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Well I just returned it to Best Buy and they gave me cash back, even though it was opened. I'll wait and order from amazon.

Won't even load on my brand new PS3- really disappointing.

Isn't this the same company that dumps $1 colorized P.D. DVD's on Target and WalMart every Xmas? Why would you suddenly expect quality from them?

I tried to search for this, but came up with very little. There doesn't seem to be an obvious thread for this, so I apologize if this seems out of place. I am trying to save space by condensing my discs and removing the cases. I need to hold a few hundred discs, preferable in a sturdy...

I got my 6 ft. HDMI cable on Amazon last week for $ .02 plus $5 shipping. It works great- such a deal, wish I had bought more of them because now they are gone.

I worked for a company that bought a lot of BD/HD-DVD players of various makes and models. I was in charge of doing all the firmware updates. Let me just say this- anyone on HTF should have the savvy to be able to do these. Some of you guys are real fear-mongers. Burning discs seems very...

I stopped in to Best Buy yesterday, and did a double-take when I saw a table full of "open box" items: stacks of Toshiba HD-DVD players. Is this happening across the country, in lieu of the WB defection and Paramount/Uni/Dreamworks switch gossip?

Now now, that wasn't bitterness. That was sarcasm. Yes, I realize that most HD video displays sold at WalMart are 720p/1080i, so this is a perfect purchase for that crowd and they'll easily afford a 1080p player in a year or so when they decide to upgrade their plasmas or LCDs. I'm just...

Way to go guys, enjoy that 720p HD-A2 !!

That seems highly doubtful, but ABC could be the plan.

I have a Sony 40" LCD 1080p HD monitor connected to an HP Pavillion Media PC, via an NVidia HDMI PCI-Express card. I've used the Windows Vista and NVidia Display controls to set it to 1080p output (Both the card and TV are 1080p capable). The problem is that the windows desktop is too big at...

I don't see this on the Costco website. Can you provide a link please?

How is your DVD player connected to your TV? Is it via L/R RCA cables?

How do you access the software upgrade for the HD-DVD player?

I read somewhere that Sam's was selling them for $79.00

Simple explanation: HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. The studios need to differentiate the old from the new, and justify the price hikes. It's been long suspected that the picture quality of new standard def DVDs isn't always as good as it used to be, possibly to make HD formats look better in comparison...

This is true in the case of SACD (to avoid digital copying, they force you to use the analog outs). For HD/Blu-Ray, HDMI will pass multichannel out, but those are Dolby/DTS tracks, and PCM, supposedly with advanced encryption.

Can't remember where I read this, but I believe the series 3 HD Tivo box is going to have a major price cut later this year.

When playing 1K tones from a standard-def Dolby Digital calibration disc from my Toshbia XA2 to a Pioneer HDMI 1.2 a/v receiver, I get 0dB (on an external meter), using bitstream mode (from either coax/spdf/hdmi). When I switch the HDMI ouput from bitstream to PCM, the tones come up at -4dB...

After doing the FW upgrade, I popped in a BD-RE (burned disc). For the first time, the player recognized the disc (previously, only a Panasonic BD player would play the disc). Everything worked fine, but the image quality is all F'd up. There's red edge artifacting all over the frame, at lease...

Does it matter what you name the disc? (Edit) No, it doesn't. I burned the iso file, but it didn't extract. Problem solved.

You cannot decode DTS-HD unless the player or receiver had the DTS-HD decoder, regardless of the HDMI version. It will be passed as DTS-Core. I don't believe any HD/BD players have DTS-HD decoders yet- or at least most of them do not. If you know otherwise, I'd love to hear what models can do this.

According to the Toshiba docs, the XA2 can't pass DTS HD, only DTS Core. What a pisser! So now I have to wait for a new player that has a DTS HD decoder, or a new receiver that has the decoder. THis is so annoying.

Not being familiar with your hardware, I can advise that you should hook up all of your devices to the amp/receiver, and then hook your speakers to the receiver. Your receiver should then output surround for each device when it is selected. (TV=ProLogic, DVD=Dolby Digital, Game Cube= ?)

Since the guy who runs TFN is the official SW Fan Club president this year, I'd say he's got some credibility. Sure they may post rumors- but I consider them a bit more trustworthy than most other sites.

I want to be able to plug headphones directly into a DVD/BD/HD-DVD player, without using a gigantic a/v receiver to do so. My players only have L/R RCA outputs. Is there a solution that would be small, and allow for volume control?

What I found was that a receiver with HDMI 1.1 won't pass 1080p video, only 1080i and audio. With my pioneer VSX-81TXV, (HDMI 1.2), it will pass/switch 1080p and the audio streams- but of course the Toshiba HD-DVD player only spits out DTS and PCM, whereas the Blu-Ray players will output the...

Could you be a little less vague? What do you mean by "Dumbing down" ? And how is Blu-Ray audio different than HD-DVD audio?

Patience dude- it's barely been 24 hours.

Bought them together and they were discounted to $47.98 each. Too bad they don't offer this still for the Vol. 1/2 sets. Would've made a good Xmas promo.