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JJKizak wrote on 3/3/2007, 1:08 PM
Toshiba just announced a $999.00 new model HD-DVD player that plays 1080P.
JJK
craftech wrote on 3/3/2007, 2:33 PM
Bradley Music,

If you click on the article in my last post that Blink 3 Times didn't want to read it gave an excellent rebuttal to the store employees' "talking points" I excerpt from the article. And as their investigation stated, it wasn't just Best Buy. But as I have said four times in this post already they aren't doing it anymore - fortunately.

Projector Central has some great articles and is THE place to go for information and reviews of projectors (Business, Classroom, and HT) in addition to the wealth of diversified technical and consumer forums on the AVS Science Forum..

John


craftech wrote on 3/3/2007, 2:46 PM
Toshiba just announced a $999.00 new model HD-DVD player that plays 1080P.
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JJ,
Not sure which one you are referring to, but it must do more than output 1080p for that kind of money.

Of the Toshiba second generation players CURRENTLY AVAILABLE, BOTH the HD-A20 and the high end HD-XA2 HD DVD player are designed to output 1920 x 1080p.

John
Laurence wrote on 3/3/2007, 2:59 PM
There is one thing I like better about HD-DVD: that is that you can burn HD-DVD compatible high definition discs onto regular DVD-Rs. I sure wish Bluray would allow that (since the only reason you can't do it is because they've put "protections" in against this).
JJKizak wrote on 3/3/2007, 3:12 PM
craftech:
It plays HD-DVD, DVD, DVD-VR,DVD-R, DVD-R DL, DVD-RW, CD, CD-R, CD-RW, CD (CD-DA) Dolby Digital Plus 5.1, Dolby True HD 5.1, DTS 5.1, DTS HD 5.1.
Digital/Anolog out simultaneously
SD upconversion to 480P, 720P, 1080i, 1080P
297mhz 12 bit video DAC
Ethernet and RS-232 control
Model HD-XA2
JJK
craftech wrote on 3/3/2007, 4:04 PM
HD-XA2.

HD-A20

"To match the resolution of your display, Toshiba's HD DVD players output HD DVD content through the HDMI interface in 720p or 1080i for the HD-A2, and 720p, 1080i or 1080p for the HD-A20 and the HD-XA2. Through the HDMI interface, standard definition DVDs can also be upconverted to match the resolution of HD displays. The HD-A2, HD-A20, and HD-XA2 are all backward compatible, so users can continue to enjoy their libraries of current DVD and CD software.

Both the HD-A20 and the high end HD-XA2 HD DVD player are designed to output 1920 x 1080p, the highest HD signal currently available, via HDMI. As the premium HD DVD player, the HD-XA2 also incorporates support for Deep Color output through HDMI, and a 297MHz / 12 bit Video DAC with high-quality, 4x oversampling for increased bandwidth for true playback of an HD picture to a video source. Additionally, it comes with a picture setting function allowing customers to optimize picture quality with user adjustable settings for color, contrast, brightness, edge enhancement and block noise, among others."

John

malowz wrote on 3/3/2007, 4:09 PM
here in brazil, we will not have any "war". the format with cheaper player will win. the HD formats are arriving this months...
MH_Stevens wrote on 3/3/2007, 5:32 PM
it's not just the media its the format too. If it don't play divX or mpeg4 or wm9 forget it. Remember when this all get settled you will be feeding you home movie system from a computer drive not a DVD player at all.
BradlyMusic wrote on 3/4/2007, 12:14 PM

"If you click on the article in my last post that Blink 3 Times didn't want to read it gave an excellent rebuttal to the store employees' "talking points" I excerpt from the article."

Thanks for that link John, it was very informative.