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Originally Posted by Semper Fi Guy
Are there any HD-DVD players that play xvid and are all-region (for SD-DVD)? Because that's a really good reason to own an Oppo.
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No, but the Toshiba HD-A3 & Venturer SHD7000 can play homemade DVD-R authored 1080p HD discs which can be sourced from an xvid stream (just need to transcode it to an HD DVD codec) and HD DVD has no regions so you can play HD DVDs from anywhere (just not DVDs).
So while you are not getting the extended SD functionality of the Oppo, you essentially get similar functionality except in HD - which is better anyway. And of course, you also get all the standard upconverting features of the Oppo with the Venturer/Toshiba.