Well, the original question posed by the post concerned audio. That is the idea of using the player as a transport for use with a high quality external dac. The thought was that perhaps with the ram buffer, it might be a relatively inexpensive way to achieve a low jitter result but perhaps that is being naive. Maybe the fan noise rules out even attempting this, but for $300 - $500 this is a ridiculously cheap experiment when one considers the cost of traditional high end digital transports. The video could be looked at as a free bonus.
Toshiba HD DVD player as Transport
Anyone consider using one of the Toshiba HD DVD players as an inexpensive transport with an external DAC. My understanding is that it uses a RAM buffer which may go a long way towards minimizing jitter and timing issues and considering that you can buy these things for around $500 new it might make sense to do something like this and put most of your money into a high quality DAC. Any thoughts?