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Title: Piece of garbage
Review: This player is a complete piece of garbage. Not ready for prime-time, but it was still rushed to the market. While the picture quality is excellent (when it successfully plays DVDs) as you would expect with the HD-DVD format, it takes up to *2 minutes* to load up a DVD and start playing it. Just performing a power-up boot takes at least a minute. In addition it does not play DVD+R discs. In many cases it would not play any disc you insert into it and required several reboots to play it correctly. I returned mine immediately and instead got a Denon 1080p-upconverting player and am happy with the picture quality.Bottom line: Toshiba's HD DVD players are not yet ready for prime-time. Besides, with the annoying fact that there are 2 competing formats for hi-def DVD (VHS vs Betamax all over again) I am going to wait until HD-DVD or Blu-Ray is declared the winner.
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