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Posted by Smarty on 11/25/07 14:21
David,
You're right, and my reference was not to the A35 but rather to the A3. I
like the solution you came up with, and know that DVD Studio Pro on the Mac
allows very good playback control for HD DVDs compared to anything else I
have used. Now if they would just add Type II Advanced Menus like Ulead does
for $20............
I must say that this new A3 is really a huge leap forward compared to my
older Toshiba and a real bargain compared to the BluRay equivalents which
are $500 versus the Toshiba $169-$189.
I find it just astonishing that ***NOBODY*** offers a BluRay authoring
program for red laser disks which provides menus and maintains mpeg2 HDV
content. The programs I have tried transcode into mpeg4/AVCHD, and have very
weak menus, poor image quality, and throw away the pristine detail which
makes HDV look so much better on HD DVD. Sony has seen to it that a BluRay
burner and $20 media are required and not optional to get the HDV into the
BluRay player unmodified.
Smarty
"David McCall" <mccallmail@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> "Smarty" <nobody@nobody.com> wrote in message
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>> David,
>>
>> The A3 flawlessly plays any HD DVD DVD-Rs I have burned / tried on it,
>> including the so-called "Advanced Type II" popup menus, motion menus, and
>> other latest tricks now supported in Ulead's Movie Factory 6 with the
>> optional ($20) HD Power Pack.
>>
>> For whatever it is worth, I strictly use Verbatim 16X DVD-R blanks, and
>> these seem to work perfectly for all the 25 HDV Mbit/sec material I
>> encode / burn. My older Toshiba HD-A1 also has never had a problem with
>> them either, but the A2 may be different. The key issue with the Toshiba
>> (and BluRay) players is the firmware, and it may have been older firmware
>> which caused the A2 to stutter / skip, although a lower quality blank
>> DVD-R could also be the culprit.
>>
>> Smarty
>>
> Thank you Smarty, but you may have mis-read my post.
> The A2 worked extremely well for us. We updated our firmware.
> We think the one that had issues in the store was an A35.
>
> The project was background for a presentation. Initially they
> wanted to a one title DVD that they could just pause at the
> end of the each video segment, but that required that the
> presenter keep an eye on the screen. We tried puttinig in
> chapters and just have the machine automatically pause at
> the end of each chapter, but were unable to find a way to
> get that to work on the with HD-DVD on the A2.
>
> We made an HD-DVD that always started and stopped on
> the same image as the image we were using for a menu.
> there were no buttons on the menu, just a background image.
> All the presenter had to do was hit OK when he was ready for
> the next bit of video. The A2 went from the rolling video to the
> menu so smoothly that it was very hard to tell when the
> transition happened. Thne client was very pleased :-)
>
> We authored in FC Studio.
>
> David
>
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>> "David McCall" <mccallmail@verizon.net> wrote in message
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>>> "PTravel" <ptravel@travelersvideo.com> wrote in message
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>>>> Tiger Direct has a Toshiba A3 HD player for $169.99 as an on-line Black
>>>> Friday special. I just picked one up specifically for this purpose,
>>>> i.e. to play standard-def DVDs with HDV-encoded high-def.
>>>>
>>> We used the Toshiba A2 HD players for an HD presentation this Fall
>>> and it worked very well. I don't know the A3 though. There was a
>>> "newer" Toshiba that was not able to keep up with our HD-DVD
>>> burned on a DVD-R (there was a lot of skipping) we think it was
>>> the A35.
>>>
>>> I found this review from C-Net http://tinyurl.com/2uh8vu
>>>
>>> David
>>>
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