NEWS - Tuesday, May 15, 2007
HD-DVD Player Update Today
Amir Majidimehr, the corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Consumer Media Technology Group, announced on the AVS Forum that a software update for the Xbox 360 HD DVD Player is scheduled for release today: "It is my pleasure to let you all know that the HD DVD update for Xbox 360 is slated for release on 5/15 (i.e. tomorrow!). So when you wake up in the morning, you should be able to upgrade your software. And me free from telling you when are going to get it . Hope you all download it and provide feedback on what you think!" Here’s what the HD DVD audio update will include on May 15th: * Fix DD being stuck in "Night Mode" which is essentially Dynamic Range Compression leading to the sound sounding very flat * Option to output ALL HD DVD audio as DTS 1.5Mbps (list includes DD+, TrueHD, DTS, and any other audio option offered on HD DVD discs I may have missed) * Option to output ALL HD DVD audio as DD 640Kbps, (which it currently does, but will be fixed from the Night Mode bug), list includes DD+, TrueHD, DTS, and any other audio option offered on HD DVD discs that I may have missed. * Option to output ALL HD DVD audio as WMAPro (768Kbps I think), (list includes DD+, TrueHD, DTS, and any other audio option offered on HD DVD discs I may have missed) for those receivers that support WMA. * Option to enable/disable Night Mode (with the default set to off) * Fix a number of disc incompatibilities (including DVD Essentials) as well as a number of Lip Sync issues.Source: http://www.xbox.com
