Toshiba Toshiba HD-A2

Reviewed by: klingon

Duration of ownership: 2 Months

Strengths: Phenominal pic quality and fantastic upscaling of standard definition DVDs!!

Weaknesses: No 5.1 analog output! :(

Overall Evaluation: This is a fantastic piece of equipment, anyone who says just because it does 1080i and not 1080p that it doesnt have the resolution of AX2 is sadly mistaken and needs to do some research including Mr Lincln, please read up a little before reviewing products.All HD-DVD and Blu-ray discs will encode film-sourced material in full 1920x1080 progressive scan resolution at 24 frames per second. The reason why we get interlacing artifacts in a 1080i signal is that the frame was originally captured in interlaced format, with the odd scan lines and even scan lines being recorded at two different moments in time. When you reassemble two fields that are offset in time, you get jaggies, moire patterns, barber pole effects, and line twitter. That is not true of either HD-DVD or Blu-ray film transfers since the image is scanned progressively from a film frame that represents a single moment in time. Therefore we would expect to see none of the common evidence of deinterlacing when watching HD-DVD or Blu-ray movies that are being transmitted via 1080i Now what our reviewer here is refering to as being artifacts while watching Mission imposible could be introduced by the TV which probably doesnt have a good deinterlacing chip, if he would have bothered to use a high quality progressive display device he wouldnt have complaned! Hope he'll be carefull in his future reviews! regards Khan