More bad news, X360's HD-DVD related

A new HD DVD designed to help calibrate HDTVs has hit a problem with the Xbox 360, apparently because the disc manufacturer failed to test it extensively on non-Toshiba players.  It will be the first disc to use an Xbox 360 firmware update to fix an HD DVD playback problem.

Digital Video Essentials, the most comprehensive calibration disc for HD DVD, was released last week.  In the days following, the disc creator's online forums lit up with complaints from owners of the Xbox 360 HD DVD drive, saying the disc would skip and sometimes even crash.

The HD DVD release of Digital Video Essentials was anticipated among videophiles, after countless release date changes made it the most delayed title for the hi-def format.

A spokesperson for DVD International, the publisher of the disc, wrote, "As many of you have seen, 'Digital Video Essentials' HD DVD experiences severe playback issues on Xbox 360 HD DVD add on players. All other players have been tested extensively in their current firmware build. All Toshiba players

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TLHBOthedarkomen

Yeah. That quick firmware download is an absolute killer. :| 

You have to download a small patch... wow, grasping are we? :roll:

[QUOTE="thedarkomen"]TLHBONinja-Vox

Yeah. That quick firmware download is an absolute killer. :| 

but why? why go thru all these problems before hand?

why is it that everything ms releases something has to go wrong?

You have to download a small patch... wow, grasping are we? :roll:

 

-Spock-

the patch is not out yet and nobody knows when.

apparently because the disc manufacturer

Maybe you should read you're own article. Whjy is it MS's fault when the company that produced the disc failed to test it before release?

You know Toshiba helped co-design the 360 HD-DVD add-on?

Good thing alot of 360 owners don't care for HD movie playback. As you can see from the discounted units found in Sam's clubs for $72.

Not like you can't just buy the DVD version and calibrate your TV that way.

P.S.

This is a games forum. So if your post gets locked... Don't ask why.

True videophiles that were looking forward to this callibration disk would never use the HD-DVD add-on to watch HD-DVD movies nor the PS3 to watch BR movies. That kind of people use dedicated players...jachichorro

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[QUOTE="thedarkomen"]TLHBOGermanShepard06

Yeah. That quick firmware download is an absolute killer. :| 

but why? why go thru all these problems before hand?

why is it that everything ms releases something has to go wrong?

 I don't know if this is MS fault...but sometimes it makes me think does Microsoft even have a QA department?

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[QUOTE="thedarkomen"]TLHBOGermanShepard06

Yeah. That quick firmware download is an absolute killer. :| 

but why? why go thru all these problems before hand?

why is it that everything ms releases something has to go wrong?

So I guess TCHBO because the PS3 recieves firmware updates. :roll:

[QUOTE="jachichorro"]True videophiles that were looking forward to this callibration disk would never use the HD-DVD add-on to watch HD-DVD movies nor the PS3 to watch BR movies. That kind of people use dedicated players...donalbane

LOL sorry :( 

A new HD DVD designed to help calibrate HDTVs has hit a problem with the Xbox 360, apparently because the disc manufacturer failed to test it extensively on non-Toshiba players. It will be the first disc to use an Xbox 360 firmware update to fix an HD DVD playback problem.

Digital Video Essentials, the most comprehensive calibration disc for HD DVD, was released last week. In the days following, the disc creator's online forums lit up with complaints from owners of the Xbox 360 HD DVD drive, saying the disc would skip and sometimes even crash.

The HD DVD release of Digital Video Essentials was anticipated among videophiles, after countless release date changes made it the most delayed title for the hi-def format.

A spokesperson for DVD International, the publisher of the disc, wrote, "As many of you have seen, 'Digital Video Essentials' HD DVD experiences severe playback issues on Xbox 360 HD DVD add on players. All other players have been tested extensively in their current firmware build. All Toshiba players

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GermanShepard06

You mean I have to download a small patch?

*Puts gun in mouth, blows brains out

[QUOTE="thedarkomen"]TLHBONinja-Vox

Yeah. That quick firmware download is an absolute killer. :|

This is worse than the lack of games on the Ps3!Jewish_GameBoy

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[QUOTE="thedarkomen"]TLHBOGermanShepard06

Yeah. That quick firmware download is an absolute killer. :| 

but why? why go thru all these problems before hand?

why is it that everything ms releases something has to go wrong?

[QUOTE="Ninja-Vox"]

[QUOTE="thedarkomen"]TLHBOGermanShepard06

Yeah. That quick firmware download is an absolute killer. :|

but why? why go thru all these problems before hand?

why is it that everything ms releases something has to go wrong?

yet somehow when theres an issue with ps3's u see all the cows preaching "nothing a firmware update wont fix"

seriously u guys try to hard, y not just enjoy your console , but then again its sw, im expecting too much 

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[QUOTE="thedarkomen"]TLHBOGermanShepard06

Yeah. That quick firmware download is an absolute killer. :|

but why? why go thru all these problems before hand?

why is it that everything ms releases something has to go wrong?

Didn;t the PS3 need an update out of the box :roll: 

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[QUOTE="thedarkomen"]TLHBOtoxicmog

Yeah. That quick firmware download is an absolute killer. :|

but why? why go thru all these problems before hand?

why is it that everything ms releases something has to go wrong?

Didn;t the PS3 need an update out of the box :roll:

i believe the ps3 has gone thru a number of updates since its release. 

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[QUOTE="thedarkomen"]TLHBOlawlessx

Yeah. That quick firmware download is an absolute killer. :|

but why? why go thru all these problems before hand?

why is it that everything ms releases something has to go wrong?

Didn;t the PS3 need an update out of the box :roll:

i believe the ps3 has gone thru a number of updates since its release.

I got one today, the 1.70 patch was so big to donwload :S as it had everything else i didn;t have before it