Posted by Joshua Zyber on 11/15/06 12:47

"manitou" <manitou910@rogers.com> wrote in message
news:1163549703.916220.150140@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
>> sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but just received communication
>> from
>> Toshiba today of delay in UK launch of HDE1... Toshiba engineers
>> identified
>> a component issue, and although relatively minor this could have
>> affected
>> playback of certain hd dvd titles. The players will not be available
>> now
>> until late Dec.
>> for full story see dvdlibrary uk website!
>
> Will HD-DVD in Europe be 50hz with PAL-like speedup for movies, or
> will
> the releases be identical to their 60hz US/Canada counterparts?

The content on the discs will be encoded in 1080p/24 format, exactly the
same as the US releases. It's up to the player to determine whether to
convert that to 60hz or 50hz for output.

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