First Gen Toshiba players getting update !

[Maxx_75]

Next week first Generation Toshiba HD DVD players (XA-1, A-1) will finally recieve a long awaited firmware update to 2.1.

Details are few and far between but disk skips ect are suppose to be addressed. Hopefully they took there time on this one and fixed a few things because people will be irked if it took this long to come out with one than doesnt. Many people still report DVI colorspace issues ect. Time will tell.

[Sir Terrence]

Where did you get this information? I am curious.

[Bee]

If this is true, I'm very excited to see if load up times will be decreased.

[TaiwaneSTUD]

yes,,, that's great... finally my HD-A1 can be updated.

i'm sure they took a long time to fix whatever problems they've found on it.

[Maxx_75]

Originally Posted by Sir Terrence

Where did you get this information? I am curious.

This is from Robert of Value Electronics via his Toshiba contacts. He has proven himself to be a good source of information in the past.

Although from time to time he has jumped the gun on how ready the are to release a firmware. He was a bit early on the A-2 release but it ended up comming just as he had said.

[Maxx_75]

Originally Posted by Bee

If this is true, I'm very excited to see if load up times will be decreased.

I doubt that load times will be affected. This will likely be a bug fix update dealing with DVI issues and playback skipping ect. If it does offer more responsivness I wouldn't image a big increase in speed. The load times ect are more than anything a result of the drive itself than software.

[Sir Terrence]

Originally Posted by Maxx_75

This is from Robert of Value Electronics via his Toshiba contacts. He has proven himself to be a good source of information in the past.

Although from time to time he has jumped the gun on how ready the are to release a firmware. He was a bit early on the A-2 release but it ended up comming just as he had said.

Coolness,
Maybe now I will stop bad mouthing Toshiba for the lack of support of the first players. After all, we did put them on the map

[Mal Reynolds]

I'm sure (if memory serves) that Toshiba did originally say they'd support the G1 players into 2007, and here we are.

To be fair, they have to protect their bottom line, and if they've sold as many A-2s as has been reported, I can understand why the A-2 firmware update would get priority.

[Bee]

Any word on this update yet?

[jporter]

Excellent information, I'll be watching for the update. They were pretty quick at first, but it's been a while since 2.0...

[dwirving68]

Robert Zohn from Value Electronics replied to my inquiry over at Hometheaterforum.com, saying that we should see the new first gen firmware update by Friday of this week.

[Maxx_75]

Translated from the original Japaneese......

As for corporation Toshiba on the 9th, software of HD DVD player "HD-XA1" version rise. "Ver.2.1" of up-to-date version was released. With up-to-date version, reading efficiency of the disk it has improved. Version rise method besides the fact that it downloads from the Toshiba server making use of substance functional "ethernet communication", does also the sending service of CD-ROM which recorded the rise data. It guides the details of sending service in the same company home page.

So it would appear that the 2.1 Update has shown up in Japan. Hopefully it will get here sometime today.

[Robert Zohn]

Actually due today and since it's just Friday morning in Japan I hope they stick to the schedule that I was promised.

-Robert

[Bee]

Is there anyway we can burn the update on a CD-ROM? The last update I downloaded I was never able to get all 100% of it.

[eNoize]

Awesome, I'll be calling on Monday for a disk.