Recent content by radar1

I purchased my Toshiba HD-XA1 on-line through Vann's at the price of $549.88 w/free ground shipping. It seemed like a good deal. Vann's is an authorized dealer so I knew there wouldn't be any warranty issues. I own a very good multi-format, CD/DVD player , the Denon 2900. However since I got...

Cees, The beginning of "View From Space..." is especially exciting for me. I'm referring to the launch of the shuttle. I work for the company that makes the flight controls for the shuttle. Our controls steer the three main engines as well as the solid rocket boosters, ailerons and rudder. I've...

I've contacted Toshiba about the way my XA-1 "pillar boxes" my 4:3 picture on my 4:3 screen and suposedly they're looking into it. Like you said, if I select 4:3 as my screen type in the set-up menu and my screen is 4:3 and my projector is set to 4:3, the image should fill my screen without any...

Let me just inject my experience with my brand new HD-XA1. I have a 4:3 screen and an Optoma EP-739 projector with a native 4:3 aspect ratio. It shows 16:9 material as letterboxed. I have no problem watching HD widescreen material with black bars above and below. I can even zoom most movies to...

Well this one was easy, a new set of Duracell AAA batteries restored my HD-XA1 Remote backlight function. The Toshiba batteries that came with it lasted only 2 days! I guess when the batteries lose power the backlight stops working even though the remote still works. I still don't know why I...

I've only had my HD-XA1 for two days. Haven't had much time to view movies however I did manage to somehow cause the remote backlight function to quit working. When it did work it would come on for about 2 seconds and go off. Pressing the backlight button helped but not much. Now it won't come...