The BDA has explained why early adopters of the format will not be rewarded for supporting the HD format in its earliest stages because the Blu-ray camp needed to "create momentum" in its battle against rival HD DVD.
Frank Simonis, the European chairman of the Blu-ray Disc Association, was the one who spoke out about why new standards (such as Profile 1.1) took so long to hit the market.
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Originally posted by hughjars: You'll note that the DenonBlu-ray player has been delayed, again.
According to avsforums members and an engadget member from Ultimate Electronics the Denon 3800 player is delayed a couple of months because they are aiming for BD-Live 2.0 spec.
However, the Denon 2500 BluRay transport is available and several avsforum members say they've been promised by their dealers delivery by the end of the week. They can be special ordered from Best Buy's Magnolia Home Theater section.
Originally posted by juankerr: When Panasonic releases the Profile 2.0 BDP-50 I will definitely get one of those and relegate the BDP-30 to the bedroom.
If you have the funds I'd encourage you take a close look at the upcoming Marantz or Denon. I was able to see the Silicon Optics Realta in action from the flagship Denon DVD player and it's a sight to behold. It should go very well with your Pioneer Kuro plasma.
Quote:The sound from any secondary stream PiP is absent when I use bitstream to my Onkyo receiver. I've sent them several e-mails but there's no reply yet.
Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a solution for this just yet. I've been keeping a close eye on the XA2 thread at avsforums and the current 2.7 Firmware has no solution for this. The 2.8 version FW has been released in Japan but a translation from one of the avs members confirms that this update does not address the bitstream issue. I'll keep you posted.
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Originally Posted by Laserfan
Google translation, suggests "forced 24p" among others:
1. 1080p/24Hz 1080p/24Hz Video set in the resolution setting "p/24Hz to 1080" when the frame rate "automatic" or "1080 p/24Hz" to be able to choose. 1080pHD-XA2 (HD-XA2 only handle 1080p).
2. AACS HD DVD-R HD Video Overseas markets provided by the AACS-compliant HD DVD-R (HD Video format) to be able to play.
*HD DVD HD DVD-R * HD DVD recorder created our HD DVD-R will not play.
AACS Advances Access Content System) AACS: next-generation copyright protection technology (Advances Access Content System)
3. Code language has been changed. ID HE YI JY (Indonesian: ID, Hebrew: HE, Yiddish: YI, Javanese: JY)
4. 3. To improve the capacity for regeneration.
It says
1. You can now select 1080p/24 Hz. 1080p/24 is not the only 1080p mode. You can select either 24 or Auto. In other words, you can force it not to do 3:2 pulldown or set it to auto detect whether to do it or not. It seems that you should select 1080p/24 only if you've been having trouble getting it to use that mode with a compatible display.
You can see a picture of what the new menu will look like:
http:// www3. toshiba.co.jp/hdd-dvd/support/info/mdl/pdf/xa2xf2v2.8note.pdf
You'll have to C/P that in there and remove the spaces.
2. As above.
3. As above.
4. Playback has been improved.
Blu-ray better come up with some perk to keep their consumers happy because the initial supporter should at least get some sort of reward maybe a free movie of their choice.
