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Toshiba announced its second generation of HD DVD players, and increased
shipment volume to meet market demand.
The HD-A2, HD-A20, and HD-XA2 are all backward compatible with DVD and CD, and
upconvert DVDs. The HD-A20 and the high end HD-XA2 are designed to output
1920 x 1080p via HDMI (but not at 24fps for film content), please refer to the
analysis of this subject below.
Current Toshiba Players:
HD-A2 $500, TTM now, HDMI for 720p or 1080i (no 1080p), originally planned for
TTM Oct 06 but in Nov 06 Toshiba announced that shipment was delayed to Dec 06
due to a performance
issue with one of the
components
manufactured by an
external supplier,
Dolby TrueHD 5.1,
Dolby Digital Plus, DTS
HD (core only), HDMI, component, Digital Optical out, Ethernet port.
HD-XA2 $1,000, TTM Dec 06, supports Deep Color output through HDMI 1.3,
and 297MHz / 12 bit Video DAC, 4x over-sampling, picture setting function,
adjustable settings for color, contrast, brightness, edge enhancement and block
noise, lossy and lossless formats decoding from Dolby Labs and DTS® including the
Dolby® Digital Plus and Dolby
TrueHD, DTS HD (core only),
black high gloss finish and slim
chassis design, component,
Ethernet port, Digital Optical
out, 5.1 analog connections.
It also features Reon-VX HQV
video processor from Silicon
Optix, HDMI 1.3 for 720p,
1080i or 1080p, however, be aware that currently this player will output 1080p as
60fps only “- it deinterlaces the 1080p 24fps HD DVD content”, according to Toshiba.
1080p Video Processing in Toshiba Players
A) The signal is
first converted to
30 fps (interlaced
as 60i) by
performing 2:3
pull-down of the 48
half frames (from
the 24 full frames
of the film) and
adding another
(artificial) 12 fields
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