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Tried to watch Kiss Kiss Bang Bang when the in-laws were in town (a month ago?), but it seems that either my HD-DVD/Blu-ray combo drive is acting up, or Windows 8 Consumer Preview and TMT5 don't play nice with HD-DVDs, because the video was extremely choppy. Blu-ray plays seamlessly... as does DVD (which is how I ended up watching the movie, since the choppiness was just too distracting). A couple weeks ago, I tried The Good Shepard, and the same thing happened. So, I copied the files to my hard drive and... it played fine. WTF. So, for some reason, Windows 8 / TMT5 doesn't want me to play HD-DVDs directly, but has no problem playing the HD-DVD files from my hard drive. Very strange. I had no problems like this when I had Windows 8 Dev Preview installed, but something changed in the Consumer Preview to cause this to happen.

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I only had about 30 or so titles on HD-DVD and I scored most of them on the cheap when HD-DVD's demise was near. There were only a handful of titles that I paid more than $5-10 for (Children of Men, Transformers, The Bourne Ultimatum, and a few others).

All of my Warner HD-DVDs were replaced on the cheap as I used either the DVD-2-Blu or Red-2-Blu trade-in programs when they were available. I've reclaimed a few Universal titles when they've been priced $4.99 - $9.99 during sales at Amazon and Fry's. The only titles I haven't made a serious attempt at replacing have been my Paramount HD-DVDs. The only Paramount title I made the switch to Blu-ray so far has been Anchorman when the Best Buy exclusive came out.

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Sometime in 2010. I didn't take any media with me when I moved.

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It was probably about 6 months ago. We watched Hot Fuzz because that's still one of the titles I haven't switched to Blu-ray yet. I still have probably about 7 or 8 HD-DVDs that I haven't switched over.

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Not in a while. Probably The Thing around 6 months ago. I moved recently and don't have room right now to have everything set up.

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This was the title that made me decide to get the mod to make my Oppo BDP-83 region hackable.

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A couple weeks ago. I ordered, and watched, Midnight Run.

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I still watch them on a regular basis. The players and discs work great and the quality is just as good as Blu-ray.

It's a really cheap way to build a good HD collection with titles on eBay for a buck or two.

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Watched "The Jerk" about two weeks ago... still hilarious

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About two weeks ago, Pan's Labyrinth.

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The Thing back in October iirc. Bought at least 30 cheap HD titles when the sky fell, but have only watched a few.

Traded a couple of them in at the last Best Buy trade-in-save actually.

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It was two years ago and the title was "Blazing Saddles". After we viewed that movie (which blew the DVD-equivalent away) the HD-DVD player was moved to the basement where it just serves as a DVD player at this point. The whole experience was very sad for me. Blu-ray has proven to be a good format, but the HD-DVD VC-1 encodes really *rocked* back then.

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Last year about this time I finally watched my copy of Atonement (that I just had to have as soon as it streeted years earlier). Can honestly say I enjoyed the second viewing on HD DVD even more than the first at the theater. A few months later I picked up a copy on Blu-ray.

I really should use it more than I do, especially since I went to the trouble of picking up a spare after they threw in the towel. As it is now, I can't imagine ever getting desperate enough to watch an HD DVD title to ever put the frustratingly clunky A1 back in the rack- but I just can't bring myself to throw it away.

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Right now I'm watching American Me :)

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Watched Aeon Flux, Mr. Bean's Holiday last month. I still have my XA2 connected but I'm down to watching about one title a month.

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Troy in Dec of 2007 when I bought both an HD-DVD Toshiba player and the Sony PS3 on the same day. Got a bunch of free HD-DVDs and watched Troy and that's it. The unit has been sitting in my rack unused since then.

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I think you win this thread.

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It was a pain because it had to connect to the internet every time and I would have to reset the settings everytime I turned it on. Since I only had 1 internet connection and hdmi input at the time plus all the other stuff the PS3 can do, the PS3 won out. Now that I have multiple inputs and ethernet connections, it just isnt worth hooking back up.

I even tried giving it to my ex to use in my son's room but it wouldnt play burned media (he is deaf and he gets a lot of school stuff on dvds made in his class to show us) which made the unit useless for even that and I ended up buying a cheapie $30 dvd player from Walmart.

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No HD-DVD players HAVE to connect to the internet. If you try to update the firmware on a player via its internet connection, it won't even find the server now. All the Universal discs I tried that have online features have been taken off-line too. The stuff for Warner's "Blood Diamond" disc is still up though, which is funny since a large number of those discs have rotted, I went through about 5 copies before getting one that would play. You can give the disc a rating so I gave it one star just for that. There's also a poll that gives you a choice of a few movies you want to see come out on HD-DVD.

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You're right, I should have said prompted to connect. I still had to reset the date and time every single time I turned the unit on. I couldnt just put in a disc and have it go right to the menu. It was more hassle than it was worth especially when I had another HD option that was much easier and user friendly.

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Yeah, it does make you set the date and time if you leave it unplugged for too long. Mine's always plugged in so I've just set it once and forgotten about it. Don't think any HD-DVDs actually used the clock for anything, but the Blu-Ray of Snow White says "Good Evening" or "Good Afternoon" depending on what time it is.

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Spinning "Mutiny on the Bounty" now; just finished "Land of the Dead".

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What player were you using? My Blood Diamond loaded up fine on my XA2 and BH200.

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I've been stuck watching 'Hot Rod' on HD since I can't find a copy relatively cheap.

watched it 3 weeks ago. Great goof ball film.

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Watched Meet the Parents and Meet The Fockers with my girlfriend this weekend, followed by Little Fockers on Blu-Ray. Meet The Fockers looks awful- looks like edge-enhancement. Easily the worst-looking HD-DVD I've seen so far (excluding the screen-door-vision Warner transfers).