The HD-DVD is region free so to speak. It will work with any console regardless of the region.

HD DVD titles currently is region free, but there are rumours that it will be region locked in the future. The HD-DVD/DVD combo titles have region lock so it will depend on your console, not the HD-DVD player.

At least that is what I gathered from reading most of the stuff on the HD-DVD player.

What are HD-DVD/DVD combos? and how will it affect the future of hd-dvd discs if i am only just using it for movies

This post has been edited by tnsai: Jan 3 2007, 11:21 AM

HD-DVD is a disc with two sides, on one side you get the HD-DVD content, on the other, you get the normal DVD content.

I think only the normal DVD content is region locked.

hmm ok thanks for the explanation.. so what do you think?

should i get a drive? do you think there will be any forseeable problems? hehe

Haha I am waiting for the drive to be carried by Djinn. I will definitely want one

Well, the HD DVD format itself is region free. Neither the player nor the HD DVDs themselves contain any region code information. But remember that HD DVD is derived from the DVD format. Therefore, it contains region coding information for DVDs. In this case, if your HD DVD player is a region 1 player, you can only play region 1 DVD movies. However, in the case of HD DVD playback, you can play any movies from any region, since technically, there're no regions to speak of


Dead on. A HD DVD/DVD combo is a disc with two formats on it; HD DVD on one side, and DVD on the other side. You can play the DVD side on standard DVD players and DVD ROM drives. Of course, playback is dependent on your region setting.

For example, my Xbox 360 is also an NTSC/J Asian set. That means I can only play region 3 DVD titles. In the case of my Superman Returns HD DVD, the DVD side is region 1 encoded. Therefore, I won't be able to play it on the 360. I do have a region free DVD player to play it on, though.

tripleB, you got the HD DVD addon already?

So desu wa

Eekkk...Djinn!!!!! When are you bringing it in?

Man I hope I have a good bonus HD-DVD, PS3, small lil notebook..so many things to get...

but looking around online, there seems to be a talk about "Regionalizing" disks

See this disease that we all have? Its never ending right? Just got a PS3, now my hands are itching for a DS Lite.

Heh, its an expensive disease. And there is no cure.

Well, at least a DS Lite is quite cheap

The Disease that you speak off is known as "IMMINENT BANKRUPTCY" (I would know im diagnosed with it too)

My net speed damn fast since 11.15pm. Gamespot takes only 1 second to load! Xbox.com about 2-3 second. When I say load I mean the whole page fully load finish!!

it still sucks for me, streaming video on youtoooooooooobe still slow

guys,

I have same noob question here bout the 360...

Is there anyway we can lock the certain blade in the dashboard? eg: setting blade? It's really help if microsoft implement this, I've check but seems didn't found how to enable to lock it or maybe it wasn't there at all?

My 3 years old son always try to go into the setting area when he got the pad. then he said.... chainsaw! chainsaw!!

Is it you or your 3 yrs old son chainsawed me the last time we played?

This post has been edited by terencey: Jan 4 2007, 11:34 AM

that's me lah.. when my 3 year old son is playing, he only standing there at one spot and shooting at sky while keep saying chainsaw! chainsaw!!

rezal... u owe me a lot of grenade taggings ya...

err yoou owe me headshot aa? i just playing aroung with the granade.. jgn maraaa aaa..

Anyway nice playing with you.. toningt we fight again!!