Gallery: Cracking open a Toshiba HD DVD player

This $150 1080p up-converting HD DVD player comes with 2 HD DVD movies (300 and Borne Identity) out of the box.

Just what we need, another remote control to add to my collection of dozens of remote controls.

Here’s the Toshiba HD-A30 unit sitting on a table and it’s fairly small and light weight.

After popping off a few screws on the Toshiba HD-A30, the cover came off. You can also see what the back looks like. It comes with an RCA audio/video standard definition output, an HDMI HDCP output, an analog component HD output, and a S/PDIF digital audio output.

Here’s a topside view of the Toshiba HD-A30 with the covers off. It’s a fairly simple device with an embedded motherboard with CPU and graphics processors on the right, an HD DVD ROM drive on the left, and an open frame power supply on the lower left.

The Toshiba HD-A30 seems to be using a miniature 40-pin PATA IDE connector for the optical drive and a small 3.5″ floppy drive power connector. You can see the thin 40-pin ribbon taped down to the chassis.

This is a close-up of the motherboard.