I finally got a chance to watching Children of Men on HD DVD the past weekend.  Universal again opted to make this new release a Combo Format(HD DVD/DVD) which makes it more expensive.  I had been holding off on this purchase, but with Amazon’s free Prime shipping for a month, made it worth a purchase. 

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While The Covenant has been available on Blu-ray for some time now, I had absolutely zero interest in purchasing it.  It was given great reviews for the PQ, but I just couldn’t see myself spending money on the movie.  It just so happens my co-worker has a PS3 as well and owns The Covenant.  So I borrowed it and finally got around to watching it tonight.

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Toshiba just announced a new firmware update for the following HD-DVD player models: HD-XA2, HD-A20, HD-A2, HD-A2W, and HD-D2 .

 While short on details, the below was copied from Toshiba’s website:

http://www.tacp.toshiba.com/tacpassets-images/notices/hddvd2firmware.asp

Firmware Update Version: 1.5

Applicable Models: HD-XA2, HD-A20, HD-A2, HD-A2W, and HD-D2.

Overview:
As part of our commitment to provide world-class service to our customers, Toshiba is supplying this firmware update for use by purchasers of Toshiba HD DVD Player models HD-XA2, HD-A20, HD-A2, HD-A2W, and HD-D2. This firmware update addresses certain disc playback and HDMI/DVI related problems identified by Toshiba.

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Well anyone that has been following my on going struggle to get my receiver updated, you know what torture this has been for me.  I loved the receiver as it did everything I wanted for a reasonable price.  So onto the bad news.  About 2 and a half weeks ago, I got some bad news from the service center performing the update on my receiver.  After about a month in their possession, they finally fessed up to bricking the receiver.  Basically they told me that my Pioneer Elite VSX-82TXS was now a $1,100 paper weight. 

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