The Toshiba HD-A30 HD DVD Player brings your home theater experience to a whole new level with superb HD DVD imagery and exquisite digital audio sound. Your current DVD library will look and sound better than ever before, because the HD-A30 is a backward-compatible multi-format DVD player, capable of upconverting your DVDs to a 720p/1080i and 1080p high-definition experience. With the HD-A30, enjoy the awesome power of Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby Digital Plus, TrueHD Dolby, DTS and DTS-HD for a wider, more enveloping surround-sound environment with enhanced sound transitions, or simply, recreate the ambiance of a concert hall with exquisite detail.
Are all those free movies worth buying this HD DVD player?
Rating
Written By technologyrep
Date Written Nov 27 2007
Summary
Let me state up front that I'm not going to discuss in detail how good or bad the picture quality of this HD DVD player is because in my experience high definition is high definition, be it from Bluray, HDTV or HD DVD, and it can depend a lot on the...
Strength
Stunning HD picture and sound.
Weakness
Long load times, won't accept wireless internet connections; Bluray will win war.
Bottom Line
Bluray has way more studio support, but if you just can't wait, it's a good machine.
I have been telling my wife for months that I wanted to save up and get an HD-DVD player. She really surprised on Christmas morning by having one under the tree for me! Why HD-DVD? I had asked for the HD-DVD instead of the Blu-Ray primarily due the...
Strength
Great audio and video. Great special features.
Weakness
Runs a little warm. Hard time downloading/creating firmware update.
Bottom Line
I recommend a purchase. It is cheaper than Blu-Ray with the same quality picture, but with better special features standard on all discs.
I purchased the HD-A30 on 12/29 for $249. First thing I discovered is that I needed an HDMI cable, which cost $80. I received a 5 movie rebate, but I had to send in the UPC code to get the movies. Then I found out that most of the major movie houses are...
Strength
It looks nice, it plays ok and it doesn't take up too much space.
Weakness
Slow to respond to commands. Remote control has on/off and open/close buttons backwards.
HD DVD is awsome. What is better and unexpected is this players performance upconverting Standard definition discs. I have watched 5 or 6 Sd titles now and they all look much better than they do on my other two upconvering players. My other two players...
