Toshiba HD A-2 Problems only. - Page 3

This may come as a surprise to you but many grown men have children.

What is disturbing to me is the A2 is having issues with such a widely owned DVD. Makes me wonder what other DVDs it has trouble with.

Its digital and HDCP compliant.

im not sure if its an issue on my side or just the content. i put in mission impossible 3 and noticed the red's and yellows to be argivaded (not sure if its the film) as if the red's were really dark but bright and people's faces had yellow spots like makeup. also the audio seemed dull to me and quietier. ill have to try another disc. i have it hooked up through hdmi to a yamaha rx-v4600 then output to hdmi -dvi to fp marantz vp4600. first hd-dvd player so idk maybe im not used to it, but ive watched plenty on movies on stars-hd, hbo-hd, uhd, and inhd through my setup. any suggestions. i cant change the color or tint through projector when its using a digital input.

ah ok just was curious. one thing i def noticed was the speed was faster then the oppo i have now. the menu system is pretty freakin cool .

I tried the A2 with my Denon 2807. It also shows a 48Khz PCM signal over HDMI , just like the 3806. Is something wrong with my A2. What does it show on other peoples 2807 or 3806?

Got my first freeze!!
While watching Phil Collins , The first farewell tour SD-DVD.
3 Songs into the concert , froze solid with " mss6" on the A2 display. TV screen shows a window" Cannot play the disc"
I have not yet experienced any issues with HD-DVD playback. The only other issue I've had before today was with " Finding Nemo". I understand HD-DVD is new but I expect a $500 machine to play SD-DVD flawlessly. I guess this one's gonna go back soon

HDMI connection to Pioneer Elite VSX81 TXV. HDMI to HDMI from the receiver to TV.

I do not watch SD DVD anymore. Are they any issues with HD DVD movies? I have watched 4 movies flawlessly so far. I really want to know of issues with HD playback (unless we can create a SD problem thread) as well.

I believe the title of this thread is " Toshiba HD-A2 problems only ". It does not specify whether the problem/s should be restricted to HD-DVD only. I already mentioned that I have had none with HD-DVD.

I know what you said, but when I buy a HD DVD player I am more concerned with HD DVD playback. I was suggesting that we have a separate thread for SD issues as some of us do not care about SD DVD playback or have a dedicated SD DVD player. Makes it much harder to read through the thread, but seems to be so little issues with the player. That is a good thing.

OK! Wish I was enjoying my A2 (Manufactured 2006) which I finally received tonight by FedEx from Value (Thanks) but have been unable to play HD DVD at higher resolution than 480p.

Here's what I have and how it's connected.

Have a Toshiba 57HDX82 with DVI/HDCP connection purchase in 2003. Had my Comcast Motorola DCT6412 III connected to it at first set to output 1080i, but then disconnected the HDMI to DVI cable (no adapter) to connect the A2 with the same cable to take advantage of the up conversion of SD DVD and better picture I know it can give.

When I play an HD DVD on the A2 the display on the TV and the front panel show 480p even though in the "Set up" Picture I'd set it to output 1080i and to Auto.

When I turn the TV off while the movie is playing the display on the front panel of the A2 then change from 480p to 1080i and then after that I see the message MSS 6 on the front panel display. When I turn the TV back on again I then see displayed on the screen this message "Playback will start from the beginning so that the resolution can be changed Press OK button" with MSS 6 still displayed on the front panel of the A2. Then when I press the OK button on the remote the display resolution goes back to 480p again with the movie starting over again from the beginning.

I turned off the TV and the A2, unpluged and replug them both and I am still not able to get the A2 to output 1080i resolution to my HDTV. I even tried changing the HDMI to DVI connection cause I have another one with an adapter I purchase from Monoprice and still not able to get 1081i out thru the HDMI/DVI connection. I am however able to get the player to output 1080i thru Component connected to the Toshiba HD ColorStream Component input. But this is not what I want. I would like to send the picture thru the HDMI to the TV DVI to watch my HD DVD movies and unconverter regular DVD to a higher resolution for a better picture. Not only that. But when I set the TV Aspect ration to "Natural" which is suppose to display the source material in it's native format I get in in 4:3 at 480p while the A2 is set to 16:9.

After waiting for over two months for this day it goes without saying I am not that happy right now. Is there anyone here that had this problem and can offer a solution to my predicament.

Thanks

Much Appreciated.

BTW! It's a very nice looking piece of equipment and the response time, a big concern to me before buying is very acceptable. The remote still could have been better though.

^^ call me tomorrow and we'll take care of this.

-Robert
800-789-5050

Face it HDCP will be the death of all of this. Just watching this entire year the "HD Scene" you can simply summarize that HDCP is a big big huge problem. I'm convinced there isn't a one-size fits all solutions because it seems any CE device working with any other CE device has a fair shot of being incompatible with one another for no reason that can be given to the general public. The standard is hardly a firm standard, it's as if it's a standard that is up to interpretation. In many ways Digital in general has failed us as well.

So I sit over here with an unopened PS3, wife bought it basically on accident and now I wonder if the BD players simply are better in general. Toshiba imo had to have a knock-out homerun with the A2 and well it's back down the same damn path again it seems.

Sorry for the somber notes.

Thanks Mr Zohn! I will tomorrow. Please see my PM..

8ohms.

1. I just got mine today. I had two Netflix discs waiting on it, both with a fair number of abrasions. 1st one: couldn't read, 2nd one: couldn't read. I cleaned one of then pretty good then IT WORKED...for about half of the movie, then froze about every 10 secs until I ejected and went back to my old sony where it played flawlessly! Too bad. I tried Nemo after reading these forums, it froze once which led to an eject, followed by a wipe it on the T-shirt & reinsert technique. Currently playing ok (~5 mins).

2. Ethernet connection "canot find" BS. At least give me some confirmation I've done it right! Has anyone gotten anything other than the "Cannot find" error?

What's the deal with SD's not playing. Who wants to pack it to the bedroom everytime your disc has a few abrasion?

I had to change ethernet to dhcp and it worked right away.

See, Robert will help...

"Finding Nemo" did not play on my A2, even though I played with 2 other discs previously with no problems. Rebooting didn't help, though, FN did play on my Sony BDP-S1 with no problem. I have a November built. It looks like the A2 is having problems playing standard discs, even though it played with no problem on my A1. But, my A1 always had problems playing HD-DVDs...go figure!

Did I say "problem" too many times?

What to here something funny? I'm sitting at home reading all this Nemo stuff and saying to myself. Look at these idiots. A few people most likley with scratched to hell disks, that their 3 year olds insist on putting into their players like my daughter does, cant play Nemo and it's an epidemic!

I've played HD-dvd's and Sd-DVD's no problems with layer changes on any SD and no problems with playback. Well just for the heck of it I went upstairs and got Nemo and holy SH@!, my player did the same thing. I turned the player off and on a few times and it did not work. I played a HD-DVD then tried the disk and it would not work. Finally I just put in another SD disk and then tried it right after and Viola, works now.

Not only did I feel stupid, being an engineer i'm going nuts trying to figure out why only this disk. I wonder if you rip the copy protections off the disk into a back up copy would this solve the problem? Hopefully firmware will fix this and my daughter will be happily watching upconverted Nemo for the 15,682,466,352 time

I have only seen one person report this, and it was refuted by everyone else on the forum at the time. I just got my A2 yesterday and cannot tell any difference (better or worse) between the A2, A1 or 1080i SD DVD player. What I have seen though is that the A2 won't play SD's very well, especially ones with minor abrasions (Netflix). It just seems like the laser is too particular.

First time I tried the ethernet I got the "Cannot Find" message. Tried over and over with changed settings. Same result. Gave up and filled out the form for the disk when an update becomes available. Next day, tried again with same original settings. This time it said my software was up to date. Both times I used the DHCP setting. Maybe the server was not up when I got the "cannot find" message.

Just tried "The Recruit" with Pacino and Farrell. Message came up that it could not play the disk. Tried again, same message. Cleaned it, same message. I am not copying it and will try with the copy when finished.

I agree with you -- the A2 had to advance itself and be beyond the problems that the A1 had. Despite what some people are trying to tell me in other threads, the comments I read is that it has not, and sometimes, it seems to have more problems than the original. This is not good news. I am a HD-DVD supporter. It is what I have and I do not want to go the route of Blu-Ray. However, we have to admit that some of the things that HD-DVD supporters were accusing of Blu Ray are finally coming to us as well -- from PQ issues in transfers manufacturing problems, etc.

The copy of the Recruit worked. Tried the original again, did not work. Put the original in my PS3 and it is now playing. Sounds like it was the disk, but I don't really know.

Hi,

Apparently this player has a problem with deinterlacing at 720p output resolution.

Toshiba HD-A2 HD DVD - First End User Reports!


I'd appreciate any observations owners of A2s and displays with 720p native resolution have regarding this issue.

Thanks.

Larry

Hello All!

I'm glad I'm not the only one having problems.

My HD-A2 arrived last Saturday (thank you Value Electronics!), and I've been trying to get everything to work since then.

Yesterday I got so frustrated I turned off the power strip because I could not get the A2 to shut down. That killed the setup on the Denon AVR 2307CI, so I am now back to Square One with the audio-visual receiver setup.

Here's the configuration:
Denon AVR 2307CI
Sharp LC37D90U (HDMI from the 2307)
Toshiba HD-A2 (HDMI to the 2307)
Panasonic Stanmdard Definition DVD player (component to the 2307)
Monoprice HDMI cables
Generic component and optical audio cables

I am only playing HD DVD discs on the A2; only playing SD discs on the Panasonic. I never have any problems with the Panasonic (video goes component to the 2307, then HDMI from the 2307 to the TV).

My problem with the A2 is that it seems to have trouble establishing a connection through the 2307 to the TV. The result is that I get sound from the A2 fairly quickly, but I either get no video, or it takes a long time (10 to 15 minutes?) for the video to appear. I do not think it is a disc problem, since the A2 "Welcome to HD" screen does not appear on the TV (which remains blank).

Once everything is working, the PQ is fabulous!

I have tried every combination I can think of in the 2307 configuration screens, but as far as I can tell, the problem is related to the Toshiba player.

Any thoughts or suggestions will be appreciated.

(BTW - I am not at home right now, so I cannot get the build information, but if it''s important, I can post it his evening.

Many Thanks,
Gene Levine

ahhh,... my "3 yr old" is 25 yrs old...so that wasnt my Nemo problem..lol

Hi Gene:

I can offer my TWO CENTS worth of help.

I use to have a 2307CI with a HD-A1.

It worked fine with my CRT Displays and my Sony Ruby.

Just this weekend - while configuring a new setup here - I ran into a HDMI
Handshake problem where there had been NONE before. This is with one of
my SONY HD-DVRs. Guess what I found was the PROBLEM?

A bad HDMI Cable. And STRANGELY enough - I got a GREAT High-Def picture
on SOME Channels and HDMI Handshake errors on other channels. I assumed
it was because some high-def channels and even low-def channels where sending
out some HDCP info. CHANGING the cable made it all WORK.

If you have any spare cables - give that a try.

BOTTOM LINE - your problem does sound like a HDCP handshake issue with
some piece of equipment.

I'd also try to run the HD-A2 directly to the Sharp - just to see if the handshake
works OK in the configuration. ONLY A TEST!