Planet Earth on BR and HD-DVD

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  • bknauss
    bknauss Posts: 1,441
    edited April 2007
    MikeC78 wrote: »
    I'm just curious, where did you do your research??

    There are HD DVD players that are HDMI 1.3 compliant, more so than BR. The real question is why do you need it, you don't need HDMI 1.3 to pass TrueHD, DTS-HD, or lossless audio.

    Mike


    Mike - according to the Wikipedia entry for HDMI, version 1.3 is where you get the passthrough for DTS-HD and TrueHD. My understanding is that some players with previous version of the standard have internal decoding. Also, all of the HD-DVD players that have 1.2 or earlier do DTS core decoding... which is basically the DTS we currently are used to on regular DVDs, not the possibility of DTS-HD Master goodness.

    Looks like I made a boo boo and missed the HD-XA2 that has HDMI 1.3 and DTS-HD internal decoding.
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  • bknauss
    bknauss Posts: 1,441
    edited April 2007
    fireshoes wrote: »
    All of the 2nd gen Toshiba HD DVD players do 5.1 TrueHD and 1st gen players had 5.1 TrueHD enabled with 2.0 firmware.

    Doh! Crutchfield has old info. Still only does DTS core, though. Blah. The Tosh site doesn't mention is the A2 and A20 do HDMI 1.3, so don't know if you can do the passthrough.
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  • MikeC78
    MikeC78 Posts: 2,315
    edited April 2007
    I hate to point people to another forum, but this link has some VERY good information regarding HDMI 1.3.

    http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=789994

    The new HD-A20 does 1.3 also.
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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,520
    edited April 2007
    I hate to point people to another forum
    Why? There's a lot of great info on the net and it all cannot be found at Club Polk. Other A/V fourms are not our enemy.
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  • bknauss
    bknauss Posts: 1,441
    edited April 2007
    Mike - not a problem pointing toward other forums. My problem with AVS is that its sometimes near impossible to find simple info like I was looking for. Unless you follow threads on products everyday, you're going to miss 1 or 1230812039213 pages, then you miss all the good info! AVS is just too huge for its own good.
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  • MikeC78
    MikeC78 Posts: 2,315
    edited April 2007
    bknauss,

    I just find it maybe rude sometimes to point people to other forums. I personally learned alot of good information on AVS, like you said though, AVS is too huge and it is hard to find information some times.

    Mike
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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,520
    edited May 2007
    Well, I caved from the pressure of my wife and bought the BD set. I was able to use some stackable coupon codes for Warner.com and got a good price. We finished up disk #1 last night, this is some of the most impressive film making and worth every penny. So glad I bought this, seriously great stuff here and with the HD image on an 85" screen, wow!
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  • Frank Z
    Frank Z Posts: 5,860
    edited May 2007
    Bought the BR set a few weeks back. Excellant stuff.
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  • AndyGwis
    AndyGwis Posts: 3,655
    edited May 2007
    I was able to use some stackable coupon codes for Warner.com

    I keep hearing about these Warner.com coupons. Where do you get them? How do you use them? Etc.
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  • wingnut4772
    wingnut4772 Posts: 7,519
    edited May 2007
    I've been watching this on Discovery HD and it is an absolutely amazing series. I jusr cringe though every time Sigourney says 'warter' for water.:D
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  • BIZILL
    BIZILL Posts: 5,432
    edited May 2007
    can any owners confirm, no sigourney? i will eventually get this in the hd dvd form, but i've got matrix trilogy on my list that takes precedence.

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  • fireshoes
    fireshoes Posts: 3,167
    edited May 2007
    Yes, they went to the original BBC narration by David Attenborough. I haven't sat down to watch everything yet, but I've thrown a couple discs in on tv's at work and some of the footage is incredible. Working around HDTV's all day, there's not a whole lot that blows me away, but this consistently does.
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