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 Toshiba = Junk September 7, 2008
trippenhammer (Miami, FL)
I purchased this expensive player, and it stopped working after a year. During that time, it refused to play a large number of disks. Thankfully, I had an Xbox that could play DVD's fine.
Also, Toshiba customer service is abysmal. When you have a problem outside of warranty, they offer to sell you the same product again, or the newer model, at almost retail pricing. Avoid Toshiba products like the plague.
 Very poor DVD player August 14, 2008
Nathan Beauchamp (Oak Park, IL USA)
I bought this DVD player to pair with my Toshiba 42RV530U (Which I love). It is a sleek, sexy looking DVD player. That concludes anything positive in this review. The player frequently pauses during playback, creates distortion or stuttering the picture, and occasionally freezes and will not respond at all! The only option is to reboot the player, which is very frustrating when in the middle of a film. It's caused me much embarrassment when watching movies with friends. I wondered if the problem was with me using older, possibly scratched disks. That ended when I put in a brand new copy of Kill Bill and experienced the same issues. I also wondered if it was a heat issue, and so I put the player by itself with longer cables to give it plenty of room to breath. The player still crashed during playback. Frankly, this is the worst piece of consumer electronics I've ever had the misfortune to purchase. If it wasn't too late, I would return it.
Stay away from this DVD player!
stopped working after a month May 27, 2008
P. P. Lai (San Francisco, CA USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Good picture quality, good sound, worked great... after a month, poof, it stopped working. Any dvd I'd put in the player would not read and the player was stuck on "load". Nothing I did to try to remedy it worked. The repair shop's fix would cost more than what I paid for this piece of crap machine. I guess you get what you pay for.
Avoid May 12, 2008
Mike K (Chicagoland)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I purchased this DVD player when I bought (on-line) a new big screen LCD TV. The price was right and I liked the fact that the DVD player would "upconvert" the video image and that it had a HDMI output (the cable was not included). The unit was thin and it came with a nice remote so initially I was happy.
I tried the unit with the supplied RCA connectors and I was not happy with the picture quality. I then purchased an HDMI cable and the picture improved, but I thought it was OK not great.
We had the player for about 6 weeks. By then I threw away the box and (sadly) misplaced the receipt. One day I put a brand new DVD in and the player started to halt and freeze. I tried another DVD that had worked in the player and it did the same thing. I unplugged the player and then plugged it back in. Now it played the video but every 20-30 seconds the audio would buzz loudly. My wife commented "Oh it has been doing that buzzing for a couple of days, I thought I was doing something wrong." Several other attempts results in a similar outcome. The DVD player is now in the garbage and I'm wiser. I purchased a Panasonic DVD/VHS combo player with "upconversion" and the picture is noticeably better when I watch DVDs (naturally the VHS portion is only so so, but watchable). Better yet, the Panasonic player actually works.
I would definitely avoid this player. Too many people have the same complaint. Spend a little more and buy a better product.
Toshiba SD 5000 Located at the Local Landfill April 3, 2008
Jeffrey J. Ward
This product freezes on every DVD I try to play on it. Usually, not until late in the DVD when things are getting interesting. You cannot fast forward or do anything to get around this problem. I tried to contact Toshiba Customer support during the warranty period without any luck. Then I realized life is too short for this and that trash pickup was on Thursday so off it went to the landfill. This is the last Toshiba product I will ever buy.
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