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Refusing to repair $2,000 DVD-Audio players that wouldn't play DVD-Audio disks (I had an SD-9200) ... throwing fortune after fortune into HD-DVD until it was dead and decayed ... declining product quality in various business units ... hardly a surprise. I won't miss them.
Although failing to repair your Toshiba SD~9200 was inexcusable, if you recall at the time the HD~DVD format was considered somewhat superior to the original SONY Blu~ray launch by numerous audio/video publications. I fell for the hype, as well, with over 80+ HD~DVDs in my collection.
For 'nostalgia' purposes, I should reactivate the player by plugging it directly into my new OLED TV and see how it stacks up against my OPPO. A further recollection was the clincher when some of those later HD~DVD releases wouldn't play in the Toshiba player as they required a 'firmware' update which Toshiba failed to deliver so of those HD~DVDs in my collection, some of them just wouldn't play without that firmware update!