Even the the worst cable DVRs have a scrub bar and maybe Blu-ray will add it in October. On Children of Men the scrub bar shows you a very nice graphical representation of where you are in the movie, as well as the current chapter number, time and the total length of the movie. Each title's user interface can vary, but the one thing that seems to be consistently better about HD DVD movies than Blu-ray movies is the scrub bar. Now that we have our movie loaded and we start to watch, we get to enjoy the interactive menus we have come to love about HD DVD. With a disc loaded in both players, from a fresh startup, the A20 takes about 55 seconds to start playing, an extra 10 seconds longer to start the movie when compared to the BD-P1000. While this is about 10 seconds faster than our BD-P1000, and much faster than the A1, it is still far from the speed we have come to expect from our DVD players. After inserting a HD DVD it takes about 25 seconds of LOADING before the disc is identified and finally starts to play. When the power button is pressed the display reads WELCOME and takes about 40 seconds to recognize that there isn't a disc loaded, then it displays NO DISC, at this point it takes about 6 seconds after pressing the eject button before the tray opens. We're not sure if anyone else uses the eject button to turn on their player, but it would be nice if it ejected regardless of if the player was already on or not. We hit the eject button to load our disc, and although the player turned on, it requires a 40 second pause, than a second push of the button to actually open the tray. We picked up a couple titles from Universal, including Children of Men and The Good Shepherd.
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