Xbox 360 Hd Dvd Player Firmware Update
Building the business case for internal sponsorship activation number. Microsoft issued a firmware upgrade for its HD DVD player add-on for the Xbox 360. The new firmware allows users to select from Digital Stereo (2 channel PCM), Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1 or WMA Pro audio output formats through either TOSLINK or HDMI. Xbox 360 HD DVD Update Now Available. [Player version list now moved to separate post] As of 2am this morning, the latest software for the Xbox HD DVD player is now available via Xbox Live (and will be posted on xbox.com in due course). The three teams involved (HD DVD, Xbox and the Codec folks) have all been hard at work for the.
But for now, wanted to let you know that we are finalizing our DTS encoder which once done, should produce the same experience as the Toshiba player which everyone was happy with. For those curious, amirm is Amir Majidimehr, Vice President of the Consumer Media Technology Group at MS. He is a regular poster at AVS Forum and can be counted on as being absolutely reliable, or at least as reliable as Larry Hryb (Major Nelson). For those who need the background info, the Xbox 360 has neither HDMI nor 6-channel analog outputs.
This means that it is incapable of outputting the Dolby TrueHD Lossless and DTS Master Studio Lossless formats as, well, lossless. Right now, the Xbox 360 HD-DVD Player takes all audio streams and recompresses them to DD5.1 at 640kbps for output over optical digital outputs. To put it mildly, this kind of sucks. Tests have already shown that 640kbps DD5.1 sounds essentially identical to 448kbps DD5.1, which is what standard DVDs use. The point of Amir's post is that MS is working on upgrading the audio output of Xbox 360 HD-DVD Player to encode instead to DTS 5.1 at 1.5mbps. This is the standard bitrate for DTS in movie theaters which use DTS. It is also what the Toshiba standalone HD-DVD players HD-A1 and HD-XA1 do over their optical/coaxial digital outputs.
So, the Xbox 360 HD-DVD Player will be able to output the same quality audio as the Toshiba standalone players over optical digital outputs. Crack name disaign. (The Toshiba players can output Dolby TrueHD Lossless and DTS Master Studio Lossless as lossless over their 6-channel analog outputs.) It's nice to see MS continuing to support and improve the Xbox 360. They've added 1080p (and just released an update to improve it), and they're adding realtime DTS 5.1 1.5mbps encoding to the HD-DVD Player. Certainly right now they're running circles around Sony in terms of continuing to support their product with constant improvements. Originally posted by jeff_sterling86: So I'm assuming that with the connection over USB, the update can be made through software, right? The HD-DVD drive is just that, the main Xbox 360 does all the actual playing/decoding/recoding. This is an ace step for MS, vry pleased with the way there working on the 360's firmware.