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HD-DVD Firmware Thread
Please post the latest firmware news for the Toshiba or any other model HD-DVD players here.
Toshiba HD-A1 / HD-XA1 / HD-D1 TOSHIBAHDDVD.COM Ver 2.3 Toshiba HD-A2 / HD-XA2 / HD-A20 / HD-D2 Ver 2.7 Toshiba HD-A3 / HD-A30/ HD-A35/ HD-D3 Ver 2.0 Xbox HD-DVD Add-On Xbox.com | How To - How To Get HD DVD Support for the Xbox 360 HD DVD Player
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Early Adopting So You Don’t Have To. Last edited by chlngr1970 : 03-11-2008 at 08:40 AM. Reason: New 2.0 Firmware for G3 Toshiba players |
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For those with first gen Toshibas & RCAs that don't want to wait for the 2.2 disc, here's a link for a downloadable version of the firmware in .iso form.
http://209.167.114.38/support/ceg/downloads/#
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Join Date: Dec 2001
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Okay, I got my upgrade disc for v1.5 on the XA2, the question is do I need it? I haven't had a problem with the player yet and I'm leary of the consequences of a bad update.
What do you think?
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Well, if you aren't having any troubles, and you're worried about it, I guess wait it out.
![]() I updated mine first thing, but a large part of that was to play with the Ethernet port. I LOVE that you can just plug the player into your network and update the firmware with a push of a button and I HAD to test that. ![]()
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Well after the complete and utter cluster fuck that was 2.1, I hesitantly installed 2.2. So far so good, no more HDMI DVI handshake issues, discs load up as fast as ever. Will try the NIN concert, it was the worst skipper ever.
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Firmware 2.0 seems to have fixed some compatibility issues and bugs with internet features but in addition it also fixed the chroma bug when decoding MPEG2 with the HD-A2.
Word is firmware 2.3 is on the way for the HD-A1/XA1 with similar fixes.
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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Heads up, firmware 2.0 for the HD-A2/A20/XA2 apparently has some minor compatibility issues with the 1st pressing Weinstein movies (Matador, Derailed, Wolf Creek). Some pausing/pixelization. Hopefully will be fixed quickly by Toshiba.
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Here's what they claim it will do:
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WOW! watch several scenes from some movies, look for facial and costume detail, as well as background 3-dimensionality, then do the update and watch the same scenes again
I'm attempting to upgrade from 2.2 to 2.3 now. I got The Host and the video was twitchy with 2.2. Its the first time I've had an intermittent picture like this on a disc. I'm having some difficulty upgrading as my router is not wanting to talk to the player today. I'll sort it out and let you know how it goes. . . . ok, all updated. That was either a huge update or my interweb is exceedingly slow today. The first thing I noticed on the A1 was that interaction between the remote and the menu is now instant. Before, I'd push a button and wait about half a second for the menu icon to react. There also now seems to be a cache for button presses. If I am scrolling through Scene Selection and hit the Right Arrow five times rapidly, the scene selection will now remember that I hit the button five times and go five scenes to the right. No more blinking video on The Host I am happy to say I put in Casablanca and the whites look much brighter and the film even clearer than it was before. I am quite surprised at how the contrast has seemed to be upped in the whites and the blacks seem to be at the same dark level they were at before. The Matrix look great before but an insane amount of fine detail and facial detail has now been brought out. At the beginning of the lobby fight the camera pans up from Neo's boots which now have a very visible mesh texture on the tips. The pits and bumps of the columns that Neo and Trinity hide behind throughout the fight have come out with amazing detail. I also just noticed a single hair protruding from Carrie Ann Moss's face just before she takes out the cops at the beginning. Looks like she could have tweezed a bit more before that day's shoot. :P I am very happy that I thought to check for an update today as I am in high anticipation mode for 300's release tomorrow. I just don't believe that with these updates the A1 keeps getting so much better in the video and sound departments. I was totally pleased with it when the last few updates came out, but this HDMI update is the best yet. I kind of want to downgrade to 1.0, just to see what it was like when I first got the unit.
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2.2 for all second-gen players are available now.
http://www.tacp.com/tacpassets-imag...vd2firmware.asp |
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EDIT: It took less than half that to update the firmware. I guess they just cover their bases on that.
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v2.5 for HD-XA2, HD-A20, HD-A2, HD-A2W, and HD-D2:
http://www.tacp.com/tacpassets-image...d2firmware.asp Improvements documents: XA2/A20 A2/A2W/D2
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New firmware version 2.7 for Toshiba XA2
Sorry if this has been mentioned already. But I just learned that the XA2 has a new update to allow all the new audio codecs (lossy and lossless)to be sent via bitstream over HDMI 1.3.
This is great news for XA2 owners that want to be able to let their receiver/pre-pro do the decoding. Apparently it works great and sounds phenomenal! |
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