Some HD Titles already available
As copied from the DVD Town message boards;
http://www.dvdtown.com/messageboard/...4337bf55aa0b5a
It seems like not many people know that Terminator 2 (Extreem Edition) DVD already comes in HD format as part of the boxed set. The first DVD in the set is standard format, and the second DVD is in HD. Of course, you need to play it on your computer and hook it up to your TV with a DVI cable to view it, but the whole movie is on one puny girly little regular DVD. Why do we need a new format? It can already work on a regular DVD. It just needs an upgraded player.
Here is the link with the movie:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...ilm/T2DVD.aspx
By the way, "T2 Extreme" is not the only movie available in WM HD--other Artisan (now owned by Lions Gate) titles, including "Standing in the Shadows of Motown" and "Step Into Liquid", as well as several IMAX titles from Image offer both SD-DVD and WM HD versions of movies.
Yes, the computer has to be a beast
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Originally Posted by Sir Terrence the Terrible
The problem with using a computer to view the HD disc is that it has to be of VERY high quality, with tons of processing power, and the strong ability to ignore the fan and the noise of the hard drive spining. It has got to have the best video and audio card in the world, or its just not worth viewing with a computer.
3ghz processor minimum, and a 128mb video card. In addition you've got to have a DVI output, and a TV that accepts DVI. Still, there's a lot of computers out there that can do just this.The entry into this kind of multimedia computer is less than a grand for the Gateway models.
I've been wondering about this
My new Comcast cable box sports an HD-DVR. This box is essentially just a computer, and those recorded HD movies and football games are being stored into some file format. Can't this just be hacked somehow? What's preventing some industrious computer geeks from hacking that system and being able to burn those HD files on to a disc or copying them to another computer and playing them on any computer?
the computer would need to be beefy, but not much more so than the cable box.