Surprise surprise, 360 HDDVD showed up in my mailbox today

[London Geezer]

I calibrated my display using professional gear including a sensor that measure's NIT, Lumens, Color Temperature, and about 20 other variables, it took me 20+ hours I should have paid the technician the $300. Do you know what NIT is? No? then you didn't do a better job.

Mmm... And here i was, thinking that at the end of the day, it's what my eyes prefer to see on my screen that counts, in my house!! Silly me!



Seriously, some people take this stuff WAY too far, they should get out more and look at reality, where you don't need a bloody NIT, Lumens and Color temperature sensor...

 

[pipo]

Seriously, some people take this stuff WAY too far...

For a test, I think he's doing the right thing.

I do agree with you though.

I'm sure most people on this forum wouldn't notice the difference between a VGA, Component or HDMI connected 360 for example. But yet they think it matters a lot.

Reminds me of a friend who bought a ****load of Monster Cables "because they're the best". Not that he would ever notice the difference of course...

 

[PARANOiA]

Two questions:
1) Is this drive region locked for DVD's?
2) If so, how does one go about unlocking it?

I'd like a proper upscaling DVD player

 

[NavNucST3]

Mmm... And here i was, thinking that at the end of the day, it's what my eyes prefer to see on my screen that counts, in my house!! Silly me!



Seriously, some people take this stuff WAY too far, they should get out more and look at reality, where you don't need a bloody NIT, Lumens and Color temperature sensor...

TBH though, l-b, most people don't get their sets calibrated but in most cases it really can make a noticeable difference, don't knock it. The real question is why isn't there a "Calibrated" setting on TVs, this way CEs can have their horrible in-store settings, and you can immediately change it to "I would like to keep my eyes from being seared setting". I haven't paid for calibration on any of my sets yet, due to their smallish size, but once I get my 70"+ set I will be doing my normal "self-calibration", but will definitely pony up for ISF.

 

[Gubbi]

Reminds me of a friend who bought a ****load of Monster Cables "because they're the best". Not that he would ever notice the difference of course...

Tragic.

I went to a local Hifi-store to get HDMI cables, they were asking $200 for a 5m cable. The clerk said "but, it's really good". I didn't have the time, nor energy, to explain to him that HDMI is digital and hence works 100% or fails 100%. I just went "never mind", went to a super market and picked up 2 for $30 each.

Cheers

 

[Cheezdoodles]

can somebody with a HDDVD drive do me a favor?

If the drive is connected to the X360, what happends if you put a X360 game disc into the HD DVD drive?

Will it run? If does run, hows the noise compared to first generation X360s?

 

[Sis]

can somebody with a HDDVD drive do me a favor?

If the drive is connected to the X360, what happends if you put a X360 game disc into the HD DVD drive?

Will it run? If does run, hows the noise compared to first generation X360s?

I don't have the HD DVD, but I can say that it does not play games. This has been confirmed by Microsoft.

 

[expletive]

I don't have the HD DVD, but I can say that it does not play games. This has been confirmed by Microsoft.

Probably too slow for games and with no standard HD, devs optimized to a given optical disc speed for games to run well. I think this is also the reason we wont see an HD-DVD based 360 for awhile.

 

[NavNucST3]

can somebody with a HDDVD drive do me a favor?

If the drive is connected to the X360, what happends if you put a X360 game disc into the HD DVD drive?

Will it run? If does run, hows the noise compared to first generation X360s?

It will do the same thing as when you place it in a regular DVD player, "Please insert this disc in an Xbox 360"