Toshiba SD-4000 Progressive Scan DivX Certified DVD Player

Short: Great player. skips sometimes Long: I bought this player to finally have my own dvd player since my dvd drive in laptop got stupid and stopped working. It's great. Works amazing with commercial dvds. I burned some avi files to multiple dvds. smaller files with more on one dvd, seem to pause, skip, flicker and pixelate more often than larger files with fewer, say 3 or 5, on one dvd. the pixelation was very apparent when I first used the player, but after a week or so, it went away, and hasn't been seen in months. I'd recommend another, actually thinking about another for my mother and/or some friends. Read more

The Good: It will almost play anything you put into it. THE BAD: This unit has given me more problems than anything i have ever owned. It has no real functions on the face (play-eject), the coax out for digital audio causes a high pitched ringing when it is paused or stopped. This sound from the digital connection will break glasses in your home, and make your ears bleed if you have a large home theater system! Also you can not pick, switch, or program this unit with out it hooked up to the TV, that is the only place you can see anything, since the display shows you nothing. I switched the unit for another, and I got the same high pitched thing in both units, so i returned it for a full refund! Read more

This player is less expensive than the stores. It plays good and is so slim that it is almost unoticable. Easy to use. Read more

I bought this unit to replace an old Panasonic DVD player which had a problem with the slide out tray rarely staying out, so we were always fighting with it. The toshiba won because of the price, component outputs, size (it's nice an small height wise) and the remote looked to be ok from the picture on the box. Plus I work for a Toshiba subsidiary. :] Overall, I'm happy with the unit, though I do have some issues. Minor: It's slow to powerup and respond. If the unit is off and you hit the 'eject' button on the player (not on the remote) it takes around 10 seconds for it to work. I find this annoying, esp when I'm in a rush in the morning to mail a DVD back to netflicks on my way to work. *grin* Minor: The layout of buttons on the remote is not ideal. When will companies take a look at the TiVo remote and replicate it's wonderful layout and design features? The remote is certainly useable, but those buttons you use the most are NOT highlighted in any useful way. At least they're grouped in the center mostly, where your fingers fall when you pickup the remote. Major: For whatever reason, about an hour into some movies, though not all, the video/audio sync starts to drift apart from each other. This drives me crazy since I don't hear as well as my wife and I seem to watch lips and notice if there's a disconnect. I'm hoping there will be some sort of upgrade available for this unit, but I'm not holding my breath. Stopping and restarting the playing of the movie seems to fix the issue, but not completely. My old panasonic never had this issue. I have NOT had a chance to try playing CDROMs with MP3s or DiVX movies, but others seem to think it works just fine. Putting in a disc of jpegs works ok. A bit clunkly, but it's not really anyone's fault since they need to handle a whole bunch of directory layouts, which is tough. Overall, if the Audio/Video sync problem wasn't there, I'd be happy, esp for the price. But the sync issue is going to bug me I'm sure. Read more

The most remarkable thing about this unit is its ability to play avi, wmv and mpeg files, which units that cost twice as much cannot do. The picture quality is an upgrade from the previous DVD player, especially considering that the picture is going into my six year old non-flat screen. It would be the perfect player if the screen saver would kick in after being on pause for awhile and if the unit could remember where it was at in a video, rather than starting over at the beginning, when the unit is powered down. Read more

Like the previous reviewer, this entry-level SD DVD player works pretty well for a few months to a year - then gradually more and more disks become unreadable. The newer Netflix stuff still works 75% of the time, but older DVD all say "Bad Disc". An appliance like this should last at least 5 years, not one... Read more

Really easy to use. I had no problems with this DVD player. I would recommend this player to any one. Read more

This DVD player has done everything I have asked of it, and never once has not dilivered. A great pice of hardwear. Read more