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Posted by PTravel on 11/24/07 10:06
"Smarty" <nobody@nobody.com> wrote in message
news:y9P1j.4640$ng.4469@trnddc08...
> David,
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> 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 ($20) HD Power Pack.
>
> For whatever it is worth, I strictly use Verbatim 16X DVD-R blanks, and
> these seem to work perfectly for all the 25 HDV Mbit/sec material I encode
> / burn. My older Toshiba HD-A1 also has never had a problem with them
> either, but the A2 may be different. The key issue with the Toshiba (and
> BluRay) players is the firmware, and it may have been older firmware which
> caused the A2 to stutter / skip, although a lower quality blank DVD-R
> could also be the culprit.
>
> Smarty
When I get back, I'm going to have to ask you to point me to a tutorial on
burning HD DVDs on standard DVD-Rs. I edit in Premiere Pro CS3 and author
in Encore CS3. I know that neither of them can do this. I hate the thought
of buying additional expensive software, just to have a way to watch my HD
material, but I may have no choice.
Incidentally, update on using the HV-20 -- shot some more video here in
Dali. This thing eats batteries! My usual modus operandi is to leave my
camera on and just press "start" when I see something I want to shoot. With
the larger batteries in my VX2000, I could go for 5 or 6 hours like that
(unless it was very, very cold). The HV-20 gets me no more than 2 hours or
so. Not bad, I suppose (and the batteries are much, much smaller), but not
good enough for what I do. Right now, I've only 2 batteries. I think I'll
buy another 3 or 4 (and another charger) when I get back.
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> "David McCall" <mccallmail@verizon.net> wrote in message
> news:TnD1j.6937$ht1.4315@trndny01...
>>
>> "PTravel" <ptravel@travelersvideo.com> wrote in message
>> news:5qnafiF10oeggU1@mid.individual.net...
>>>
>>> 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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