Toshiba HD-EP30 HD-DVD & HDMI Upscaling DVD Player For £49.99 Del & 2 Free Films.

PeteHerts

spaceman5 wrote: »

oh here is a review from someone who brought on from play, he mentions that there is about 400 region free films to choose from, here is the review :-

Should have reviewed this months ago when i paid £200 for it. Even at that price it was worth every penny. Yes Bluray won, but this is a dedicated machine that will upgrade DVD so well some are hard pressed to tell the difference. About 400 region free HD-DVDs to choose from, bargains can be had. I'm tempted to buy another for the bedroom it's such a good machine.
Understand though, this is a computer in most respects and takes a minute to boot up. This annoyed me until i realised. And if you stop watching a film and turn it off, hit resume play and not just play as it will start from the beginning.
Sound and image quality are truly amazing. Very sound buy.

so i presumed because he mentioned region free films, he had watched them on this machine

From what I've just read the HD-DVD part is region free but normal DVD's are locked to region 2.

spaceman5

PeteHerts wrote: »

There is a region free fix for the HDEP10 but not for our machines at the mo.
Hopefully Toshiba will do this in the future with an update but there's no way of knowing for sure

just reading a few reviews, u may be correct in the player not being region free, but it seems all hd dvd films are region free, so you can buy a film from anywhere and watch it, as long as 1) it has an english audio track or 2) you are fluent in more than 1 language, which unfortunately for me i am not, lol

spaceman5

PeteHerts wrote: »

The only HD-DVD burner I've found is over £200!

that shows how much i know, i thought u could burn them with a normal dvd burner, mind you i am not that technically minded anyway, unfortunately, would save us a lot of money if i was, lol

PeteHerts

spaceman5 wrote: »

that shows how much i know, i thought u could burn them with a normal dvd burner, mind you i am not that technically minded anyway, unfortunately, would save us a lot of money if i was, lol

They've started mucking around with converting Blu-ray to HD-DVD so it would be very handy to have a HD-DVD burner.

Raven

There has been talk that a hack already exists that will unlock both the 30 and 35 Tosh players but has yet to be made public, some guy in Oz - so hopefully the R1 Sd disks that most of us have many of will soon be able to be played/upscaled.


Raven

crumpetman

abomb1969 wrote: »

Question for the informed: can you burn avi's to dvd and play them through this?

Cheers

No one has answered this yet, at least, not correctly. This machine does not play avi or divx files. You would have to convert them to DVD (standard definition DVD at that) format and burn onto a regular dvdr to play it.

If you have the space for two players and intend on buying some HD-DVDs then I recommend getting the toshiba for HD-DVD and excellent upscaling of SD DVD and also get yourself a cheap divx compatible DVD player with HDMI output and USB port.

Aiadi

crumpetman wrote: »

No one has answered this yet, at least, not correctly. This machine does not play avi or divx files. You would have to convert them to DVD (standard definition DVD at that) format and burn onto a regular dvdr to play it.

This really super easy to do. Just use the free software AVI2DVD and convert all your movies onto DVD and save yourself from buying Divx player or anything else.

MVC

I bought one of the Play.com 7 disc bundles but haven't had time to use the machine yet.

In theory HD-DVD players support playback of .m2t files from recordable discs.

You can burn 20 minutes of HDV content (.m2t files) to a single layer recordable DVD, twice that to a dual layer disc.

If I get chance I'll try it out over the next few days.