Toshiba Releases Firmware 3.0 for First Gen HD DVD Players
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In what very well may be the final update, Toshiba has released firmware version 3.0 for the HD-A1, HD-D1, and the HD-XA1 HD DVD players.
Toshiba says the firmware "Improves network connectivity for supporting the download of web-enabled network content associated with certain HD DVD discs, improves certain video and audio processing capabilities, and also addresses certain disc playback and HDMI/DVI related issues."
We do wonder if Toshiba plans on fixing the Mpeg4 AVC issues that are messed up in the latest HD-A3/HD-A30/HD-A35 firmware.
The latest FW for all HD DVD players can be downloaded here
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Patching up AVC issues?! Wait… I thought that that Toshiba/HDDVD was finalized! Now we have the confusion of 3.0 and 2.x firmware releases?!
OMG END OF THE WORLD
I am actually amazed they still care.
Can someone please post a link to a description of the HD-A3/HD-A30/HD-A35 firmware issues?
Nice job by Toshiba