Toshiba HD-A2 HD DVD Player by Toshiba
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Digital camera reviews of Toshiba HD-A2 HD DVD Player
Digital camera Review: Awsome!
Summary: 5 Stars
After extensive research I bought the HD-A2 DVD player took it home and hooked it up to my 42 inch HDLCD TV by LG via HDMI and to say the least I was blown away by the HD quality and graphics. Even my old collection of DVD looks great due to the A2 Player's ability to upconvert, its like im seeing them for the first time the colors were so rich, vibrant and sharp- Now I need to donate my older Panasonic 5 disc player. I have seen the blu ray player in action and the difference in picture quality is so insignificant! Dont forget if you already have a HD TV and is thinking of getting the blu ray you will now have to get a new TV to match the 1080p output on the blu ray player. Its ridiculous to think you have to spend upwards of $1000 on a player plus the cost of a new 1080p TV $1800 - $4600 to achieve an excellent quality picture. If you already have a HD TV and want a true HD movie experience without breaking the bank get yourself a HD-A2 DVD Player!!!! Believe me you wont be disappointed!Digital camera Review: BEST PICTURE EVER!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
All I can say is, holy cow! I purchased this after reading some of the pitfalls and problems of the Sony developed Blu-Ray technology. This player can be summed up in a word, "WOW". Now I've seen HD images on HD-TV's and broadcasts, and while they looked really sharp I didn't jump on the HD train. When Amazon dropped the price to less than $240 I toyed with the idea of upgrading to high def. I finally bought it and was fully ready to send it back if it didn't live up to my expectations. When I connected it to my Infocus DLP projector and saw the opening sequence of 300 in all it's high-def glory, I audibly said "I guess I'm keeping it". I never realized how sharp the picture could be and for that matter how muted regular DVD's are compared to this. Granted this unit does take about 30 seconds to a minute to "boot" but I can't really say a bad thing about it! I highly recommend this to anyone wanting a hi-def image with out the large price tag of Blu-Ray or some of the higher end HD-DVD players.Digital camera Review: BEST UPSCALING DVD PLAYER AVAILABLE
Summary: 5 Stars
I have had my HD-A2 unit since Dec. 06 and I couldn't be more happy with it. The best thing about the unit is that it has made most of my existing DVD's look as though they are really HD DVD's. I'd say about 75% of my DVD's look fabulous when I play them on this unit. The other 25% just look a little clearer than when they are played on a standard DVD player. I highly recommend this unit. If you want to get an HD quality picture from your existing DVD's this would be the unit for you.Digital camera Review: BIG ISSUE WITH HD DVD SOUND!
Summary: 3 Stars
Everybody says it is a great machine. It is a good one but not great! The quality of the picture is super; however no one has ever said anything about the issue of the sound that the manufacturer acknowledge they have with HD DVDs. When I play regular DVD I have no problem getting digital sound in 5.1 through my SONY receiver system; the up conversion is also fantastic. However when I am playing an HD DVD which is the main purpose of this machine the digital sound goes strait to the speakers of the TV, I can't get it on my reveicer system in digital 5.1. The sound does not go there at all unless I change the sound setting on the player from bitstream to PCM, which is a lower quality delivered in stereo not in 5.1. When I called Toshiba, they said this problem will be fixed in the future version HD DVD player. I am wondering why everybody is giving five stars to this machine which is defective by design? Why no one has ever talked about this problem?
10/14/2007 I wanted to be fair by updating this review. I bought an ONKYO model 605 receiver to replace my older 6yr old YAMAHA receiver, now the sound is perfect. Really, it is superb no more complaint about the sound. The only small problem is the lengh of time it takes to start the player when you turn it on.
Digital camera Review: BLUE RAY WON , DONT BUY HD DVD !!!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
IF YOU NEED MORE INFORMATION GO TO GOOGLE AND TYPE BLUE RAY WON, DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS HD DVD, TOSHIBA ANNOUNCE RETIRE ALL THEIR PRODUCTION!!!!!!!