5. Turning the HD-A1 On, Continued

An Ethernet (Internet) connection is part of what will set HD-DVD players apart from standard DVD players. DVD-ROM content has been around for years on DVD but you needed to be watching the movie on a computer with a DVD-ROM drive. Now the masses will be able to access online content instead of passing it over because it's inaccessible. And if HD-DVD producers are creative there's an opportunity to borrow some of the personalization opportunities from Xbox Live and integrate them with HD-DVD.

After a few minutes tuning my machine I was ready to exit the setup menu. An onscreen prompt asked I "press setup to exit" to accomplish this seemingly simple task. Yet I looked all over the remote and could not find the damned button. I even pressed every single button, including a pair of unlabeled ones, in search of an exit. There was none to be found. At first I was resigned to chalking up this oddity as a first-generation bug. Then the phantom setup button began to nag at the back of my brain so into the instruction booklet I dove. What did I find? A panel on the bottom of the remote slides open to reveal the setup button, a full numerical pad and new jagged edge where the top panel overhangs the bottom edge. Unless Toshiba whips up a quick sticker with an arrow denoting a hidden compartment on the remote, I fear many consumers will never find the elusive setup button.