XA2 - Leave it on?

Jeez, if the WAF is picking a fight over that, its time to get counseling

With my A2, I click "On", go get the movie, click "Eject" put the movie in the player
and that's pretty much the 30 seconds. No one seems to pay much attention to the bootup time of the player.

do a search i think i read that someone left theirs on for 3 days and it broke, maybe it was defective to begin with lol

I think the best and the quickest way to get the answer is to do it yourself. You have the unit, and I'm you have to time to just leave the unit on over the weekend or even through the week. And pleasel, get back to us how things are going with this "leave it on" project.

Not sure about leaving it on all the time.

The cable and sat boxes are designed to be left on, because in fact with most of them turning them "off" really only shuts the video output off. The rest of the system stays running. The hard drives have a sleep and spin down mode if not needed.

I have by mistake left my A2 on for 3 or 4 days when the master OFF command from my remote did not shut off the A2. I would think that as long as the drive it self stops spinning after some time you would be OK. But if you left in a DVD and the drive did not spin down for several days it could cause excessive wear on the drive. The rest of the system would be OK just as long as the drive spins down.

I know that in the Audiophile world, you want to keep your cd player and dac on all of the time. A digital component sounds worse before it's had some time to "warm up". The same may be true for digital in the video domain, I would suggest trying it and seeing. And then let us all know. I think I may even try it myself.

I left my computer on at work for 5+ years - with no ill effects.

I think that the 2nd generation models actually go into standby mode, not an off state. So it probably doesn't matter.

That being said, the manual states when not in use, take the disc out of the drive and turn off the power. ( in the warning section). The twenty seconds to power up seems zippy to me after the HD XA1. By the time I wander over there to put the disc in, its ready.

well mine has been on for two weeks now and it works perfectly .... (i have it on beacuase I use a tube amp for my audio set-up and I had problems with cd transport so I use the HD-DVD to "break-in" some new tubes in my amp )

Yeah, a warm 1 sounds much better than a cold 1.

This is the funniest post I've read in ages.

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Here's a suggestion for your domestic dilemma bpdunsta,
Just tell her it's not good to leave it on.
Maybe during the eons it takes to warm up she could tidy up the room

I can't see where it's going to hurt anything to leave it on all the time, as long as its well ventilated since it will generate more heat than being off, obviously. And of course, it's going to consume more energy on, than off.

Use the switch located at the rear of the player that is marked "Termagant."

I picked up my XA2 from Tweeter and I plugged in the audio with 6 ch analog out. For some reason the center channel is coming out of the rt surround and other sounds are off. I have checked all the connections and they are where they are supposed to be. Does anyone else have this problem?

Ooooo, dancing in the minefield

The bottom line here is that nobody really knows any more about it than you do. I would only GUESS that leaving any modern electrical component on will only cost you electricity but may extend it's service life and actually improve performance. Although if any problems pop up, as with any software based box, a "reboot" would be one of the first things to try.

I leave my HD-A1 on 24/7 ...I really don't think it hurts anything. I've been leaving it on for 10 months now.

The only real question, is the laser on when the player is on.
Lasers do have a finite life span although I don't know what that is.
It may be thousands of hours, it may not matter.
I leave most of my equipment on except for source devices.

I had the same problem. I had plugged the center and sub cables into the wrong jacks at the back of the HD XA2. Its confusing when you look at teh marks on the back of the player, even more so after you already have plugged in the front speaker cables.

You get exactly what you describe if you plug in the center cable and teh subwoofer cable into the rear surround inputs.

Oops. I did it myself, and check it three times before I took all the cables out and looked at the diagram on page 26 of the manual.

If you just seen the markings , you probably did what I did and assume the 5.1 surround marking referred to the bottom row and the center and subwoofer markings refer to the lower row. They do not.

The center and subwoofer are the LOWER row. the "5.1 channel surround" marking refer to the entire set of 6 inputs. If you look on page 26 of the manual you will see what I mean.

I had the same problem myself when I first set it up. I plugged the wrong out puts in. It looks like the center channel and subwoofer outputs are in the middle row, because they have the words underneath them, but they actually are still on the bottom row. (ch2 pg26)

http://akamaipix.crutchfield.com/Man...2/052HDXA2.PDF

The 5.1 audio inputs in each row from top to bottom are

(Front Right) (Front Left)
(Rear Right) (Rear Left)
(Center) (Subwoofer)

Its confused me because the lettering between for center and sub is between the first and second rows.

(O) is the input jack hole

My HD-A1 uses up 40 Watts when left on. That's a decent amount of heat.

I once worked in an office with several Electronic Engineers and during a coffee break conversation one told me that electronics can suffer from what he called "Infant Mortality".

His point was that most consumer electronics only receive minimal testing and that essentially the consumer would be doing that in the first 90 days of ownership.

His advice, be it a stereo, or in this case HD-DVD player, leave it on or run it a lot in those early months and give it an opportunity to fail while still under warranty. If it doesn't fail, then it should give the designed lifespan of service.

So maybe leaving it on is not such a bad idea to see if defects will show up earlier rather than later. Unless of course some part of it would be subjected to excessive wear such as the drive spinning 24/7.

Since then I have followed his advice on this matter. I can't remember any thing failing however, so maybe it isn't necessary.

yes that works Kosty thanks so much for the help, you won't believe how many times I was connecting and reconnecting, thats much better. Any comments on why TRUHD is so quiet compared to DD+?

Thanks again