Comments on: Toshiba HD-XA2 Review- An HD Guru Exclusive

By: Milos

Milos — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 03:30:00 +0000

I am using Hard disk low level format, and receiving error “Format error occured at offset” on Seagate Momentus 40GB laptop disk.

By: Michael Lord

Michael Lord — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:54:11 +0000

When I play an SD dvd in the XA2 at my calibrated 0db on my Lexicon, I get significantly louder audio than with the HD version of the same movie. Any idea what’s up?

By: Wingman

Wingman — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 22:27:13 +0000

I have the Panasonic TH-50PZ750U and am now looking for a good HD DVD player to match. Your previous posts recommended the Toshiba HD-XA2 for an HD DVD player and the Samsung 1200 for Blue-Ray. Given any recent products, would you recommend another HD DVD player now over the Toshiba XA2 for an HD DVD player?

By: kovi32

kovi32 — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:51:19 +0000

what is the difference between 1080i and 1080p, im a little confuse about this?….i have a toshiba regza 1080i…..

By: Mark Henbest

Mark Henbest — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 21:15:39 +0000

I bought this model based on HD Guru’s comment that it could upconvert over the component cable. This turns out to be wrong. After talking with Toshiba customer support, they explained that upconversion is only possible over an HDMI connection. I am disappointed that this information by HD Guru was misleading.

By: Chris Kovach

Chris Kovach — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 21:49:02 +0000

Hey Gerald Goldberger, you better check out the bit about component video and upconversion. It is the security of the HDMI standard that allows the upconversion. No where is there anything about getting upconversion using nonHDMI cable and standard. Mitsubishi/Toshiba and others have agreed upon this standard to stop HD recording. HDMI security stops this.

By: Gerald Goldberger

Gerald Goldberger — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 11:51:33 +0000

I have an older Mitsubishi WS-55807 display which does not have an HDMI input port. Will the upconvert on the HD-XA2 work with the component cables [DTV(YPrPb/GRBHV)480i/480p/1080i] high resolution input or the S-video cable on the display?

Thanks

Yes up to 1080i via component video. It will produce a terrific picture. This (1080i) is the highest frequency your display accepts.

The HD Guru

By: John Smith

John Smith — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 22:23:04 +0000

I have experienced the same issue of “the player stops and restarts when you switch video inputs”

I worked around this problem by setting the output of the player to 1080i vs. 1080P.

Not the best solution, but it has isolated the problem to 1080P output.

By: FiguredMaple

FiguredMaple — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 13:28:11 +0000

“The Toshiba plays HD DVD, DVD and CD, not Blu-ray. There is a new LG unit that will play both HD formats. I plan a review soon, probably next week.

The HD Guru”

I’m looking forward to your review of the LG dual unit.
I heard that it does a good job with Blu-ray, but a pretty bad job with HDDVD.
That would be very clever and evil of the Blu-ray team to intentionally sabotage the performance of HDDVD and have owners and reviewers of this LG box convinced that Blu-ray was better.

By: rlc

rlc — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:58:51 +0000

The comment "Priced at only $999 retail, or $150 more than Denon’s least expensive standard definition DVD player" is incorrect or there are constraints you did not mention the following Denon standard definition DVD players are MSRP The Denon and Toshibia prices are manufacturer's suggested retail. The HD Guru