May, 2006

Microsoft just launched a consumer-oriented page for HD DVD at http://www.microsoft.com/hddvd . T his joins the existing page for content authors that has been up for a few weeks now. Nothing new here for the folks that are already well-versed in HD...

If you were at CES or NAB this year, you probably saw Microsoft's "concept" demo for Universal Pictures' The Bourne Supremacy HD DVD. One of the main reasons we showed off this demo -- even though we had real discs like Serenity and Phantom of the...

This message was sent with low priority. Toshiba has a cool HD DVD commercial up on their website at http://www.tacp.toshiba.com/hddvd/ Unfortunately it's a Flash page so I can't give you a direct link <sigh> but you can just click on...

The light at the end of the tunnel! We've looked at the Playlist and the Manifest file , and the markup file , and now it's on to the actual script file. Anyone familiar with JScript programming for web pages (or WSH or other hosts) shouldn't have a problem...

Now we've looked at the Playlist and the Manifest file for our sample, let's look at the markup file. Markup.xmu The markup file is not radically different from our previous attempts, but there are a few new things in it. Sorry if the line wrapping...

In the previous part , we looked at the playlist. Now we'll look at the Manifest file, which is really pretty simple. Manifest.xmf You can call your manifest anything you want, as long as it ends in .xmf. HD DVD doesn't care if it is upper- or lower...

Now comes the exciting part -- actually interacting with a movie -- and the doubly-exciting part: you can now follow along with me at home ! But first, let's get to the answer to the last part's question: why couldn't we end the cue on a focused-blue...

Every now and then, one of my friends will send me a link to an on-line photo album that they’ve created at one of the commercial photo-hosting sites. Unfortunately, I’ve never actually seen any of these photo albums because these sites all require you...

The other day I was talking to a friend about HD DVD (and Blu-ray) and why they offered a better experience than standard DVD (and, in particular, why HD was better than BD :-) ). Obviously the sound and picture quality are better, but he specifically...

Just a test blog entry to see how this goes... this is pretty cool, and means I won’t need my VSTO blog posting app any more (although it’s served me well over the years)! Here’s a picture of a sample iHD menu running in iHDSim: Anyway, more...

Now you can start building and testing HD DVD interactive content on your home computer! After some delay, the beta release of the iHD simulator and related tools is available from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=994accae...