I'm sure people can live with waiting for for a week to get this excellent player. Forget the 1080p/24 output. It's a non factor for %90 of the HDTV market which doesn't support 24/48/72 input.
The big news is the Silicon Optix Reon VX processor. Confirmation is in that thread about this feature and for those that don't know Silicon Optix Realta ($$$$) and Reon are the new darlings of movie playback processing.
For those people that though the HD-XA2 was just about 1080p outputs you can now rest assured that the XA2 is "Turbocharged" and will have plenty of benefits for the higher end home theatre.
Why should consumers forget about getting the one output format the movies are recorded upon? Sounds like the DVD forum should have calculated this and with proper and appropriate predictive determination chose a storage format that was readily available.
But the reason behind chosing 24 fps is because that is the rate at which film is recorded in the United States, so I see no reason why continued support for legacy NTSC frame-rates should even worth considering.
And the only reason why few display products support 24 fps is because those products are designed to be either inexpensive, non-home theater products, or not meant to take a serious approach at reproducing the original film.
Considering the price is now above what entry-level Blu-ray players are being offered at, I think Toshiba will continue to see an up-hill battle in winning consumers over in the long-term.
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I'm sure people can live with waiting for for a week to get this excellent player. Forget the 1080p/24 output. It's a non factor for %90 of the HDTV market which doesn't support 24/48/72 input.
The big news is the Silicon Optix Reon VX processor. Confirmation is in that thread about this feature and for those that don't know Silicon Optix Realta ($$$$) and Reon are the new darlings of movie playback processing.
For those people that though the HD-XA2 was just about 1080p outputs you can now rest assured that the XA2 is "Turbocharged" and will have plenty of benefits for the higher end home theatre.
Why should consumers forget about getting the one output format the movies are recorded upon? Sounds like the DVD forum should have calculated this and with proper and appropriate predictive determination chose a storage format that was readily available.
But the reason behind chosing 24 fps is because that is the rate at which film is recorded in the United States, so I see no reason why continued support for legacy NTSC frame-rates should even worth considering.
And the only reason why few display products support 24 fps is because those products are designed to be either inexpensive, non-home theater products, or not meant to take a serious approach at reproducing the original film.
Considering the price is now above what entry-level Blu-ray players are being offered at, I think Toshiba will continue to see an up-hill battle in winning consumers over in the long-term.