Posted by David McCall on 11/24/07 15:14

"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

>
> "David McCall" <mccallmail@verizon.net> wrote in message
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>>
>> "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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