Problems with Toshiba's HD DVD player
So, has anyone been having issues with their HD DVD players. There are only two of them out there, the Toshiba HD-A1 and HD-XA1 and they both seem to be having "issues." Most of the problems have involved freezing up during the movie. To solve this, a user would have to hit pause in order for the audio and video to sync back up. It seems that this happens on every movie and sometimes more then once. The bad units seem to have a common thread however; all seem to have been made in March.
Are any of our readers experiencing this?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Trey @ May 12th 2006 1:56PM
Oddly enough, this issue of falling out of sync happens to my DivX DVD Player quite frequently, but only with DivX Movies. The same solution as well.
Nelson @ May 12th 2006 2:54PM
HA HA (points and runs)
Mark @ May 12th 2006 3:00PM
I have an HD-A1 and I do experience these problems, although I've only watched one film. I suppose the firmware will solve the problem.
Looking for some GOOD news though...
Dallas @ May 13th 2006 12:49AM
The place I work at just got our first demo unit in on tuesday and it has been running 13 hours a day since then with no issues.
Wesley J @ May 13th 2006 12:55AM
Yup, I am having audio issues but only on HD audio on the analogue outs on my A1. The center channel drops out. The spdif out is flawless so far.
tfg @ May 13th 2006 9:03AM
Nope, no freezes at all with mine (Feb. build). No "issues" at all except sucky remote and undeniably slow boot time.
HD001 @ May 13th 2006 10:21AM
As said in the first comment, the sync problem could be a MPEG-4 problem. This kind of problems also happend with other different players.
It`s also tricky with the new MPEG-4 HD Receivers for Satellite out for sale. They had also issues with MPEG-4 video and sound, but they fixed it on time.
I don`t see here a big issue, it`s more like when Toshiba will fix this problem.
- HD001
zombieflanders @ May 14th 2006 11:57AM
The released HD DVD titles use Microsoft's VC-1, not MPEG-4, so the problems are either with Microsoft or Toshiba. Unsurprisingly, neither has shown much inclination to fix supposedly 1st-generation (more like pre-release) hardware, even though it's using industry-standard PC parts.