Toshiba HD-A1 audio and video performance at Secrets of Home Theater

May 25, 2006

You
can take a look over at the Secrets of Home theater site at a hands on type
review given by Kris Deering. He has had a Toshiba HD-DVD player for quite a
while now. They already gave us a benchmark rundown a couple weeks back, but now, he goes into
more detail of exactly what it's like to interact with this drive. What does he
think of the first generation HD-DVD player? Not much.

Overall, I have very mixed feelings on
the HD-A1. There is no doubt that the player delivers staggering HD
images, but there is also no denying that this player has some serious
bugs to work out. I can't help but feel that Toshiba rushed to release
this player to the market, and the player comes off more as a test
platform rather than a final consumer product. The PC architecture lends
to this theory even more. This may or may not bother the end user but it
certainly makes operability harder and more cumbersome than most DVD
players I've used.

Specifications

• Codecs:
HD DVD, DVD-V, DVD-R, DVD-RW,
DVD-RAM,
CD, CD-R, CD-RW, MP3, WMA, DD, DD-Plus,
Dolby
TrueHD Lossless, DTS, DTS-HD
Lossless

•
Outputs: Composite, S-Video,
Component Video,
HDMI

•
720p/1080i Video Scaler for DVD
(through
HDMI output only)

• Dimensions: 4-1/16" H x
17" W x 15-1/2" D

• Weight: 10
Pounds

• MSRP: $499
USA

Toshiba

www.toshiba.com

If you want to read the three page
review to get a better grasp of how he came to this conclusion, head on over to
the Secrets site. What's nice, is he goes over the device and it's
remote and gives us the feel for what it would be like to use one of these
cutting edge players in your home.

Source: Secrets of Home Theater