HD DVD Player

bballtom

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I am considering trying to pick up a HD DVD player from ebay second hand. I have a load of films (and may buy more at £3 each, cheaper than normal DVD’s) that I currently watch through my Xbox 360. The noise of it drives me mad sometimes so been thinking about replacing it. I think I remember that one of the Toshiba players got a good review and was excellent at up scaling which would also be useful.

Can anyone remember which players were the best ones to get?

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I agree. It's an excellent player.
With one caveat. Once set at 'UP TO 1080p' you can't watch SD (and, I assume, sometimes NTSC) extras without experiencing a very jumpy picture. You have to go back and drop the resolution, and play HD back at 1080p 60hz.
Nothing seems to cure this.
 

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Not too worried about the 1080p problem as my TV is only HD ready. Are all the Toshiba's worth a look? Think LG used to make them too, are they any good? Think I'm going to end up like the people you see selling their laser disk collection on ebay in a few years! ;-D
 

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Didn't think Sony did HD DVD players (I'm talking about the blu ray rival).

A Toshiba HD-E1 is about to end for £40 at the moment, are the E1's any good, there is a lot of them selling on ebay.
 

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I've got both HD DVD player and a Blu Ray player, when you can pay £3 for a film on HD DVD with a picture pretty much the same as blu ray then why not keep buying them! Obviously one day the players will break down and I'll be stuck with a load of films I can't watch but LG currently do a HD DVD / Blu Ray burner for PC's so you may be able to copy them to Blu Ray (might be wrong there but don't know).
 

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bballtom:Think I'm going to end up like the people you see selling their laser disk collection on ebay in a few years! ;-D

Tell me about it - it almost makes me weep to remember how much I spent on laserdiscs over the years!
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I've had the EX1 a while and got the EP-30 about 6 months ago, but only recently got to try HD DVD using the HDMI for sound, until then I didn't know that you could get HD audio through PCM only not bitstream. I have also found that I have to put up the volume quite high to get simular but not as good results as my bluray player, Panny BD-30.
I've also picked up quite a collection of cheap movies for around £4 each.
On the plus side the picture quality is very good and the upscalling is great and probably be a good choice for anyone looking to upscale DVD's for a good price.
From comparing both the bluray and HD DVD players on DVD upscalling I have found that the HD DVD is much darker(deaper blacks)than the bluray,(has anyone seen this as well?),soundwise for DVD's I can't find much of a difference.
Although I would say that bluray is much better, I would get the HD DVD player and enjoy it for what it is while they are still cheap, who knows maybe collectable one day.
 
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Have XE1, EP-35 and E1 (which my daughter uses). My brother has the EP-30. They're all excellent, although XE1 IMO has best PQ followed by EP-35. The E1 will be great for your HD ready set but won't do 1080/24p if you upgrade TV in future. If you can pick them up for £40 it might be worth buying 2 and storing one as a spare if/when your other breaks down.

I bought probably 60% of all HD DVD discs released and never paid more than a tenner for them, in fact bought a lot of them at only £2.99.

Also have Panny BD30 & PS3 and IMO, the XE1 and EP-35 are as good as (or better in the case of the PS3) for picture and sound.
 

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Thanks for that, some intersting points. It's pretty much comfirmed what I was thinking, while there are plenty of films around and players to pick up second hand I think I will stick with it, got a blu ray player for the new stuff anyway.

Long live HD DVD
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I have a xbox hd dvd player and the films are great! Picked up Enter The Dragon for 3 quid haha and the blu ray version is 18 quid with the exact same picture quality! I dont knw why ppl said blu ray is better, they both show the exact same 1080p image..well anyway HD DVD is dead so we can enjoy a few cheap as chips movies! (Transformers cost me 2quid!!!)
 

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