[Richard W. Haines]

As I stated in recent posts, I recently acquired the Toshiba HD-XA2 KN high definition player and the
Optoma HD70 projector. Already I'm having problems with the projector and got absolutely no service
help from Circuit City and am waiting to hear from the company itself in terms of fixing some dead pixels.

Now the Toshiba is giving me some problems. I only have two HD discs, "Mutiny on the Bounty"
and "The Wild Bunch". I watched both at 1080i and they looked very good. However, as I was
still figuring out the player I decided I wanted to change the setting to 1080p. "Mutiny" will play
at this output but not "Wild Bunch". The screen says 'no signal' which I try to play it at that setting
even though the box indicates it was mastered in that format. It will only play at 1080i or I get
the 'no signal' message on screen.

The other problem seems to be playing some upscaled standard DVDs. I watched "Support Your
Local Sheriff" and the film went in and out of synch throughout the screening. I double checked
the disc in my Samsung and it plays fine. Now I don't have digital optical sound but rather two
amplifiers to playback through the 5.1 analog sound. (The extra amp is for the center channel
which I like to keep separate from the others). No synch problem with the HD discs but some
with standard upscaled. I suppose I could just use the Samsung HD841 for standard discs which
upscales them fine too but this player cost a lot of money and I'd like it to work with the Toshiba.
I noticed some others complained about analog synch sound problems in reviews. I don't have
Broadband Internet to upload modifications and am waiting for the CD-ROMS which will do the
same but at least one consumer said it didn't help. Anyone have similar problems and know the
remedy other than switching to optical sound and purchasing new amplifiers?