"A Disgrace"

Strong words for the first HD-DVD player to hit the streets, but that's what Charlie White calls it in his review. About the only favorable thing he had to say is that the image quality was remarkable. Everything else was not good: it was ugly, big, loud, took something like 40 seconds to start up or load a DVD, upsampling of standard-def DVDs was mediocre, HDMI problems cropped up everywhere... yeah, I guess that all might total up to "a disgrace."

Toshiba HD-A1 HD DVD Player