Toshiba HD-A1 HD DVD 2.0 firmware soon; enables TrueHD 5.1

August 10, 2006

According to a "tipster' over at HDBeat, looks like the fourth firmware update in about as many months for the Toshiba HD-DVD player, is coming soon! The new version 1.9 will be officially released as 2.0. It will enable the player to decode TrueHD 5.1, if your sound system has discrete inputs on the receiver for this and you have a movie title that supports it.

Here are the updates in the past 4 months.

1.2 fixed player glitching and Blacker than Black and Whiter than White via HDMI
1.3 fixed RCA players that had the Toshiba boot up screen
1.4 fixed certain HDMI/DVI problems (Toshiba never specified)

Source: HDBeat