Just got my HD DVD player!!!
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Oh Crap!! Must resist temptation! This is a delimea. Wait until friday from VE or get right now from Best Buy. No tax and free movies from VE. I think I can, I think I can wait. 
I was going for Blu-Ray when I purchased a PS3 later year year, but the thought of an XBox 360 and HD-A1 are sounding better each day.
Did they have any movies?Ilya said:Just picked up an HD-A1 this morning from a local Best Buy store. Unpacking it right now!
I'll post pictures and comments later today. Stay tuned...
Looks great. Better than I though it would. Feels really solid and heavy...
Unfortunately our Best Buy store wouldn't sell any HD DVD discs until Tuesday, but even if they did, I don't think we would be allowed to post any review of them until then...
Unfortunately our Best Buy store wouldn't sell any HD DVD discs until Tuesday, but even if they did, I don't think we would be allowed to post any review of them until then...
The unit itself.teamerickson said:
Hard to judge the picture quality without any HD discs.
I am watching The Fifth Element (Superbit Edition) right now. Looks great, but it's not HD...
Congrats... would drive the 150 miles to El Paso and pick one up myself, but... My TV's are all component in only and I'm not going to buy new TV's just yet
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Also bought one this morning, it is sitting in the backseat of my truck till I close up at 6 t-nite, also Best Buy would not sell any software, but I will be back there Tuesday morning to get some.
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nuts4scuba said:
Nope, the 5.1 jacks are for the new sound formats like DD-Plus, DD-True HD, DTS-HD, etc, etc.
There are no pre-pro's or receivers that supports the new formats, but it will still output regular DD, DTS via optical or coaxial.
No, it won't play SACD or DVD-Audio.nuts4scuba said:
However, the 5.1 analog outputs are very important: the player has built-in decoders for Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby True HD and dts-HD. There are not too many A/V receivers out there that can handle these new audio formats.
(Bruce beat me with his reply
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Have any Dvd DL's to try? I'm getting the bug but have a lot of HD stuff downrezzed and archived to DL's ...
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I was out running errands and stopped by the local BB. They had two sitting on a bottom shelf, but had no display. The sales rep said they haven't received Toshiba's "official" display yet...the promo won't kick off until them. Anyway, I was the only one looking at them. They were placed in the middle of the sub $100 DVD players and stuck out like a sore thumb (huge box and huge price comparatively speaking). I also noticed BB had a boat load of XBox 360s. I was tempted, but I'm still hoping to kill two birds with one stone (PS3). I don't know if I can hold out 'till fall.
We went to BB today and they had 3 on a skid and one hooked to a TV. 5 BB employees were trying to figure out how to play a movie! The A/V manager told me they could get the instructions to play (?) but they still (after 2 hours) couldn't figure out how to get it to play a movie!
I'm still laughing.
I'm still laughing.
How hard is it to connect to display, plug in to wall, turn on, insert disc, close/press play? I mean, it should be exactly the same as a current DVD players. These guys CAN'T be that stupid? That alone would bump me to 100%, from the 95% I am at now, of NEVER buying from a retail chain outlet.
