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Jason,
I purchased an HD DVD player today from of all places, Walmart. A friend gave me a heads up that they were stocking them and so they were. No display, nothing. The staff wasn't even aware that they had the player. Set it up and eureka, 1080i over component.
Something I thought I would never see. The unit that I purchased is the Toshiba HD-D1KN. It is solid black. The unit that Best Buy is selling is the HD-A1. The HD-A1 is more stylish. It has round buttons on the front rather than the oblong buttons on the HD-D1KN I purchased. The other difference is that the Best Buy unit has a silver rather than a black bottom. If anyone knows of any real differences between the two units or why Toshiba release both a solid black and a black at silver version at the entry level I would love to know. No extended warranty was offered at the time of purchase. I asked for one and was told to contact the manufacturer.
One other interesting note, the Walmart I purchased this at was so oblivious to it's existence that they didn't bother to remove the packing slip from the carton which happened to be the packing slip for the entire shipment they received from Toshiba. I removed the packing slip and read it and low and behold, Walmart paid Toshiba 1,000.00 for four units. That means 250.00 to Walmart and 488.00 plus tax to us. Hell of a mark up on this stuff.
One last thing, I remember Jason that you said the audio levels were exceedingly low over digital, either optical or coaxial and I have found this to be true also. I took Richard's advice and checked to make sure that the unit was outputting bit-stream as opposed to PCM but the levels are still low. The funny thing is that the promo at the beginning of the discs has a perfect audio level, but once the films start it drops off the charts. How did you resolve this if in fact you did?
Anthony R.
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Jason,
I purchased an HD DVD player today from of all places, Walmart. A friend gave me a heads up that they were stocking them and so they were. No display, nothing. The staff wasn't even aware that they had the player. Set it up and eureka, 1080i over component.
Something I thought I would never see. The unit that I purchased is the Toshiba HD-D1KN. It is solid black. The unit that Best Buy is selling is the HD-A1. The HD-A1 is more stylish. It has round buttons on the front rather than the oblong buttons on the HD-D1KN I purchased. The other difference is that the Best Buy unit has a silver rather than a black bottom. If anyone knows of any real differences between the two units or why Toshiba release both a solid black and a black at silver version at the entry level I would love to know. No extended warranty was offered at the time of purchase. I asked for one and was told to contact the manufacturer.
One other interesting note, the Walmart I purchased this at was so oblivious to it's existence that they didn't bother to remove the packing slip from the carton which happened to be the packing slip for the entire shipment they received from Toshiba. I removed the packing slip and read it and low and behold, Walmart paid Toshiba 1,000.00 for four units. That means 250.00 to Walmart and 488.00 plus tax to us. Hell of a mark up on this stuff.
One last thing, I remember Jason that you said the audio levels were exceedingly low over digital, either optical or coaxial and I have found this to be true also. I took Richard's advice and checked to make sure that the unit was outputting bit-stream as opposed to PCM but the levels are still low. The funny thing is that the promo at the beginning of the discs has a perfect audio level, but once the films start it drops off the charts. How did you resolve this if in fact you did?
Anthony R.
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