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Huh. So, HD-DVD was in development before Blu-ray came around. Interesting So wait, does that mean HD-DVD technically was around first before Blu-ray? I honestly thought Blu-ray was created first before HD-DVD was created, but maybe not Seems I'm learning something new
Yeah, the first HD-DVD player came out about half a year before the first Blu-Ray player.They did know about each-other’s existence before this, though, because they tried to arrange a deal to merge the formats like what happened with DVD, but Sony refused.But yeah HD-DVD wasn’t created to be better than Blu-Ray, it was created to be better than DVD, like Blu-Ray.There were some advantages HD-DVD did have over Blu-Ray, though, from what I can gather. It wasn’t as heavily DRM’d as Blu-Ray and it had more interactivity. You could also make double sided discs, one side being HD-DVD and the other being standard DVD.
I finally got my player and discs. It’s proven very difficult to get it films playing on Linux. So I hooked it up to my Xbox 360 and tried to watch Superman Returns. It’s been hit with laser rot, so it stuttered a bit at the start but was otherwise okay. Didn’t get far enough to see if it was watchable throughout, though.
Scots looks like an interesting language to me I think it would be somewhat easy to do if I were to search for a 'perfect' learning tool that teaches the language
Films are difficult to play on Linux?
Well.. So, I do wanna learn Scots, but there's a problem: There is not that much resources available online that teaches you the language ...either that or I'm not looking hard enough
And let's see.. what interesting stuff can I think off Nothing that interesting has happened as of now, though I did watch some Animaniacs yesterday, if that's interesting? And as usual, it was very silly Of course, Yakko and them are always silly so
I finally got my copy of WCW Backstage Assault for N64 that I imported from the US, and it turns out to be one of the few N64 releases that won’t work on PAL systems even if you have an adapter. On a lighter note, I traded in a couple of games to CeX and got $70 in store credit, which I almost immediately used in a few games and accessories I wanted to get.
No, just HD-DVD. I eventually just decided to get my Xbox 360 put and play them through that.So the other WB film I have (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets) doesn’t seem to be rot at all. From what I’ve seen from it, there was no stuttering or freezing at all.
Do you use Discord? I can PM you an invite to my Discord server which is dedicated to the language?
I need to watch more Animaniacs.
Hmmm... So let me guess: That game is region-locked?
That leads me to the question: Can HD-DVDs in general suffer from Lazer rot?
Ooo, and I have something interesting to share! I got to see the Northern Lights today! I never really see this kind of stuff, so this was awesome to me! May not be the greatest, but I was still at least able to see it (Mainly off my phone) which to me is good This is like a "once in a lifetime" thing to happen in Arkansas I'm so glad I got to see Northern Lights! (Image removed from quote.)(Image removed from quote.)(Image removed from quote.)(Image removed from quote.)
I found out there’s an Atari Jaguar game jam taking place until October with a cash prize and publishing deal for the winner!I’m going to take part. I downloaded an SDK that supports 3D graphics for the system and got it installed. Just playing around with it now and have some ideas for games I could do for this jam.
All Nintendo 64 games are region locked. I have an adapter called the N64 Passport that usually allows me to play games from other regions on my console, but it turns out not all games work with this, and Backstage Assault is one of the ones that don’t.
All optical media can suffer from laser rot. HD-DVD is just very susceptible to it due to it being rushed to market. Getting HD-DVDs can be a lottery because of this. They are cheap, though!
Ah nice! Me, my mum and my little brother all went out to see if we could see them as apparently where we live had a “100%” chance at seeing them, but after nearly an hour of driving from dark spot to dark spot, we found nothing…
Ahh, the Atari Jaguar. Wasn't that console considered a failure? I wonder what making games for that console was like.
Huh. So there's a way to bypass region lock, just like how it's possible to do with the Ps2 and all. If you can't get that one game to work on it, then you may would have to end up getting an American N64.
I've looked that game up, and apparently it wasn't very well received
So.. HD-DVDs can very easily get laser rot? Hmm.. Now I wonder what the average life span is for HD-DVDs, if it has one That's interesting. I do have some old cds some of which are very very scratched up, the badly scratched up ones still works, though it usually starts giving up at a certain track. Of course I don't think this is is due to laser rot, it's just cause of how scratched up it is. (One of them is so badly scratched up, I'm surprised it still even works) Wait.. This is probably a very dumb question but: Can Scratches actually affect/damage the laser on the disc?