X-Box 360 HD VS Other HD DVD players

Home Theatre
Home Theatre Posts: 469
edited November 2006 in Electronics
If anyone knows how does the X BOX HD player compare with other HD-DVD players like Toshiba and RCa for movies and music? How can you get
DTS through this machine if hooked up to a receiver?
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  • jhermance
    jhermance Posts: 214
    edited November 2006
    DTS can go through optical cable and they do make monster cable upgrades that have them and i have been also told that they are coming out with o unit that is going to have a hdmi output aswell
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  • Home Theatre
    Home Theatre Posts: 469
    edited November 2006
    I will just wait for the HDMI model to come out. I wonder what the price on it will be.


    My list of things to buy is:

    New front speakers+TV
    SVS 10
    HD X BOX 360 or HD-Dvd player
    New Pioneer Elite Receiver
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  • Shizelbs
    Shizelbs Posts: 7,433
    edited November 2006
    HT, make your first purchase among those the sub. Thats what I would do.

    jhermance, can you cite or reference anywhere that says they are going to come out with a unit with HDMI.
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  • mutelight
    mutelight Posts: 1,054
    edited November 2006
    As of right now Microsoft has no plans to release an HDMI. Also one thing you have to be aware of that all audio that is played back from the drive is Dolby Digital, regardless of the format you chose on the disc. Since all the audio and video is processed via software on the 360 it is decoded and then re-encoded to DD5.1. Fortunately since this is all software based there is room for improvement via updates.
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  • lomic
    lomic Posts: 407
    edited November 2006
    Broadcom just announced release of their dual Blu-Ray/HD-DVD chip. I'd wait for those drives to start rolling out in ~6 months unless you're sure one format is going to fail.

    I've used the Samsung Blu-Ray and Toshiba HD-DVD players at work, and couldn't say I'd buy either at this point. They're both extremely slow booting up/loading/menus, and build quality doesn't seem to match the price tag.
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  • Home Theatre
    Home Theatre Posts: 469
    edited November 2006
    I read reviews of the X-Box HD-Dvd and it is usually to be very quick.
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  • mutelight
    mutelight Posts: 1,054
    edited November 2006
    Home Theatre wrote:
    I read reviews of the X-Box HD-Dvd and it is usually to be very quick.

    It is quick, discs only take a matter of seconds to start up from the dashboard.
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  • Home Theatre
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    edited November 2006
    X-Box HD-Dvd looks so good!
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