I was already at Costco so I purchased it there for ~$160. I learned that both blu-ray and HD-DVD won't upscale copy protected DVD's using component, must be HDMI or DVI. Although it still looks good. Almost like being in the theatre since it has the grain of film. I'll try my first HDDVD movie tonight!
Sounds cool! I meant to buy the A2 from Wal-Mart when they had that "secret sale", but we didn't think that our local WMs would have it since they don't have the A2 in stock normally. Of course, we were wrong. :P
Still considering getting the A3 from Circuit City, but if our Costco has the A2 for $160, we might get that, since the A3 is $200 at CC.
HD movies look great on an HDTV, but we only have an HDTV that does 720p, so we're missing out a little bit on the full-res stuff.
Update: I tried to watch Firewall with Harrison Ford (just terrible), but in HD it looked great! Strange that you can watch HD content at 1080i through component, but it won't upscale normal DVD's unless the connection is HDMI or DVI...just crazy.
Nice. :) Yeah, I saw Firewall, too. It was a strange movie. :P
I have an HD-DVD drive for my Xbox 360 that I've been using as the HD-DVD player, but I want to have a separate component to play my HD-DVD discs, so I'm looking at the Toshiba players.
Does the player start up fairly quickly? How good is the remote (ergonomics, responsiveness)?
I ended up fast forwarding thru about 75% of it... One nice thing that HD-DVD does that I didn't know about is that you can access the menu and settings while the movie is playing!
I had a 360 too until I purchased the Toshiba. I think it boots up quick, ~30 seconds I'd guess. The remote is pretty generic. I have a Universal Remote MX-850 so I can't help you there. I've heard really good things about the Harmony 880 programmable remote if you're in the market.
Yeah, the menu overlays on HD-DVDs is a pretty cool feature. As for the remote, I guess I'll be getting a Harmony remote anyway, so I don't know why I asked about it. :)
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Did you get it when it was on sale for $100? How do you like it?
2 years ago by jezlyn
I was already at Costco so I purchased it there for ~$160. I learned that both blu-ray and HD-DVD won't upscale copy protected DVD's using component, must be HDMI or DVI. Although it still looks good. Almost like being in the theatre since it has the grain of film. I'll try my first HDDVD movie tonight!
2 years ago by techntools
Sounds cool! I meant to buy the A2 from Wal-Mart when they had that "secret sale", but we didn't think that our local WMs would have it since they don't have the A2 in stock normally. Of course, we were wrong. :P
Still considering getting the A3 from Circuit City, but if our Costco has the A2 for $160, we might get that, since the A3 is $200 at CC.
HD movies look great on an HDTV, but we only have an HDTV that does 720p, so we're missing out a little bit on the full-res stuff.
2 years ago by jezlyn
I don't think the HD-A2 does 1080p anyway. 720p or 1080i will still look fabulous!
2 years ago by techntools
Update: I tried to watch Firewall with Harrison Ford (just terrible), but in HD it looked great! Strange that you can watch HD content at 1080i through component, but it won't upscale normal DVD's unless the connection is HDMI or DVI...just crazy.
2 years ago by techntools
Nice. :) Yeah, I saw Firewall, too. It was a strange movie. :P
I have an HD-DVD drive for my Xbox 360 that I've been using as the HD-DVD player, but I want to have a separate component to play my HD-DVD discs, so I'm looking at the Toshiba players.
Does the player start up fairly quickly? How good is the remote (ergonomics, responsiveness)?
2 years ago by jezlyn
I ended up fast forwarding thru about 75% of it... One nice thing that HD-DVD does that I didn't know about is that you can access the menu and settings while the movie is playing!
I had a 360 too until I purchased the Toshiba. I think it boots up quick, ~30 seconds I'd guess. The remote is pretty generic. I have a Universal Remote MX-850 so I can't help you there. I've heard really good things about the Harmony 880 programmable remote if you're in the market.
2 years ago by techntools
Yeah, the menu overlays on HD-DVDs is a pretty cool feature. As for the remote, I guess I'll be getting a Harmony remote anyway, so I don't know why I asked about it. :)
2 years ago by jezlyn