Blu-ray IS better than HD DVD... But I have a question.

[Heckler]

Ok, I have a Blu-Ray player a Samsung BD-1400, I know Blu will win the war so I went straight to Blu. Now I have also just picked up an add on HD-DVD player for my X360 since I got it for $75 I thought I would have a bit more selection for 1080p movies for a little while and I dont ever plan to actually buy any HD-DVD discs just rent them from Blockbuster. I can tell the Blu picture quality is better than the HD but here is my question. Loading time on the HD-DVD player is much quicker, and it goes directly to the movie title menu, no previews, no waiting, just click play and the movie starts. Is this just a result of the X360 player? meaning for some reason skips all the previews so it loads faster? And yes I have done all the updates on my BD player.

[nelsona]

None of the HD DVDs I have are loaded with previews, etc. before the menu. I absolutely despise Disney for loading up their Blu Rays with so much worthless crap before the main menu screen.

[Moefiz]

Originally Posted by nelsona

None of the HD DVDs I have are loaded with previews, etc. before the menu. I absolutely despise Disney for loading up their Blu Rays with so much worthless crap before the main menu screen.

Just skip them...or if they can't be skiped just scan thru them.....some are worthless but some are really good.

[Maxell]

Standalones have longer loading times. The PS3 loads fast. But the HD-A3 loads very slow, even just to eject.

[Xerious]

Originally Posted by Heckler

Ok, I have a Blu-Ray player a Samsung BD-1400, I know Blu will win the war so I went straight to Blu. Now I have also just picked up an add on HD-DVD player for my X360 since I got it for $75 I thought I would have a bit more selection for 1080p movies for a little while and I dont ever plan to actually buy any HD-DVD discs just rent them from Blockbuster. I can tell the Blu picture quality is better than the HD but here is my question. Loading time on the HD-DVD player is much quicker, and it goes directly to the movie title menu, no previews, no waiting, just click play and the movie starts. Is this just a result of the X360 player? meaning for some reason skips all the previews so it loads faster? And yes I have done all the updates on my BD player.

it's not a technical thing... it's merely the choice of the the studio to cram a billion previews before you can get to the menu... warners are perfect... although i'd like a main menu instead of just the popup. how many times do i have to watch a preview for "invincible"???

[Blu-ray Fanatic]

To tell you the truth about how much I love Blu-ray, I'm always more than glad to watch the Blu-ray previews over and over again because the quality is just way more superior than dvd and hd dvd

[nelsona]

Originally Posted by Moefiz

Just skip them...or if they can't be skiped just scan thru them.....some are worthless but some are really good.

Most of the time I try to, it's just a pet peeve of mine no matter what format a movie is on.

[supersix4]

I love previews

[Luis_A51]

The load times are due to the player. Standalones have pretty lengthy load times. THe PS3 is by far the fastest.

The previews are the studios fault. Disney does love to cram a crapload of previews. Sony does as well. But just skip through them.

[blu-backer]

Originally Posted by supersix14

I love previews

I've got a PS3, so load times are not an issue for me. But, I do like to skip through the trailers and previews (either via the skip or fast foward button, whichever is quickest) on some discs.

[haushausman]

I had to skip through I believe 8 previews for Resident Evil Extinction. New record for sure....

[Bourne1]

Ehh, its a minor inconvenience. It gives me time to do a couple things before the movie starts. If I don't have anything to do, then I just skip the previous or fastforward to the menu.

[Apocollypse]

Originally Posted by Heckler

Ok, I have a Blu-Ray player a Samsung BD-1400, I know Blu will win the war so I went straight to Blu. Now I have also just picked up an add on HD-DVD player for my X360 since I got it for $75 I thought I would have a bit more selection for 1080p movies for a little while and I dont ever plan to actually buy any HD-DVD discs just rent them from Blockbuster. I can tell the Blu picture quality is better than the HD but here is my question. Loading time on the HD-DVD player is much quicker, and it goes directly to the movie title menu, no previews, no waiting, just click play and the movie starts. Is this just a result of the X360 player? meaning for some reason skips all the previews so it loads faster? And yes I have done all the updates on my BD player.

I started with xbox and the add-on before going blue. I currently have a ps3 and tosh. HD-A3 ( got it for 80 bucks on craigslist so i can watch the collection of hd-dvd i still had ).

So i can tell you this. the xbox add on and the ps3 load much faster then their stand-alone counter parts. I don't know why and i've never really questioned it, but they load right up like a standard-dvd player.

for the A3 from the moment you power it on it takes about 15 seconds before the TV recognizes it..then load the movie fine ( unless it has web enabled stuff..then it might take a few more minutes of waiting ).

From the bu players i've played with at best buy they seem to have the same wait time and depending on what movies you are watching takes abit longer to load from there ( pirates was the movie i was playing with )..

[Salinger]

Most discs will let you bypass the previews and take you straight to the menu by simply hitting your "Menu" button on your remote.

I can't speak to HD-DVD as I've never had or used a player of any type. There soon won't be any previews on HD-DVD discs at all, as there won't be anything new coming out to preview!

[CptGreedle]

I just hit the menu button. It will load quickly and skip all the ads. On the PS3 it is the "square" button.

[blukrank]

Yeah Disney is bad with the previews.But man Lions Gates is pretty bad too.The 3:10 to Yuma Blu-Ray disc had like 20 minutes of previews at the start and some of the previews are movies that have been out for a while.I sat threw The Rambo preview and the rest I just skipped threw.

[CptGreedle]

This really is nothing new though. DVDs have been doing this for a long time, and sometimes they are programmed to prevent skipping so you HAVE to sit through it!
So far I have not run into that for previews on BDs. But yes, Disney has always been infamous with their home videos for adding tons of previews before it starts. But luckily it is easy to skip them.

[pbnbcr]

Originally Posted by blukrank

Yeah Disney is bad with the previews.But man Lions Gates is pretty bad too.The 3:10 to Yuma Blu-Ray disc had like 20 minutes of previews at the start and some of the previews are movies that have been out for a while.I sat threw The Rambo preview and the rest I just skipped threw.

Yeah, that was so annoying. And then you can't skip through those, either.

Here's my two cents:
PS3 and 360 are computers, plain and simple. They are going to load any disc a heck of a lot faster than any stand alone player.

[Xerious]

best part about the whole thing (thinking on the brightside) is my girl and i are like, 'have that, have that, oh, that's cool, will have to get that one, have that, have that, ewww definately not that, have that that...'

sad...

[Heckler]

Originally Posted by pbnbcr

Yeah, that was so annoying. And then you can't skip through those, either.

Here's my two cents:
PS3 and 360 are computers, plain and simple. They are going to load any disc a heck of a lot faster than any stand alone player.

I think thats the answer right there regarding wait times, there computers!

And I guess CptGreedle is right, it's nothing new to be forced to watch previews, I just thought the lack of them on HD-DVD was an HD-DVD feature.