Toshiba HD-A1 HD-DVD Player
A little slow to boot, but Wow what a picture and sound
I've owned this player for about a week now. I've seen about 5 HD-DVDs. Watching SD DVD is like taking your glasses off (or defocusing your eyes, if you don't wear glasses), very fuzzy and defocused. This players upconversion of SD DVD is excellent by the way. It looks like Toshiba has delivered a better player than Bluray at half the price. I was originally a BluRay fan because of the increased capacity, it's starting to look like that increased capacity is difficult and expensive to manufacture (from what I've read). Toshiba has delivered the goods with HD-DVD and I've placed my bet.  <br />Video Quality=9 out of 10 <br />Sound Quality-10 out of 10 (DD never sounded this good) <br />Player Quality-8 out of 10 (very solid unit for this price, albiet slow) <br />Remote 7 out of 10 (funny button layout but I love the look of it) <br />Studio Support- 5 out of 10 (only have about half or less of the studios now) <br />