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Toshiba Introduces U.S. First HD DVD Players

Posted by samzenpus on from the more-real-than-real dept.

Roy R writes "Toshiba America Consumer Products unveiled today the market launch details for its line-up of the first High Definition DVD players for the U.S. market. The new HD DVD players, models HD-XA1 and HD-A1, will take advantage of the superior capabilities of the HD DVD format. The players will output copy-protected HD content through the HDMI interface in the native format of the HD DVD disc content of either 720p or 1080i."

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  1. Re:as long as it is region free by 42Penguins · · Score: 3, Informative

    Most PC-internal DVD players allow you to change regions 5 times by default.
    External ones, as in for a TV... well, there are ways.
    Try searching for "region free" and your model number.

    Oh, and if a Mr. Valenti or Mr. Cheney call, you don't know me.

  2. Re:as long as it is region free by iainl · · Score: 3, Informative

    By NL do you mean The Netherlands? Just get either a step-down adaptor so you can still use your old DVD player, or if that isn't an option, get a Region Free player from somewhere. They start at less than £20 on Amazon UK, so you should be able to find a reasonable one easily enough.

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  3. Re:as long as it is region free by lysergic.acid · · Score: 3, Informative

    There are a lot of generic DVD players that will play DVDs of any region, or have firmware upgrades for any region. The Philips DVP642 is cheap, players PAL, NTSC, and I think region free DVDs as well. It also players XviD and DivX movies as well as a few other popular video formats. I bought my friend one for $70, and it was well worth the money.

  4. just wait... by pillbug22 · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...for one that plays both formats

    http://www.aviransplace.com/index.php/archives/200 6/01/05/broadcom-unveils-chip-that-plays-blu-ray-h d-dvd/

    (apologies if this is already linked)

  5. Most first/second gen HDTVs can't play these by Richthofen80 · · Score: 3, Informative

    If their player only outputs HDMI and not component video, then a great deal of first and second gen HDTVs won't be able to use this. I have a first-gen Panasonic Plasma TV that has component only (although they sold an add-on card to do DVI). So I can't use this.

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