Re: Quick Question (I hope) about lossless & gear
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That's kinda creepy. He would make a good Reaver.
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Re: Quick Question (I hope) about lossless & gear
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The X2 firmware pushes that I have been following first started out with a 1080P/24 push that was to enable the machine to pull off of the disk the native / non processed 1080P/24 data. It did not do this correctly and a subsequent firmware revision corrected this. Prior to that mess, the X2 had faulty bass management and the first firmware push was to resolve this and some DVI / HMDI issues. The first firmware push did not resolve the bass issues and a subsequent push took care of this. I believe that Homedad bought his after these problems were finally addressed. It is for those two instances that I am aware of that I made the firmware comments above. Toshiba may not always get it right the first time, but they do endeavor to get it right.
The X2 is still Toshiba’s flagship player. It has a better build quality to it, it has the Reon with noise reduction for better SD upconversion, and I also think it’s a better looking machine. If…Toshiba does push out another firmware update to allow it to push the bitstream formats for DTS-M and DD True HD, then this would be the machine to buy. I was not aware that it already decodes DTS-M. I had read differently at AVS (go figure).
I am currently using an A2 and I hate it. It’s a cheap plastic POS compared to the X1 I had. The only reason I bought it was the faster load times it has over the X1. I am waiting to hear what Toshiba does with the X2 before I buy another unit. I also want to know for certain what the start up and load times are for both the X2 and A35.
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Re: Quick Question (I hope) about lossless & gear
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Mike, just trying to avoid confusion. When you say "X2," are you referring to the XA2? I can't seem to find an "X2" model.
Jack
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Re: Quick Question (I hope) about lossless & gear
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Sorry Jack, yes I meant the XA2. I know I should take more time with model numbers and just responding in general, but I just can't seam to slow down. I supose I should get back on the ridlin....
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Re: Quick Question (I hope) about lossless & gear
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Sorry Jack, yes I meant the XA2. I know I should take more time with model numbers and just responding in general, but I just can't seam to slow down. I supose I should get back on the ridlin.... No problem, Mike. I just wanted to be sure I was on the right page. Thanks for the clarification.
Jack
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Re: Quick Question (I hope) about lossless & gear
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I take it back, Toshiba still hasn’t fixed the 1080P/24 issue, or the bass management either. http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=926384
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Re: Quick Question (I hope) about lossless & gear
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Mike, does the 1080p/24 update improve picture quality. I've read Toshiba's explanation but I'm still not technically proficient enough to understand the nuts and bolts behind the update. Is this mainly for users that have 1080p resolution or does this have any impact on 720p or 1080i resolutions. On the AVS forum it also sounded like they were talking about lip sync issues which I've never had a problem with.
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Re: Quick Question (I hope) about lossless & gear
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Get what???
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