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Anyone have experience with ripping HDDVDs? My bluray rw and dvdrw will not recognize that a disk is even in the drive. Bad disk or do I need a special disk reader?

  • Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    As far as I know, HD-DVD was a competitor to BluRay and so it’s not compatible with BluRay drives. You’ll need to find one that works with HD-DVDs specifically.

    • JelloBrains@kbin.social
      2·
      2 years ago

      It required a $200 special external HD-DVD player to do so. Man, I feel bad for people who bought… oh wait, I bought two. :(

      By the end, they were selling for like $50 and giving away discs.

      I now try not to be the first to buy anything “new tech,” I was certain HDR and Dolby Vision were going to do the same as Blu-Ray and HD-DVD and one would kill the other, it could still happen but maybe not.