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1. It's not just a DVD player — it's a computer. Really — Pentium and everything.
2. Like any computer — especially one with a new, unproven operating system — it performs well on some functions, but not others.
3. If you can get past the "not others," then you're in for one very serious ride.
By now, you've probably figured out that this groundbreaking device is far from the perfect package. Even so — and regardless of what the rival Blu-ray format may bring to the table later — I'd say that HD DVD is a giant success. If my experience with the Toshba HD-XA1 HD DVD player proves anything, it's that we've crossed a big line in picture and movie sound quality for the home, and there will be no going back.
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What We Think
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| You'll experience spectacular picture and sound — and a few operational quirks — with this groundbreaking player. |
THE MAIN EVENT
There are many ways to extract different video and audio formats from the Toshiba HD-XA1. I wired our sample for the best signals it could deliver and used a display and surround processor that could take advantage of them. This meant feeding a 1080i HDTV signal and uncompressed multichannel PCM audio from the player's digital HDMI output to the HDMI input of a Yamaha RX-V2600 receiver. The receiver readily decoded the PCM and sent it to Revel Concerta speakers. The Yamaha (with its video scaler turned off) passed the video through its HDMI output to our HP 65-inch DLP 1080p rear-projection HDTV. Note that watching HD DVD movies encoded in 1080p (as these titles were) demands setting the HD-XA1's default resolution to its maximum 1080i, regardless of your display type. The player's internal 720p scaler proved substandard, and setting the player for 720p output resulted in greatly diminished picture quality on both the HP and a new 50-inch Samsung 720p plasma. The image could easily have been mistaken for regular DVD, or worse. When the Samsung was fed a 1080i HD DVD signal, HD-quality detail returned, though the picture never fully captured the magic I saw on the well-tuned HP. This player wants — needs — a 1080p display.
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So, what does an HD DVD picture look like? The first key improvement over DVD was an obvious gain in detail and a reduction of digital compression artifacts, most notably mosquito noise — the little halos of sparklies that can hug the edges of objects on regular DVDs viewed on large screens. Together, these advancements contribute to a superclean, more film-like image that makes even the best DVD transfers seem fuzzy by comparison. On the HD DVDs, for example, I could quickly see the difference between the grainy film stock that gives Million Dollar Baby its gritty look and the finer stock used to shoot the gorgeous, flowing landscapes in The Last Samurai. It was as though a window onto the movies had been cleaned, and I was able to see into their texture in a way that's impossible with DVD.
There was also a huge difference in color and contrast. Colors were much more saturated on the HD DVDs; they had the characteristic pop of film, but without seeming cartoonish or overdone. Whites were noticeably whiter and brighter than on DVD, as in the pure and vibrant images of the mighty Saturn V rocket in Apollo 13 and the flight suits of the astronauts in their capsule. And the fireball of the launch went from being almost animated on DVD to looking richer, brighter, and more convincingly "fire-like" in its colors.
Reproduction of greens appeared greatly improved in HD DVD. The mountain valleys in Samurai were exceptionally natural compared to the regular disc — again, just like film — as was the tropical island backdrop from the King Kong trailer on an HD DVD demo disc supplied by Toshiba. The extra resolution in the HD DVD transfer also brought out the incredibly fine hairs in a close-up of Kong's face as he peered at his love interest, Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts).
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Hook Me Up
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| Setting up the Toshiba HD-XA1 HD DVD player for the best picture and sound quality is not for the uninitiated. Even home theater experts will face a learning curve to understand the different ways to extract video and audio from the player and the ramifications of each option and will have to read the manual to find what settings in the player's internal menu will yield the desired results. Read on for some background and useful tips. |
SOUNDS GOOD
The HD DVDs proved to also have superior sound compared with the traditional Dolby Digital track found on most DVD and HD broadcasts. All the new titles I looked at were encoded with Dolby Digital Plus — a enhanced version of Dolby Digital that supports up to 7.1-channel sound and much higher bit rates — which I listened to as uncompressed PCM or as PCM downconverted to a DTS bitstream for the player's optical output. (The format specs give manufacturers the option of downconverting to DTS or Dolby Digital for output on the coax and optical ports, and Toshiba chose DTS.)
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Whether decoded directly to PCM or decoded and then re-encoded to DTS, the Dolby Digital Plus soundtracks offered big dynamics, clear dialogue, and a satisfying fullness and musicality. By comparison, the standard Dolby Digital soundtracks on the DVDs sounded strained, thin, and edgy against the more data-rich sonics of HD DVD. Phantom's musical numbers and orchestral score didn't stand a chance on DVD; the stridency of massed strings was a dead giveaway, though it's hard to know if the difference was attributable to the mix or to the more bit-challenged encoding from which the sound emerged. And there were moments when the HD discs just blew me away. The launch sequence in Apollo 13 rattled the room so hard that the vibration-sensitive backlight in the HD-XA1's remote flickered. And Universal put so much dynamic juice and low-end energy into the hyper-suspenseful soundtrack to Doom that it had me leaping from my chair more than once.
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What's in the Box
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| As soon as you pull it from the carton, you know that the Toshiba HD-XA1 HD DVD player means business. Its 17-inch rack-size width and 20 pounds of heft beckon to a day when men were men and DVD players were both taller and heavier than a slice of white bread. While the boxy design won't win awards, the player's motorized aluminum door and glossy black display panel give it a sleek modern look that should make any early adopter proud. There's a large power button with a backlit collar that glows green or red to denote On or Standby and two small buttons to operate the door and disc drawer behind it. Lowering the door also reveals transport keys and a pair of USB ports earmarked for game controllers to be called into play by future software titles — the first real indication that this is not your grandpappy's DVD player. Read more from this story |
WALK, DON'T RUN
Okay, with the good comes the bad — though not too bad. Just the kind of bad you get with a misbehaving child who drives you crazy but you still love anyway.
I wasn't kidding about the HD-XA1 being a computer, and you'll know that the minute you turn it on. If you're used to watching your PC boot up, your experience with this player will be about the same. Many functions that are hard-wired in a regular DVD player are in firmware here, which gets reloaded whenever the piece goes live. If there's a disc in the drawer, the time from power-on to seeing it onscreen is a brutally long 1 minute, 20 seconds. Disc-load times when the player is already running vary from 50 to 70 seconds. These delays become exceptionally trying after a while, as was the generally sluggish and slow response to other commands. Fortunately, Toshiba says that upcoming firmware revisions (through the player's Ethernet port) will streamline things somewhat. Some other glitches, such as the Resume Play function working only for DVDs but not HD DVDs, turned out to be related to the early disc-mastering practices.
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The Short Form
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| $799 / 17.3 x 14 x 4.5 IN / 19.5 LBS / www.tacp.toshiba.com / 800-631-3811 | |
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| •Stellar picture and sound quality •Great interactive disc menus |
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| •Slow start-up and disc booting •Sluggish response to commands •Kludgy remote control •Poor 720p conversion  |
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Key Features
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| •Plays high-definition HD DVDs •480i, 480p, 720p, or 1080i output •Ethernet port for upgrades and interactivity •5.1-channel internal decoder •outputs HDMI, component video, S-video, composite video, SPDIF digital audio (optical and coax), 5.1-channel analog, 2-channel analog •inputs 2 USB, 1 RS-232C, 1 Ethernet •Price player, $799; discs, $29 to $40 list Full Lab Results — Coming soon! |
BOTTOM LINE
I've got plenty more to say about the Toshiba HD-XA1 HD DVD player — so if you want still more information on this zaftig 20-pound, rack-width beast, check out the links at the bottom of this page. There, you'll find a recitation of all its fancy features, such as the graphically endearing menu system (three different skins!), plus a rundown of all the player's inputs and outputs and the wacky ways you can configure them.
It ended up taking very little time for me to become accustomed to the stellar picture and cleaner, more open sound of HD DVD. Basically, I'm ruined — I'll never again be able to watch a regular DVD with an uncritical eye. Granted, it's too early to take sides in the high-def disc war, and we'll have to see if the first Blu-ray Disc players can do a better job out of the gate. And Toshiba's bold first attempt at HD DVD has the definite potential to drive you a little buggy. But I can assure you that from the moment a movie starts till the roll of the final credits, all will be forgiven. And that's the time that really counts.
Hook Me Up
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Video Connections
The HD-XA1's back panel (see photo) provides a range of video connections. Most important is the critical HDMI digital video/audio output, which is equipped with HDCP copy protection to keep Hollywood's precious pearls from those nasty pirates. (Aye, matey — give up your bits!). There's also an analog component-video output that sends full resolution 1080i or 720p HDTV signals to your set at the discretion of the studios; as with the pending Blu-ray players, Hollywood will decide whether to flip the Image Constraint Token on its titles to down-res playback via component video. I'm happy to report the ICT was not active on any of the six initial titles we received (The Last Samurai, The Phantom of the Opera, and Million Dollar Baby from Warner and Apollo 13, Doom, and Serentity from Universal).
Beyond these two options are the old fallbacks: composite video (the traditional yellow RCA jack) and its slightly more capable brother, S-video. Neither can pass an HDTV signal of any kind, nor even progressive-scan standard-def (480p) from a traditional DVD. I understand that they have to be there, but it's hard to imagine why anyone buying this player would ever use them.
Of the two HD-compatible connections, HDMI is the obvious first choice — both to keep the disc's pristine digital video signal in that form right through to the TV and to avoid potential complications with the Image Constraint Token on future titles. That said, many enthusiasts most likely to be the first customers for HD DVD were also early HDTV adopters, whose sets may lack the HDMI (or HDCP-compliant DVI) digital video connection that would allow them to hook up to the Toshiba's HDMI port. In that case, the only option is to use the component-video output and let the ICT fall where it may from disc to disc.
Setting Resolution
On the other hand, if you've got either an HD DVD or Blu-ray player in your future, there's an even better reasons than the ICT to consider upgrading to a new 1080p HDTV with a digital video input. First, our ongoing HDTV tests suggest that in most cases, images viewed through a set's HDMI digital input are at least marginally cleaner and more detailed than those coming into its analog component video input. That was certainly the case when we tried running both HDMI digital video and analog component video from the Toshiba into the reference rear-projection HDTV used for this review.
But beyond this, any HDTV that lacks a digital video input today is almost surely a 720p model, which has fewer pixels with which to display the image than a 1080p model. Since all the movies being released for both HD DVD and Blu-ray are being encoded on the disc at 1080p, displaying them on a 720p bigscreen HDTV or projector calls for a fairly complicated downconversion of the signal. That means throwing away some picture information inherent on the disc and introducing the potential for serious image degradation if the quality of the processing in either the player or your TV isn't up to par.
In fact, my experience with the HD-XA1 bore this out. Because the standard for the next evolution of HDMI (known as version 1.3) is not finished, this Toshiba can't send the 1080p signal on an HD DVD disc directly to any TV. But the player does a great job interlacing the disc's 1080p to 1080i, which most 720p HDTVs can handle pretty well with their own deinterlacing and scaling circuits — albeit with at least a modest sacrifice in image quality.
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By comparison, most 1080p TVs can deinterlace a 1080i signal from an HD DVD player perfectly (or near-perfectly) back to 1080p. For our tests, we took the Toshiba's 1080i signal and fed that via HDMI to a 65-inch HP MD6580n 1080p DLP set, with stunning results.
On the other hand, we saw a significant loss of picture quality when we set the HD-XA1's default output resolution to 720p. The player's internal conversion circuitry caused an obvious loss of detail that made the picture look very soft and also made the edges of objects and on-screen type noticeably more jagged. This was true whether we viewed the 720p picture on the HP — which has does pretty good upconversion of 720p to 1080p — or on a Samsung HP-S5053 50-inch plasma TV, a 1,366 x 768 panel that has to alter a 720p (1,280 x 720) input only slightly for display.
For this reason, I recommend that anyone buying the HD-XA1 or the HD-A1, its $499 sibling, use the Resolution button on the remote to set the player's default signal format to 1080i — even if the native display format of your HDTV is 720p. Given that most HDTV broadcasts today are in 1080i, TV makers pay close attention these days to the quality of their 1080i to 720p conversion. The odds are good that your HDTV's internal scaling circuits will do a better job at preserving the format's inherent image quality than the Toshiba's. On the other hand, in the event that the HD DVD disc you are watching is based on video content recorded originally at 720p — such as some sports events might be — you want to set the player to put out a 720p signal, which will ensure as little processing as possible before it reaches your HDTV.
Audio Connections
For getting sound from the HD-XA1, besides HDMI there's a 5.1-channel analog output fed by an internal decoder, as well as traditional SPDIF optical and coaxial digital jacks. What you'll use will depend in part on the capabilities of your surround sound receiver or processor. But before getting into each of these options, it's helpful to review how audio starts out on the HD DVD discs and what happens inside the player.
In addition to the traditional Dolby Digital and DTS multichannel sound formats, movie studios have several new options for putting even better sound on HD DVD and Blu-ray titles. Among these are Dolby Digital Plus, an enhanced version of Dolby Digital that supports up to 7.1 channels on HD DVD and Blu-ray while boasting both greater coding efficiency and the option to run at much higher data, or bit, rates with less digital compression of the original signal, which may sometimes yield improved sound quality. Even better are the Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD formats, which used lossless coding to provide bit-accurate reproduction of the original digital audio master soundtrack. These also offer up to 7.1-channel sound.
Although the Toshiba HD-XA1, as the first of its ilk, has some limitations, it usually takes whatever surround sound format is on the disc and decodes it internally, converting it to a standard uncompressed pulse-code modulated (PCM) digital audio signal. This multichannel PCM, which provides the highest sound quality that the soundtrack's audio encoding will allow, is then mixed with other audio as needed — a dubbed dialogue track, director's commentary, button sound effects, whatever. Eventually, the mixed PCM exits the player and makes its way to your surround-sound system.
Though it depends on the quality and capability of your surround processor, in most current systems the way to get the best possible sound from the HD-XA1 is to take the decoded-to-PCM audio right out of the player through its HDMI digital video/audio connector. To do so, however, you need to plug it into an HDMI-equipped A/V receiver or processor that can accept mulitchannel PCM via that connection. Not all do, and even receiver manufacturers aren't always aware today which of their models have this feature. In their defense, no one has ever really had a reason to ask them before now. In our case, we fed the player's HDMI signal to a Yamaha RX-V2600 receiver, which automatically detected the mulitchannel PCM and routed it to the speakers.
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The next best option would be to use the HD-XA1's 5.1-channel analog output and connect that to a 5.1-channel analog input on your receiver or processor. In this instance, the player simply converts each channel's PCM digital data to analog audio for output on the player's RCA jacks. Toshiba provides pretty extensive bass management for this output. From within the player's Audio menu, you can set the front and surround speakers to Large or Small, specify whether you're using a subwoofer, select the subwoofer crossover (80, 100, or 120 Hz), and enter the distance from each speaker to the primary listening position to adjust the delay for the surround and center channels. This is a good way to retain most of the sound quality inherent in the disc, though you'll probably have to manually select the mulitchannel analog input on your receiver whenever you play your HD DVDs.
The last option for extracting surround sound audio from the HD-XA1 is via the traditional coaxial or optical digital audio outputs — otherwise known as the SPDIF outputs. Here's where things get a little odd. To go from its internal PCM mix to SPDIF, which doesn't have enough bandwidth to carry multichannel PCM, a player must actually re-encode the audio to a Dolby Digital or DTS bitstream. But the HD DVD specfications allow the manufacturer to downconvert to either of the two formats or to give the user the option to select one or the other as a default.
For the HD-XA1 (and HD-A1), Toshiba elected to re-encode to DTS only. This means that if you play an HD DVD that has a Dolby Digital Plus soundtrack and listen to it via the player's coax or optical output, your A/V receiver will actually be getting a DTS bitstream from the player, and its front panel will indicate, accurately, that it is playing back DTS.
Once you understand what's happening you'll adjust to it, but it's a little surreal the first time a Dolby soundtrack flashes up on your receiver as DTS. And if you have any insight into the passionate rivalry between these two companies, you'll really appreciate the irony. But this happens only with HD DVDs — pop a regular DVD into the HD-XA1, and it will pass through the standard Dolby Digital or DTS bitstream on the disc, just like any other DVD player.
In any event, it's worth noting that, because the audio signal on the disc starts out at a higher bit rate, the DTS or Dolby Digital bitstream put out by an HD DVD player is said to have the potential to sound better than the equivalent from a standard DVD player — presumably because the encoders in the HD DVD players are themselves operating at higher data rates than those used for DVD. (Dolby says the Dolby Digital output from an HD DVD player will be 640 kilobits/second, for example, as opposed to the 448 or 384 kbps available from standard DVDs.) I do know that, in our system, listening to the Yamaha receiver on Revel Concerta speakers, I much preferred the HD DVD's DTS downmix to the standard Dolby Digital soundtracks on the standard DVD versions of the movies I watched. But I can't say how much of the HD DVDs' fuller, less edgy sound was attributable to the encoding as opposed to differences in the mix.
Also, about those limitations I mentioned above: Because of the HD-XA1's early release, or perhaps Toshiba's decision to opt for DTS re-encoding rather than Dolby Digital, the HD-XA1 will not pass a multichannel Dolby TrueHD signal or decode such a signal through its internal processor for output via its multichannel analog output. It will decode or pass two channels of TrueHD, but no more. The manual says the HD-XA1 will decode or pass multichannel DTS-HD, though only up to 5.1 channels. Unfortunately, I was not able to test this function since none of the initial discs carried such a soundtrack; all used Dolby Digital Plus for multichannel sound.
What's In The Box
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Around back are all the jacks you'd expect to find on any of today's better upconverting DVD players and a few things you probably haven't seen on this type of product. (See "Hook Me Up" for a full description of the player's connection options and some setup tips.) Among the latter is an Ethernet port that can be used with a broadband Internet connection so the player can link to Web-based extras from a disc, such as movie trailers, games, shopping, or other content. It can also allow Toshiba to add features going forward through firmware updates to the HD-XA1 from a dedicated Toshiba Web site (though this can also be accomplished by ordering a disc). I set up this connection on my test sample, but none of the first discs had any live links in their Extras menus, and Toshiba's upgrade site was not yet active.
Another unusual connector is the RS-232C port that enables you to control the HD-XA1 via fancy whole-house remote systems. This jack, along with the motorized front-panel door and a more substantial, backlit remote are the primary differences between this model and the $499 HD-A1 (which we did not test).
Perhaps the HD-XA1's most revealing back-panel feature is its full-height fan vent. Don't get me wrong — the fan was appropriately quiet for a viewing-room — not whisper quiet, but by no means objectionable or even noticeable during play. But its mere existence on a DVD player speaks to the architecture of the HD-XA1 and its "personality" that emerged.
As I said in my main review, this HD DVD player isn't so much a player as a computer. That's not hyperbole — inside the box there's actually a Pentium microprocessor. Which explains the HD-XA1's remarkably slow start-up and the general sluggishness I cited. The instructions for many functions that normally reside in hard-wired logic circuits in a typical DVD player are in software here. Every time you turn the player on, an equivalent of the BIOS program found in any PC tells the microprocessor where to look in the player's flash memory to boot up its operating system, which eventually instructs the player to perform all its other tasks, such as checking the disc drawer for a disc and then loading and playing it.
Toshiba technical experts I consulted with say the player's initial boot-up time — about 30 seconds with no disc in the drawer — can be improved somewhat with future firmware upgrades, though the 50- to 70-second disc load time is more closely related to the disc itself. We hope firmware upgrades will also address some of the HD-XA1's general sluggishisness and quirkiness. Pressing the Stop button for example, results in five annoying seconds of additional playback (with a "PLAYBACK STOPPED" flag on the screen) before things go dark. And calling up the Setup menu yielded a several-second delay and a short flash of the menu onscreen before it finally came up for good.
Remote Control
The handheld remote control supplied with the Toshiba HD-XA1 HD DVD player has a solid, 10-inch metal body and a slick vibration-sensitive backlight that turns on for about 10 seconds when you give it a little jerk or hit any button. Without illumination, though, the legends can be difficult to read — something bloggers have pointed out about the remote on the less expensive A1, which has the same layout and faceplate but no backlight.
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More critically, the remote relies on a poorly executed eight-position navigation rocker to move about the player's setup and disc menus. Toshiba is correcting that problem for future production. Apart from the glitchy rocker, however, I found the remote comfortable to use, with the key buttons in easy reach of my thumb and a thoughtful nub protrusion on the Play button that let me quickly discern it from the Pause and Stop buttons that surround it.
The remote also has four buttons marked A, B, C, and D, earmarked for unspecified use by studios or game makers. For now, Warner, at least, has tapped the B button to engage its bookmark function, which allows you to store any location on a Warner HD DVD permanently in the player's memory for instant recall.
Setup Menus
Toshiba took advantage of the processing power in the HD-XA1 to provide attractive internal graphics for the Setup menu, which is as pretty to look at as it is extensive. You even get a choice of three different "skins" for the menu system (though I greatly preferred the default skin "1" for its legibility). The menus expand out horizontally as you make selections, with submenus opening to the right as you go deeper and deeper.
The accessible and unintimidating main menu offers five selections. Here's a closer look at what you'll find in each when you get inside:
PICTURE: Used to select the default aspect ratio to match your TV and to activate the Enhanced Black Level option, which sets black at 0 IRE rather than the 7.5 IRE used in North American NTSC television. (This setting should always be turned on when the player is connected to a properly adjusted HDTV set.) A Picture Mode button offers Film, Video, and Auto options to activate 2:3 pulldown compensation as needed; Auto is the recommended setting.
AUDIO: You'll spend a bit of time in here getting things set up once you've determined how best to wire the player for sound with your existing equipment (see "Hook Me Up"). Your selections determine what type of digital audio signals will come from the HDMI and SPDIF (optical and coax) audio outputs, and this is where you can set the speaker level, distance, and bass management options for the player's 5.1-channel analog outputs. There's also a Dynamic Range Control button to bring up low-level sounds when the volume is turned down for late-night viewing and a Dialog Enhancement mode to goose the dialog if you're listening on TV speakers or a system without a dedicated center speaker.
LANGUAGE: To select preferred defaults for the Setup menu, disc menus, subtitles, and dialogue track. English, French, and Japanese can be selected directly, but you can type in codes to select from a total of 136 languages for all but the internal Setup menu.
ETHERNET: Here's one you don't see everyday. Since the player can connect to the Internet, it has its own IP address and all the functions you need to access and manage that connection. See "Hook Me Up," for additional details.
GENERAL: Here's where you can change the menu skins, set parental controls or the internal clock, and activate the screen saver. You can also turn on a confirmation bleep that tells you when the player has received your IR commands from the remote. Most interesting is the Maintenance option, which lets you reset the factory defaults or, if you have a live Internet connection, activate the Firmware Update sequence. Engaging the sequence brings you to an onscreen Terms & Conditions agreement that you have to click off on, which will then start the download from Toshiba's Web site (once that service is rolled out).
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Toshiba obviously put a lot of effort into making its HD-XA1 HD DVD player as complete and future-proof as it possibly could. It's worth noting, however, that because of the wait for final specifications for, among other things, the next iteration of HDMI (known as version 1.3), both the HD-XA1 and its sibling the HD-A1 lack two key technical features that will eventually find their way into HD DVD players.
One is the ability to provide video output in the 1080p format that is actually being used to encode all of the first HD DVD titles and that is the highest-resolution HDTV format now available. But it remains to be seen how much, if any, benefit will accrue from taking 1080p straight off the disc and into a 1080p display that can accept this type of signal, of which there are still only a handful. The alternative is to do what I did with our test sample, feeding 1080i from the player into a 1080p display. In this case, the player interlaces the 1080p signal on the disc to the 1080i format used by most broadcasters, then the TV deinterlaces the 1080i signal internally back to 1080p for display on its screen. For film-originated material, converting between 1080i and 1080p (or vice versa) involves fairly simple processing that doesn't degrade the image if done correctly, and I can't argue with the amazing picture quality we got on our well-tuned big 1080p DLP rear projector. Frankly, it's hard to imagine it getting much better.
On the other hand, the enthusiasts most likely to be the earliest customers for the Toshiba HD-XA1 may bemoan its inability to decode internally or pass through via any output the Dolby TrueHD surround soundtracks that will appear on future discs. TrueHD is a new high-resolution lossless audio format that can provide up to 7.1-channel surround sound. Future A/V receivers, or possibly the multichannel surround processors built into future HD DVD or Blu-ray players, will have the ability to decode this signal without downconverting it to another, less pristine format.
The HD-XA1 will decode two-channel stereo from discs encoded in TrueHD — just not surround sound. Of course, future discs will also have alternative surround-sound tracks, in most cases Dolby Digital Plus, that the HD-XA1 will decode and play faithfully through its HDMI or multichannel analog outputs.
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