Toshiba HD-A3 720p/1080i HD DVD Player
- HD DVD Playback
- DVD/CD Playback. Does not support MP3/WMA
- Upconversion for SD
- 720p/1080i resolution
- Includes Warner Bros’ 300 HD DVD and Universal’s The Bourne Identity HD DVD (packaged inside)
With the HD-A3, Toshiba delivers the excellent picture, sound, and interactivity features of HD DVD, and adds a new, sleek, compact chassis. The combination of stellar high-definition picture quality up to 1080i, near high-definition picture quality of upconverted DVDs output through HDMI, leading edge audio (including Dolby TrueHD and Dolby Digital Plus) and web-enabled capability provides a new level of Home Theater Experience. The HD-A3 includes an abundance of audio/video connections plus an Ethernet connection, so that your HD DVD player can be updated to support future applications and services. Web-enabled capability opens the door to new entertainment experiences that can include access to exciting studio-provided enhanced features such as the option to access the latest trailers of upcoming releases, the opportunity to buy movie-related merchandise, download ringtones, vote in on-line polls, play interactive games, listen to music from the movie, or share a favorite clip with … More >>
Toshiba HD-A3 720p/1080i HD DVD Player
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5 comments
Arthur Magana on November 22, 2009 at 6:22 pm
Does it’s job movies look good, but it doesnt output 1080p and my screen is over 60 inches so 1080p would look better, as it is my ps3 outputs better resolution and movies look better and my bluray has better movie selection I got hd dvd for a few movies like batman begins and the matrix but in the end it wasnt worth it if you are looking for a more complete mmovie selection go blu.
topazgirl on November 22, 2009 at 7:32 pm
I bought this HD DVD player to replace a cheap $30 Sanyo DVD player that had a malfunctioning door after a couple of years. I dont have an HD TV….I have an OLD TV….but thought I was being intelligent to buy an HD-DVD player so that in a couple years when I got an HD TV, I would already have the HD player…..
wasn’t counting on the fact that on a comparatively expensive HD-DVD player such as this Toshiba…it doesnt have a way for me to connect it to a TV having only a VHF/UHF/CATV port.
Now, I’m supposed to spend either $20 to return it, or $20 to buy an RF Modulator and a tri-colored connector.
When I called Toshiba, they nicely told me that all I needed to buy was the RF Modulator and the connector….I failed to ask them at the time why my cheap $30 Sanyo DVD player has this capability, but the more expensive Toshiba does not.
Angry. Typical electronics nightmare.
Stephen Edens on November 22, 2009 at 7:51 pm
I recently purchased this product from Amazon. Picture is great! What no one tells you is this machine does not have “resume play” after stop. If you stop it you ALWAYS go back to the beginning.
With the HD-A3 once the Stop button is hit it will stop the DVD completely. If you want to resume playback from the same spot there is a pause button that will do this but unfortunately you can not press the stop button and resume playback from the same spot.Toshiba says”This machine doesn’t have this feature” Don’t buy! One star cause the picture’s nice.
GregoryEEEE on November 22, 2009 at 10:02 pm
This unit didn’t work out of the box with using a Component Output. After an hour on the phone with an uninformed Toshiba representative they gave me nothing but a run around and I never got an RA to return an obviously defective unit. If you don’t have an HDMI connection you could very well be out of luck since they will only let you return defective units if you try with both connections. Last Toshiba product I ever buy.
Martin J. Malinowski on November 23, 2009 at 12:35 am
I just returned my newly purchasedToshiba A3 hddvd player to Amazon after about 5 days. Machine had old firmware, and the process to update is maddening at best. Machine skipped through Casino, which came with it incidentally, and customer service told me to call another number to get a different disk because it wasnt the fault of the player. Then I was told I would have to mail in the old disk for a replacement. What a pain!
Put in “300″ which also came with the machine. The machine would not eject. Called customer service, who told me there was no way to get it out so I would have to send in for service. So it took about 5 days for it to break down.
Thats when I shipped it right back to Amazon for a refund.
Also, machine took an extremely long time to turn on or off, eject disks and load disks. Every time I turned it on I would have to update the clock settings. All in all a pretty horrible experience.