Toshiba HD XA2 True HD Audio

[Bob Rapoport]

Donzilla, Good idea about the coupon. However, we dont usually compete with our dealers and they would probably be upset if we did. Try SewellDirect.com for a better price or any of our other dealers. They might haggle with you.
Although they advertise it at list price, we dont tell them what to sell it for.

[slugbug]

Got an email saying there's a $100 mail in rebate on this model, and an offer for 5 free hd dvd movies. Unfortunately both of these offers are for the US only.
No $100 rebate offer in Canada and only 3 hd dvd movies already in the box.

[bryan562]

So has anyone figured out this whole DTS Master HD and Dolby True HD thing yet? Im still soooooooo friggin' confused by it!

[tigeraudio2007]

The HD-XA2 has the capability of passing the bitstream of Dolby TrueHD and DTS HD via its HDMI 1.3 output to a receiver with HDMI 1.3 inputs and Dolby TrueHD and DTS HD decoding capabilities.

All is not lost if you have the HD-XA2 but no HDMI 1.3 inputs. The player can also decode the TrueHD and DTS HD internally and output the audio as LPCM over the HDMI output to a receiver capable of receiving PCM audio via HDMI, or out through the HD-XA2's analog outputs to your receiver.

First Generation Toshiba players were only capable transmitting 2-channel Dolby TrueHD, thus Dolby Digital Plus was the best audio from those players. That was corrected with the second generation players.

So, basically, HDMI 1.3 can carry the non-decoded bitstream version of the 2 formats. Any other version of HDMI can carry the internally decoded PCM version of the 2 formats.