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Tokens Gone

Wow. The Xbox 360 HD DVD emulator was WAY more popular than we had imagined. Josh processed thousands of requests and hopefully a huge number of developers are now out there experimenting with interactivity. But, now we have run out of our token allotment Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4:35 PM by Amy | 7 Comments
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Xbox 360 HD DVD Emulator Request Update

Any of you who made requests for the Xbox 360 HD DVD emulator last week should have received at least an initial email with further instructions on getting access to the emulator support site on http://connect.microsoft.com/ , signing the end user licensing Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 11, 2008 12:19 PM by Amy | 4 Comments
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Xbox 360 HD DVD Emulator - Now Free

UPDATE 3/18 : The Xbox 360 HD DVD Emulator is no longer available. For more information, please see: http://blogs.msdn.com/amyd/archive/2008/03/18/tokens-gone.aspx The Xbox 360 HD DVD Emulator is now available as a free download on Xbox Live Marketplace Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 04, 2008 5:57 PM by Amy | 26 Comments
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Xbox 360 HD DVD Emulator Now Available

The Xbox 360 HD DVD Emulator is now available! The emulator is downloaded through Xbox LIVE Marketplace on your existing Xbox player. The Xbox 360 HD DVD Emulator can run projects from an optical disc, an external USB drive, or from a network drive, and Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 13, 2007 8:02 AM by Amy | 1 Comments
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Exception Handling

An HD DVD player may throw exceptions during the execution of script, and if not caught will result in a player crash (showing an error code of 0x4094C00C on Toshiba or 0xC667000B on Xbox). While it's always a good idea to check conditions which could Read More...
Posted Friday, December 07, 2007 11:46 AM by Amy | 2 Comments
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Error Codes, Toshiba Edition

If you know what an error code means, it can be immensely helpful in diagnosing the problem with your project. Below are some of the more common error codes found on Toshiba Players and their potential cause. There is a similar post for Xbox HD DVD add-on Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 27, 2007 9:01 AM by Amy | 1 Comments
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Error Codes, Xbox Edition

If you know what an error code means, it can be immensely helpful in diagnosing the problem with your project. Below are some of the more common error codes found on the Xbox HD DVD add on and their potential cause. There is a similar post for Toshiba Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 27, 2007 9:00 AM by Amy | 1 Comments
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Advanced Subtitles

In HD DVD subtitling can be done via a subpicture stream or an Advanced Subtitle. An advanced subtitle is very similar in structure to an advanced application. It has a manifest, markup file, and font and is declared with its resources in the playlist. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 21, 2007 3:28 PM by Amy | 0 Comments
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Attachment(s): AdvancedSubtitles.zip

Virtual Keyboards

The input tag has four options for mode: password, singleline, multiline or display. When an input element with singleline, multiline, or password mode receives focus, the player may launch an onscreen keyboard to allow user input or a software player Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 24, 2007 12:33 AM by Amy | 0 Comments
Attachment(s): Keyboards.zip

HD DVD Script Object Model

Have you ever been working on an HDi project and needed to look up a method name in Annex Z, but you don't have it handy (or access at all)? Well, luckily the Interactivity Jumpstart Kit ships with the HD DVD Script Object Model as a Visio file and a Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 23, 2007 11:23 PM by Amy | 0 Comments
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Dynamic Content

Today's sample was created upon a request from my very nice and hard working office-mate Chris. Last week Chris began learning HDi. He whizzed through all the Jumpstart samples and the projects on my blog, and jumped into creating a project that would Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 18, 2007 9:01 AM by Amy | 0 Comments
Attachment(s): DynamicContent.zip

HD DVD FAQs

General Why is Microsoft involved in HD DVD? Microsoft supports HD DVD because the mandatory player features such as persistent storage, picture-in-picture, and network connectivity lead to greater interactivity and a better, more consistent user experience. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 17, 2007 1:09 PM by Amy | 0 Comments

Saving Resume Information, part II

In a previous post , I stated that when you press the stop button on your player, you have 2 seconds to continue to execute code before the player shuts down. But, that statement needs to be qualified. If you try to delay the application_end (or the deprecated Read More...
Posted Monday, September 24, 2007 3:15 PM by Amy | 0 Comments
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Very Simple Network Example

I have received a couple requests for an example of networking, so I put something very basic together to show some simple functionality. What it does have: Functionality to download a file from a server to persistent storage Calculation of percentage Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2007 4:36 PM by Amy | 1 Comments
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Saving Resume Information

If you've purchased a DVD player in the last few years or used a software player, likely you've experienced a built in player feature that remembers where you last left off in the movie and allows you to resume play from that point. That functionality Read More...
Posted Sunday, August 19, 2007 6:20 PM by Amy | 1 Comments
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Attachment(s): ResumePlay.zip
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