Toshiba HD-XA1 HD-DVD Player
Wait, wait and keep waiting!
I received this HD DVD player two days ago and that'ss what I been doing... Waiting! <br />Even though I consider myself as an experimented Hi-End Audio user, it was very hard to get the player work properly, and when do so, it was not amazing, as it was supposed to be. I beleive all these problems came from the HDMI output and the desperate measures the industry is taking for content protection. <br />An example of the problems I encounter with this player was that if you switch the source when the player is on it will display HDMI error 0, It took me 15 minutes, rebooting the unit 6 times and configuring it again and again. When I finally get an image it dispayed a black fat line on the left side! Well you have to be very patience, I recomend that you first prepare yourself a Vodka tonic and get confortable on you couch before setting it up! <br />I have a Marantz  DPL proyector and a Stweart 100\\" Screen  and displaying the 720p image from the HD-DVD was not so diferent from a scaled 720p Marantz DVD player, in some areas I'm getting better picture from the DVD, like in reds in wich on the HD DVD I'm getting black interlaced lines. <br />I hope the Blu-ray is better, one week ago I was shure I will buy both as soon as they were out, today I say WAIT! they are both not ready for the market. Oh, and you will pay 1000 usd for something that in 6 months will be better and cost you 150usd