Cheap Toshiba HD DVD Player Has Great Sounding Analog Out Movies!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Page 2

If you have broadband you can also go to the Toshiba site and do it http://www.tacp.toshiba.com/dvd/product.asp?model=hd-a1 Look under RESOURCES.

" I need something to process the signal to avoid having two speakers produce the exact same signal. I have found one CSE 6.1 but it's new and I do not want to buy a new one since they hae been discontinued for a few years. "

The CSE 6.1 will give you two rears speakers producing the exact same signal.

Shawn

Bulldogger : The CB3 will do exactly that : copy the exact signal from the side surround to the back surround, or the other way around. the added benefits are individual bass management and volume control.

As i said, it is a cheap solution to use a splitter, but it works.

All that's being proved is that expensive DACs + compressed source doesn't sound as good as cheaper equipment + uncompressed source. This is like discovering that CDs sound better than 128kbps MP3s...

Seve, when you calibrated with the external disc, did you set the analog levels in the Toshiba by going back and forth, or did you set the Tosh to zero across the board and adjust your pre-pro levels for the independent channels?

I have had terrible analog sound versus the digital feed. So if analog, set Tosh to PCM and if digital, set it to output Bitstream, correct?

Pete

That appears to be the course Sony is taking with Blu-ray?

Yes the two rears that the CSE 6.1 prouces will produce the same signal. However the signal will not be the same as the rear left and right that goes in. Basically you get the same rear left and rear right and a SINGLE matrixed rear channel. This channel will be different.

I received my Toshiba HD DVD Players. I have a DSL modem. The instructions in the manual confused me for a minute as it appeared that your modem had to either have a built-in router or you needed a separate one. I already had an RJ45 cable. I just unplugged my PC and plug the yellow RJ45 cable directly into the Toshiba. Then I needed a monitor to see the menu of the Toshiba. I used a small portable tv that I have to do that. You have to go into the Ethernet menu and turn on DHCP and DNS. Then go into the maintance menu and select update firmware.

I know this is the 20k+ forum, but we all still love a good deal, right? The Toshiba HD-DVD player is available for $363 shipped through Continental Airlines Onepass rewards program. The HD-DVD player is $363 + 100 frequent flyer miles. If you don't have the miles already, you can purchase a magazine subscription for $10 and get 200 miles. It takes about 2 weeks for the miles to show up in your account. I ordered mine last week.

By the way, if this type of post is inappropriate, please delete with my apologies. I don't have any stake in the deal, just passing it along.

Thanks BobDole. And I though I was getting a great deal on a used one and it cost more than that!

Don is a great guy. I have four pairs of the 470 and a single 8 meter run of the XLR 470 that I am using on my center. I am going to take a "wait and see" approach for 7.1 HD DVD titles. No luck so far locating a Parasound CSE 6.1 or Smart Devices product. Not really a priority. I need to measure as I will need different lengths of cable to run monoblocks, Mcintosh MC501s, on my other two front channels.

On another note, in order to get the Toshiba to work via HDMI with my Sony SXRD television, I have to make sure the television is turned on first. Otherwise, I get an HDMI error message. These types of issues are supposedly corrected with HDMI 1.3.

Hi

Upon reading this thread , i did try the Anamlog outputs and indeed they are substantialy better than regular Dolby Digital ... I will not stop telling people on this forum how good this player is: The best Picture one can currently get and the best sound of the movies al this for less than $500... Wow.. I bought a second one , just in case the first breaks, Sending it for repair in the USA and waiting for weeks or months is not an idea I would relish...

I got a chance to open up a HD-A1 and I was very surprised to see how well the analog section looked. It wasn't a cheap analog circuit by any means. This has to be partly why it sounds so good. I never got a chance to try the analog section. I was surprised the player was only $500 for the analog circuit looked like something in a $5000 player. I'm not kidding either!

Ron

The DVD-rom player inside is a nec and is recognized by windows XP.

All it needs is an HDCP video card and the software player and i'm sure it could play on a PC.

Only thing is thaht the SW player is mostly impossible to have legally...

steve, did you try a standard dvd using the analogue outs of the tosh and were they inferior compared to the theta? specifically, if you run the toshiba straight to a preamp (no processor) and allow its dacs (analogue outs) do all the processing, how did it sound?

anyone???

Hmm, interesting.
I have some extra Nordost Valhalla power cord and interconnect I can try it with, and I will mod the internals with Nordost Valkyrja speaker cable.

Does the European version have cheaper parts inside? Should I get the US version HD-A1? I have an extra P300 Power Plant left over I can use to convert the voltage with, with the Euro version I would use the new Premier Power Plant instead.


How does the computer output audio through digital out? Does it first convert into PCM through software? Would this make the Toshiba's analog outputs better then?

Anthony, I plan to try a standard DVD as well. I plan to try both the standard DVD version of Serenity and the HD-DVD version. I do not want to just use the dolby digital track on the HD-DVD to make sure the bit rate has not been intentionally reduced. The increased bass response also has me curious. I can not see how increasing resolution would increase the frequency response of the sound track? Am I mistaken, does Dolby Digital throw some of the frequency spectrum away to save space? If not, I can only assume that the frequency response has been intentionaly lowered to increase bass impact. I keep reading comments about deeper bass. After speaking with Curt at Velodyne about the required bits to reproduce bass, I am baffled as to why an increase in resolution would produce deeper bass?

I am doing a few things in my theater so it may take a bit before I get down to listening. Damn thing is such a bargain that it is hard to be too critical.

i think its the price to performance that is "wowing" everyone with it. it would be interesting how this player compares to the new denon 3930 (video and analogue audio performance). if it is on par, then yes, a great bargain!!!!

Steve,
"But for HD DVD, the multi-channel analog outputs are the best. "

From your suggestion above, If I have EMM LABS DAC6e + Switchman-3, do I need to buy any new surround processor soon? I plan to use analog outputs from HD-DVD A1 to Switchman-3.
Thanks

Steve...

I have Lexicon MC-8 (using coax. cable)for my SDI dvd player so I'm going to use Toshiba HD DVD with Switchman-3 (using analog) as per your suggesttion.
Thanks again.