Posted by Smarty on 11/24/07 06:04

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




"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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