OFFICIAL Toshiba firmware update thread: 2.0 and or CD is here! - Page 104

Originally Posted by Gate13

Hi everybody,i was not here a long time...
i'm updating my Toshiba HD-A1 player via ethernet connection,how long does it take normaly?because its been 30minutes since it started.
sorry for my english.

Originally Posted by MATA7

mine take about that time to, i don't use the Internet update anymore cause of that, i download the file now burn into CD and update it, is more fast take like 2 or 3 min that way

Originally Posted by bokes

A1 would not play Lady in the Water without 2.0-
so I updated to 2.0
Disc plays, but picture quality looks soft.
(I checked to make sure I was playing HDDVD side- I was.)
I suppose it could be the disc transfer- but anyone else notice a softer image after update?

Originally Posted by pulserate

This is probably a dumb question, but I have to ask:

If my HD-A1 only has 1.0, do I need to download and install 1.3 and 1.4 BEFORE I install 2.0? Or will going straight from 1.0 to 2.0 fix all of what was included in 1.3 and 1.4?

Thanks

Originally Posted by R Harkness

I simply followed all the instructions for the ethernet connection (including unplugging my modem first for a while etc). I got some download error code (which I reported here before). Over and over.
It just never worked. The other option was apparently (via the instructions) to get some proxy id or numbers from my provider. My provider insisted those weren't needed, that the network just didn't work that way. If the download was going to work, it would work exactly as I tried it.

Originally Posted by R Harkness

Next I downloaded the software update from a link on this forum and burned it to DVD. It wouldn't play at all on my HD-DVD player.

Originally Posted by R Harkness

Finally, after weeks, I got hold of the official Toshiba firmware disc at a local AV store. The guy tried to update my A1 and we got the "update failed" error over and over. Sigh. He said he didn't know what was going on, that he'd updated plenty of A1s with that disc and had just used it.

I took the disc home. Have tried numerous times to load the firmware and I get the "update failed" every time.

Going nuts here.

Originally Posted by mfabien

Did you do what is required as stated in page 44 and 45 of the user manual? Did you set DHCP and DNS to ON?

Originally Posted by mfabien

It should be burn to CD, not DVD. And it should be burned as an "Image" file. If after unzipping you see the file with a .nrg extension and if you have Nero software, clicking on the file will open up Nero and it will be ready to burn in the "Image" format.

Originally Posted by mfabien

Once the CD was installed in the tray, you saw the update request question on your TV screen? And you clicked YES then you clicked OK?

Then you got on the player's screen the progress in %?

Originally Posted by mfabien

Once you have updated with version 2.0, you cannot go back to an earlier version. Some people have updated more than once with a 2.0 disc.

Set movie to normal Dolby 5.1 (NOT DOLBY TRUE HD) and the HD-A1 player's audio to "bitstream" in the Setup menu.

Originally Posted by mfabien

Craftech,



In the player's Setup for Audio, the "Bitstream" setting can be selected only for:

SPDIF (digital connection), and
HDMI
In both cases the sound decoding is done by the receiver and not the player. (For HDMI, to have the player do the decoding, the player needs to use PCM)

The 5.1 Multichannel analogs will only transmit in PCM. All audio codecs can be sent via the analogs, DD and DTS plus the new ones DD Plus, DD TrueHD and DTS-HD. Of course CD audio is in PCM by default and the HD-A1 is an extraordinary CD player.

With your present firmware, your DD TrueHD can only be in Stereo format, as you know. On all HD DVD's I believe you can select DD Plus.

As a matter of interest, my first HD-A1 had firmware 1.0 and my present one has 2.0. The PQ is very good in all respects.

As for DD TrueHD:

I was most impressed with the sound quality of the dialogs with "The Perfect Storm". It was as if the actors were in my room and not using an electronic mike of any sort. The surround aspect of DD TrueHD can surprise you, in the same movie one scene below decks while several crew members are talking, one of them comes out from the head and the door closing is so real that I turned my head to see who was there to my left.

For special effects in DD TrueHD, "Batman Begins" gives you a good ride from an audio standpoint.

And "Phantom of The Opera" is offering wonderful music and singing in DD TrueHD. But that movie is one of the first ones in HD DVD and has the lower sound volume... therefore, one needs to increase volume.

Originally Posted by mfabien

Craftech,

When you use SPDIF connection from the HD DVD player to your receiver, you get the very same DD or DTS surround that you get on a standard DVD player. There most be some basic thing you don't quite understand... with digital connection set to "Bitstream" it is the a/v receiver that does the decoding and there is no difference between an HD DVD and a standard DVD for the same movie under these circumstances.