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Owned this HD-A35 for just over two years - suddenly the audio section stopped working.I strongly feel that two years is way too short a life for a player that initially costs this much.To its credit - it was an excellent upconverter for standard DVDs during its short life.
It played high def well. I bought this back when HD-DVD and Blu-ray were still going head to head. I had a feeling Blu-ray would win out, but the price on HD-DVD was half that of Blu-ray at the time.For the time I had this HD-DVD player, it served it's purpose. Once Blu-ray became the clear cut winner, I traded in this player to Best Buy and got a little over $100 of trade in dollars and bought a new Sony Blu-ray player. I'm pleased with my new Blu-ray player.
Of course, everyone knows the format wars are over. The DVDs that I end playing on my system though look pretty good, as they are upconverted to 1080p. I bought two of these Toshiba HD-DVD players knowing that, thus purchased them for a bargain. Since the universality of Blu-Ray discs is not yet 100%,and there are still tons of standard DVDs out there, I find myself occasionally only able to rent from my local movie store titles that are not on Blu-Ray. On a medium-sized screen (42" LCD), the picture quality is not that far off from Blu-Ray quality. Therefore, for its particular use, the HD-DVD player gets five stars for its utility.
I return to the store talked with a different person who had no problem find the missing ac power cord. They still had the player the sales manager remembered me and marked the price down to $70 dollars. So I was told to go back to the store I bought the item from where the sales floor jerk wouldn't looks for in the first place. I lucked out on this player. The HD DVD movie prices are incredible right now. I came back a week later they dropped the prices of the HDDVD players 50% off.
They dropped the price to $150 dollars.
I talked to a sales manager in the department I told him I was looking for A-35 model.
I was very happy with my choice to wait.
I bought a open-box player A-30 model from Best Buy for $70 no remote,no ac adapter power cord.I had to travel to four Best Buys to get these items only to end up back at the first store because I didn't purchased the item at their locations that why they weren't able to help me.
I returned my A-30 model to A-35 Model.
It turned out they a display with the remote and the power cord.
He said to me if I want it I'll sale it to you at the time Toshiba call it quits.
The player sounds great and the movie's look great and sound and picture wise give your old or new DVD's a good boost of life.
I think this still Hi-Def product on the market period.
Got this Toshiba HD-A35 player for my 21st birthday on march 20 2008 (upgrading form Xbox 360 add on). however I am still very happy with this player and the qulity it delivers. Great picture and bitstream audio capability + hd sound decoding (dtshdma core only) abilty makes this player a perfect fit for any hometheater. start up is a little slow next to my panasonic blu-ray player. DVD upscaling is far beter them my dmp bd30 player, but still upscaling is still no match for hd movies with good transfers. And to top it all off I got this HDMI 1.3 audio bitstream 1080p/24 capable player for $239.77 new and free shiping.
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