Re: Toshiba HD-XA2, HD-A20, HD-A2, and HD-D2 ow
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I remember back 'in the day' when I did PC support for a living and BIOS upgrades were often a necessity. It was always a hold your breath moment when you popped in that disk and rebooted.
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Re: Toshiba HD-XA2, HD-A20, HD-A2, and HD-D2 ow
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Maybe I've just gotten lucky, but I have never had a problem with a bios update, and being in IT I've had to do them quite often through the years. I don't even think twice about it if I need one, I'm actually more concerned that a patch will break something than a BIOS update.
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Re: Toshiba HD-XA2, HD-A20, HD-A2, and HD-D2 ow
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I don't want to totally give my age away but I'm talking about bios updates on 5 1/4 inch floppies. If you had perfect luck with them back then, I bow to you and chant "I'm not Worthy".
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Re: Toshiba HD-XA2, HD-A20, HD-A2, and HD-D2 ow
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Lots of BIOS updates on 3.5" floppies, I don't think I've had to do them on 5.25" though.
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Re: Toshiba HD-XA2, HD-A20, HD-A2, and HD-D2 ow
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with a HD-A2 and a 1080p panasonic plasma, 42pz77u. when i play SD dvd's should i tell the player to output 1080i or 720p? i have read places that it is easier to convert from 720p to 1080p then 1080i to 1080p. this is with standard definition dvds.
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go into the setting menu with the a2 (I think you can press the menu button whith no dvd loaded to get there). You can change the video output to 720p from that menu.
As far as the conversion difference from 720p to 1080p vs 1080i to 1080p I have no idea.
-David
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Re: Toshiba HD-XA2, HD-A20, HD-A2, and HD-D2 ow
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i know how to change it, i was wondering which would yield a better picture.
Last edited by acacia987; 12/06/07 05:06 PM.
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Re: Toshiba HD-XA2, HD-A20, HD-A2, and HD-D2 ow
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1080i. 1080i/60 frames is the same resolution as 1080p/30 frames. The TV will not display an image before both frames are in anyway.
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i know how to change it, i was wondering which would yield a better picture. That depends on the native resolution of your TV, most newer TVs have native resoltion that is 720P or 1080P but the some of the older HD TVs had native resolutions that were 1080i. Using the native resolutions eliminates any extra processing and yields a cleaner picture, from what I have been able to discern from many different readings.
Jason M80 v2 VP160 v3 QS8 v2 PB13 Ultra Denon 3808 Samsung 85" Q70
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1080p, (look up a couple posts)
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