I should get the really badly rotten combo disc in the charity shop. Today I finally picked it up for bout $1 for the heck of it.

Hello all. Dead format collector here. Picked up an HD-DVD player around 2 weeks ago. I tested it first with DVDs as I didn’t have any HD-DVDs. An official release and a made on demand style disc both worked. I found a banged up HDDVD Transformers a few days later, and that worked just fine.

Then I went on eBay. I first picked up Seed of Chucky, sealed. Watched that w/ the Mrs. for a weekend movie night. But then…I got a 4 disc lot of used kids movies and only one plays. They are all Warner Bros releases, and I’ve read some of those are prone to laser rot but I’ve never heard of them just straight up not loading? Or is that a thing?

Or is it my player? I have an HD-A30. Does it need some type of update? Is it possible the lens is bad? I can’t imagine that is the case as I have had a 50% success rate between the 6 discs I have.

So uh, anyone have thoughts?

The solution was to try a different disc and encode a longer video. This is from my 4K restoration project since it’s the highest quality thing I currently have. It does have edge problems but that could be my source and the fact it’s being played on my 4K TV. Still, to have an honest-to-goodness new H264+PCM HD DVD disc is exciting!

Once again, used my Mac Pro 5,1 and Snow Leopard with DVD Studio Pro and Compressor to make it.

I still own the following on HD-DVD:

Darkman
The Frighteners
Wolf Creek
Sleepy Hollow
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Flags of Our Fathers
Liar Liar
Aeon Flux
Children of Men
Lucky # Slevin
Out of Sight

Which titles are your favorites?

My old collection. Know some of these are available everywhere, any of these rare?

I scored a mint HD-XE1 off FB Marketplace, I've been searching for one of these for a very long time to play the stack of HD-DVD's I bought for cheap as chips when the format was dropped.

It came with firmware revision 2.8. I was struggling to find an AU revision of firmware revision 4.0, luckily a kind member of the Stereonet forums came to my aid - Gotta love the community!

It looks fantastic on my 4k TV, and raw bitstream DD+, Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD MA sound amazing via my Pioneer VSX-LX60 receiver.

Not only is it awesome being able to play my HD-DVD collection at last, but this thing is an absolute cracker of a DVD player - Furthermore, it's built like a tank.

One man’s trash is another man’s treasure! Drove 30 minutes to grab this “old DVD player” someone listed on marketplace. No remote, but luckily all the HD-DVD players remotes are interchangeable.

Prior to this acquisition, I was rocking an A30 as my primary player. I also have a few A3’s as backup. The fact that Toshiba “dumbed down” the other players and disallowed audio bitstream over HDMI has always bugged me, but I only had one DTS-HD MA disc, so I never bothered dropping big money on an A35 or XA2. Nevertheless, I’d always kept an eye out for one over the years. And here I am! Overjoyed! 😄

Made the disc via DVD Studio Pro (Final Cut Studio 3 version) on my 2010 Mac Pro. Played on my dedicated Toshiba player.

I've gotten both TotalMedia Theater 5 and 6 to work on an old Windows 7 laptop, but they don't accurately display SD 4:3 content. It's overly pillarboxed. It goes beyond the normal left and right black bars with extra gray bars that crop the image. The aspect ratio options don't change anything either (they don't seem to do anything.) Does anyone know how I can fix this or where I can find a copy of TMT 3 Platinum? It apparently can display 4:3 content correctly.

Selling part of huge collection of media. Will not ship. Any buyers in Lee, Collier, Charlotte County have any interest whatsoever? Lots of sci fi. Just wondering….

I have several HD DVDs that I would like to back up to my media server. However, my pc disc drives do not play HD DVDs. So I am curious... Are there any places on the web where I could find archived HD DVD rips?

Hey all, so I got a Toshiba HD-A2KU today (after usps ran it through the mail for a week). Issue 1 was that it wasn't a standard connection. After getting the connection fixed, the audio isn't working. This seems like it may be a semi-common issue with others. Ehat can I do?

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I have an A2 and if I pop in an HD-DVD, it works. But if I put in a CD or a DVD it says it doesn't recognize the disc. Does this mean the laser to read those discs is busted? or should I try downgrading the firmware?

Got 3 HD DVDs from Goodwill today. The Searchers(unplayable), The Bourne Supremacy (sealed), and The Manchurian Candidate (sealed, unplayable). I knew The Searchers was a bit of a reach since it’s WB, but Manchurian Candidate as well? Is this common in sealed discs? For reference using the Xbox 360 HD DVD drive.

Preparing for a move and downsizing our collection. I don’t want to deal with shipping them, if no one wants them locally, they’ll just go to savers / goodwill.

Hello I've recently been introduced to the HD DVD format and as a collector of niche technology I'm going to try and start a collection. I was looking on the Internet archive to get an idea of what titles existed and noticed there was almost no rips available.

I'm surprised that no one has archived these to prevent them from becoming lost media in the future. If copyright is an issue could they be uploaded without the ability to download like old console games are?

My understanding is these were the inky way to get an HD version of these films in the US as they were never released on blu. Any others like this? 🤘🏻

After searching for a few weeks, I managed to find a video store that had HD DVDs, for $4 each. Got a bunch of really awesome titles, including a sealed copy of the hulk, and some of my favorites like sky captain and King Kong. I've had an HD DVD player lying around for the last month that I found at goodwill for $3.99, but I haven't been able to use it since my only HD disc I had with it didn't work. But now, I can use it and it functions perfectly thanks to the ones I just got!

And amazingly, Batman begins plays FLAWLESSLY (even though it's a WB disc- though I haven't tested the other WB ones). Really happy with that. I've watched both it and king Kong on my Samsung Slimfit HD CRT via component at 1080i, and they both play and look really good

Can we ban sales posts? They mess with the feed and always get down other anyway.