[aido]

Hi all, I've just picked up my first HD-DVD player today (well two actually!)

I've now got one Toshiba HD E1 which I've just finished upgrading for the region unlock, and one of the HD DVD drives for the Xbox360.

So far I've not really noticed much difference between 1080i on the E1 and 1080p on the 360 but saying that I need to sit and do some tests tonight. The main reason was that the test disk I used, Transformers, causes havoc with the 360 which from what I've read is a known fault.

I just wondered does the picture get much better by upgrading to something like the EP30 / EP35 so that I can get 1080/24p?

I've seen a few posts saying it's possible to use a hacked EP10 firmware on the E1 to get 1080p so I'm just going to look down that route now to see if it's viable

As for the E1 I'm really impressed, I bought a Samsung HDTV at the weekend - just picked up an LE40B550 hoping I could hack it for the MKVs but no such luck - and that came with an upsampling Samsung HDTV player - the HD1080 - but from what I've seen of that it's no comparison to the Toshiba unit for playing SDTV DVDs!

[BrianPK]

I think you would need to be eagle eyed to spot any difference on a panel less than 52" imo....but I stand to be corrected.Just carry on being impressed with your E1.

[aido]

Thanks for the reply Brian, as it is I actually got an EP35 earlier so looking forward to giving that a go!

I picked it up purely so I can see what 1080p/24 / 1080/24p (which one of those is actually right as I've seen both mentioned) is all about, I'm really happy with the E1 so far, was impressed with SD upscaling too so hopefully the 35 will be even better