Any news about new DD/DTS upgrade on HDDVD?

The DD+ signal will not pass via optical or coaxial....so it downgrades it to hi bit tate DTS....or at least your gear reads it as DTS...which is 15 db down on Warner titles.
Only Analog or Hdmi can handle the bandwidth of the DD+ signal.
Hdmi,as well as analog 5.1 on the Toshiba will pass DD+....but to be on the safe side....this player will never decode DTS-HD without downressing it in some form....so the best thing to do for those with patience, is wait for hd dvd and BD players with hdmi 1.3...which will not only decode all codecs, it will offer built in lip sync help also.

I ended up taking the player back to BB.
Its just so slow at loading and everything else..it will re-start the movie after pushing anything other than pause,it never remembers were you left off in the movie, I have had a dark blue screen instead of the movie a few times, as well as hdmi error codes.
Others have had the player freeze during playback, but mine only frooze while trying to start a disc a couple of times.

It took the manager at BB 3.5-4 minutes to get the hd dvd disc out of the player that I forgot after plugging it in, which I thought was ironic because he mentioned he thought these new players were rediculously slow just before this.

Also its far more sensitive to hum using analog cables than any player I have ever tried.

To some the picture as well as improved audio via analog or hdmi is worth the quirks....but I will wait for Blu Ray, and maybe buy another hd dvd player down the road when the quirks are worked out.

Another flub on the part of Toshiba is that these players clip blacks via hdmi...but not component, which I find very ironic since hdmi is supposed to be the defacto standard.

Ears- I dont disagree with anything you are saying. But the Blue Ray players are going to have their own set of issues the first time out as well. They will be different. But there will be issues....

So is there any guess at when HDMI 1.3 might become commonly available in pre/pros and players?

What about a IEEE 1394 connection for HD movie audio...is that a possibility once the decoders hit the market?

BTW, when could the decoders [for DTS HD, DD+, and whatever other new HD audio formats] hit the market?

The whole audio side of high definition DVDs is rather disappointing.

Rysa, thats a very good point that there will indeed be some sort of problems with the first BD players also.
Theres an insider opinion from a guy from Warner and his group...that the Samsung BD player is basically far better than the Toshiba hd dvd player....and they have both as well as test dics to trip up both formats.
They say the Samsung hs no hdmi issues, loads quicker, and is silent with no fan noise...as well as there pick of the two players.
This is good news because maybe there seeing the many reports on the Toshiba...and avoiding the same pitfalls for initial BD players with there extra time before launch.

Even if the BD players end up being much better from a user standpoint...both formats are not using there full specs with regard to audio...on the first players....which is very dissapointing.