DL.TV has a clip up showing a preview of the HD Upgrade pack for the
Intervideo WinDVD 8 player. Although the software was slated to be available already, it's still not up on Intervideo's website. The Blu-ray / HD DVD playing add on is priced at $26 and the DL.TV guys hooked up the
cheapest HD DVD drive they could find to test it out. They confirmed you'll need a pretty
powerful PC to play back movies smoothly, and they weren't able to get it working over non-HDCP connections (no word on if they tried VGA) at all. While Sony BWU-100A owners got their
Cyberlink upgrade recently,
other HD drive owners will have to find a player by other means until the HD Upgrade is available.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jim @ Dec 21st 2006 5:11PM
Intervideo WinDVD 8 Platinum works great with home-brew HD-DVD's. Maybe they didn't use the right version?
I use standard 4.7GB and 8.5GB *red laser* media to encode in HD-DVD format, ULEAD DVDMF 8 to create the HVDVD_TS folder and Nero 7 Platinum to burn them. They play perfectly on the PC using WinDVD 8 Platinum and in the new Toshiba HD-A2. My guess is that adding a xbox HD-DVD player to the PC is all that is needed to watch commercial HD-DVD media. Best to use analog connections if you don't have a HDCP video card and a HDCP monitor/TV.
AVS Forum has a great thread on how to create these hybrid HD-DVD's from high def mpeg2 transport streams (.ts .tp).
Simon @ Dec 22nd 2006 11:53AM
Anyone find that the video is super choppy? (it's Flash too!). I've tried the direct link from ExtremeTech and the link above, and both drop frames after about 5 seconds...