Toshiba Refurbished HD-DVD Player…for $199 June 19, 2007 Mike Garcen True it’s refurbished, but HD-DVD player from Toshiba has finally hit that magic number of $199 from Tiger Direct!! Pretty impressive, and a good sign that they’re finally waking up. Now at least it’s less expensive than an XBox360. Tiger Direct The HD-A1 HD DVD player delivers outstanding resolution, bright, vivid colors and stunning sound from the next generation DVD standard adopted by the DVD forum. The HD-A1 is backwards compatible with standard DVDs and allows you to enjoy your existing collection of DVDs. The HD-A1 offers Video Up-conversion via the HDMI interface which scales the standard DVD video to output resolution of 720p or 1080i, matching the output to the resolution of your HDTV. And with the built in multi-channel decoders for Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD (2ch), DTS and DTS-HD, the HD-A1 will bring improved fidelity and sonic realism to your DVD movie soundtracks. FacebookTwitterEmail tagged with High Definition Optical Discs (Blu-ray and HD DVD)