Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners Quick Question (I hope) about lossless & gear

Pickupmykeys: thanks for breaking it right down to a simple statement.

HomeDad: thanks for clearly pointing out that HDMI 1.1 would be required to make my planned for set-up partially future proof. Until you reiterated, I hadn't realized that the 3805 I've looked at may not be a great choice (no HDMI).

mdrew: Have you heard any predictions on when the XA2 may get a firmware update that allowed the various HD audio encoding? The common conception seems to be that the XA2 (with Reon) significantly better upconverts regular DVD's, and given there is nowhere convenient for me to readily rent HD content movies in my neck of Vancouver, that is very important. If the issue was rumoured to be resolved soon, I would probably hold off on buying an A35.

If I had the money, I would buy a receiver with HDMI 1.3 but the only new Denon 3808 that I can afford is off ebay has no warranty (and the third party warranty isn't available to non USA residents). The price of the Onkyo 875 also makes it impractical, plus I hope to one day have an Epic M80 system and I've read too many warnings about Onkyo amps and M80s. (The dream is to have an acoustically transparent projector screen with an M80 hiding behind it as centre channel, with two others as front...though as of yet I have neither a space in my home nor the savings account to achieve that dream).

Thanks to everyone for the help.

The XA2 already has the firmware updates for HD audio encoding, Toshiba has also confirmed that they are working on a firmware upgrade that will allow bit stream audio over HDMI on the XA2.

Any word on if it is glitchy as mdrew noted the fixes often are?

I own the XA2 and I've never had a glitch or problem with it after updating. Imo the player is one of the best out there and with it's Reon processor it far exceeds the performance of any upscaling DVD player I've owned in the past.

I'm waiting on an upgrade disk from Toshiba. Hopefully there will be no technical glitches.

You could always run a cat 5 from your computer and update over the net automatically. Toshiba always sends me the discs but I've usually already done the upgrade.

I figured the disc would be the easiest. I run off of a wireless connection. My housemate has the router in his room. Just didn't want to bother him. I'm in no big hurry, anyway.

I wouldn't bother him either...

Time to install that doorlock.


Oh yeah, and buy a shotgun.

Hehe...

I watched the first 3 episodes of Firefly this weekend. I guess all that talk of Reavers made me think of him.