We wanted a new upconvert DVD player primarily to view our very large library of VCD's SVCD's and DVD's that we have burned of photos from our travels. This player said that it would play all of those formats. (It is becoming hard to find players that still support some of our older collection) This player performed very well with our older VCD's. However with a brand new just burned DVD,we kept getting a bad disc message. After repeating the burn several times,we hooked up our old and dying player,and it worked great. The phone call to Toshiba tech support was most disappoin ting. They informed me that,regardless of what their specs on this player said, it would not play + DVD's. Their only solution was to use only -DVD's. We returned this player(thank you,Amazon--no hassle) and bought a Yamaha. The Yamaha is really super,and well worth the few extra dollars. Toshiba tech support was a big disappointment. They had no interest in resolving the problem. Read more
I like the streamline design. The functionality is fine. The "upconversion" aspect is a bit confusing. I guess it does as advertised but I notice a degredation in quality when its upconverted. Read more
I got my dvd player on 12-10-2007 at so far it works. The only thing I find wrong is some dvd's it doesnt format to 1080, like my troy dvd. No matter what I did It wouldnt fit my tv screen but my other dvd's did. Does anyone know is that suppose to happen? I say its a good deal and a nice dvd player. Read more
I bought this DVD specifically because it sounded like it had Digital Optical audio (TOSLINK) output. But it doesn't. It only has Coaxial output! This player is not different from less expensive version SD-5000 (except blue light under the door). Toshiba customer service was useless in this matter. Everything else is good about this player! Read more
There are a few things that I did not like about this DVD Player. The biggest problem at first was the unresponsiveness. We would often press a button on the remote more than once because we did not think it had registered. Even the buttons on the player were unresponsive. Another minor issue was that we did not like the fact that only the chapter is displayed when the disc is player. We would much rather have the elapsed time shown. At this price, point I also expected the player to have an optical TOSlink audio out connection. The worst problem with this player, though, is that about 2 weeks after purchasing, the player started malfunctioning. When the stop button was pressed, the video would stop, but the disc would continue to spin. If you then ejected the disc, it would spin in the tray. We returned the player and purchased the Sony DVP-NS77H/B which is performing nicely so far. I would avoid this player. Read more
We purchased this model about 3 weeks ago, and so far, it seems to be working okay. I agree with the other users in that the system is incredibly slow to respond to any button press, it can take a good 5-7 seconds for the player to respond, and by then you'd think that the system wasn't functioning. But, besides that issue, not displaying time, and having to purchase an HDMI cord, I'm happy with it (the other issues don't bother me that much.) The picture quality is fantastic. We also found that we could play a region 4 PAL dvd from Australia in the player with no issues, as well as play region 1 NTSC discs just fine. We have yet to try a region 2 PAL dvd, but we never had to unlock the system, so I was wondering if anyone knew if it was just made region-free? If so, it's a great bonus! Read more
The dvd player is nice plays AVI's and all the other format now I can put all the avi files on one dvd and save on dvd's Read more
