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Summary: Insert Disk Error
Review: At least received near 3 years of use, but received the famous insert disk error on any CD and DVD. Similar as many reported on numerous sites. Stay away from Toshiba.
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Summary: Yuck
Review: Bad trouble with my Toshiba DVD. Ran for a couple days. Then ate 2 discs, refusing to start. Electronics on it just stopped working. Not at all happy.
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Summary: Outstanding Performance for a Low Price!!!
Review: I absolutely love this DVD Player!! The quality of the picture rocks, especially when connected via component cable. The sound ( I am running it with a Bose Lifestyle 12 system I bought before digital) is also amazing, in both DVD and CD. Actually, CD's sound better to me in the 3205 than what I was previously using. The remote is very easy to use, with a simple on screen menu. The only bad part is that the unit will not release just played discs!! I have tried to figure out why, but cannot. Overall if you want a great DVD/CD Player for under $300.00, go with the Toshiba 3205!!
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Summary: This is one great player!
Review: I bought this player last year and it really is fantastic! I was skeptical about the hype regarding DVD vs. VHS picture quality until I watched the first DVD. An extraordinary "home theater" system is not required to get great viewing/sound quality. My 35" TV is 8 years old and I have a "pre-digital Dolby" Bose Lifestyle 25 for audio. Both are more than adequate. I will ding Toshiba for the hard-to-see disk position numbers; I can't figure out why they are there anyway. When you load a single DVD/CD in the tray and close it the monitor displays the disk position number. With multiple media, the last DVD/CD loaded is the first in the play queue and you can change that using the disk skip button. Some people have complained about not being able to "remove" media from the player. I don't know if this is a feature or a flaw. During playpack the media is lifted/loaded from the tray into the reader. If you hit the open/close button while a title is in "play" mode the active title is still loaded in the reader. To actually retrieve your DVD/CD you have to press the stop button prior to opening the tray. (Maybe this is just a function of multi-players.) It's a coin-toss; a line or two in the documentation would have been enough to satisfy me.
So the pro-list is: great picture and sound, easy set-up, good documentation (re-read it after a few weeks), excellent remote, quiet playback, terrific price.
And the con-tally: disk numbering and removal (sort-of).It's 5-stars in my book.
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Summary: This is one great player!
Review: I bought this player last year and it really is fantastic! I was skeptical about the hype regarding DVD vs. VHS picture quality until I watched the first DVD. An extraordinary "home theater" system is not required to get great viewing/sound quality. My 35" TV is 8 years old and I have a "pre-digital Dolby" Bose Lifestyle 25 for audio. Both are more than adequate. I will ding Toshiba for the hard-to-see disk position numbers; I can't figure out why they are there anyway. When you load a single DVD/CD in the tray and close it the monitor displays the disk position number. With multiple media, the last DVD/CD loaded is the first in the play queue and you can change that using the disk skip button. Some people have complained about not being able to "remove" media from the player. I don't know if this is a feature or a flaw. During playpack the media is lifted/loaded from the tray into the reader. If you hit the open/close button while a title is in "play" mode the active title is still loaded in the reader. To actually retrieve your DVD/CD you have to press the stop button prior to opening the tray. (Maybe this is just a function of multi-players.) It's a coin-toss; a line or two in the documentation would have been enough to satisfy me.
So the pro-list is: great picture and sound, easy set-up, good documentation (re-read it after a few weeks), excellent remote, quiet playback, terrific price.
And the con-tally: disk numbering and removal (sort-of). It's 5-stars in my book.
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Summary: Give Me Back My Disc!!!
Review: I bought, I tried, I returned. I don't think people have stressed enough the fact that removing a disc from this machine can be real frustrating. Why should it be frustrating just to remove a disc from the player? Terrible design flaw from Toshiba. Otherwise, the DVD player seemed excellent. I bought unit to replace a 5-disc CD changer, but I think I will buy a single disc DVD and a new CD changer. This unit was particularly finicky about the type of CD-R's that it would play. Therefore, not a good choice for replacing a CD changer IMHO. I may buy the Toshiba SD2200 because the video, menu system, remote etc... was all fine on the SD3205 player. This unit (and the SD2200) also needs a second set (it has only one) of analog audio outputs - one for TV one for A/V reciever.
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Summary: Happy to have it!
Review: I did a lot of research before buying, and I'm very happy with my decision. I was going to try to get a PS2, but decided to get this instead (since there was no way I would get the PS2!). The set up is simple, and the playback is great! The audio is incredible, and the features live up to the reputation. I've only had a couple of glitches, like trying to skip tracks and the machine won't respond unless the button is pressed several times. Other than that, most of the little things are fixed by reading the manual and learning the machine. I would recommend this to a friend or family member, it's a great deal, works great playing multiple discs, and has made me want to get a new reciever and speakers which can keep up with it!
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Summary: Same Problems
Review: I had the same problem with this unit that many people have had, Disc Errors, Mech. Errors, you name it, of course all this started a couple months after the one-year warranty. I wrote Toshiba's headquarters and enclosed copies of dozens of complaints from other websites to ask them if they considered this a known problem. I will not pay for repair of product where dozens, probably hundreds of people are having the same trouble. Anyway, they called two weeks later and said there was nothing they can do. Well, I figured out how to (sometimes) get the disk to play; bang the DVD player up and down very hard and loudly, about ten times, and you might get the LOADIING message. Soon I will chuck this p.o.s. over the balcony after burning $... and never buy ANYTHING from Toshiba.
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Summary: Worst electronic purchase ever! Stay away for Toshiba!
Review: I had the same problem with this unit that many people have had, Disc Errors, Mech. Errors, you name it, of course all this started a couple months after the one-year warranty. I wrote Toshiba's headquarters and enclosed copies of dozens of complaints from other websites to ask them if they considered this a known problem. I will not pay for repair of product where dozens, probably hundreds of people are having the same trouble. Anyway, they called two weeks later and said there was nothing they can do. Well, I figured out how to (sometimes) get the disk to play; bang the DVD player up and down very hard and loudly, about ten times, and you might get the LOADIING message. Soon I will chuck this p.o.s. over the balcony after burning $... and never buy ANYTHING from Toshiba.
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Summary: Same Problems
Review: I had this unit for about 2 years, and after playing a VCD for the first time, it lost it's mind. Lots of green and red blocks on the screen. After that, I get the (apparently famous) Insert Disk message, and it won't play anything (DVD, CD, VCD, etc). I expect my consumer electronics to last longer than 24 months.
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