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Toshiba SD-3205 5-Disc DVD Player

Toshiba SD-3205 5-Disc DVD Player

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Love It!
Review: Works wonderfully!

I don't have any problems with it ejecting disks and thought the instructions made it quite clear how to get a just played disk out. For this player, if you press the stop button once, you can resume it right where you left off (like pause works w/o the image on the screen). If you press stop twice, you lose your place and can start over. So, by pressing stop only once it seems quite obvious that the disk is still in the play position and you need to press stop twice to release the disk in the tray.

The player has "paused" a couple of time playing rental DVDs but has never gotten hung up. I expected this to happen as it seems most DVD players do this from time to time. It has been so minor that if you're not staring at the screen, you don't even notice.

My one complaint is not with the player itself but with the installation directions. My husband and I spent a long evening trying to get everything hooked up right. The instruction manual tells you how to hook it up to various audio equipment but doesn't give instructions for any other equipment. We had a heck of a time putting the satellite receiver into the mix, gave up on a VCR and didn't even attempt the Nintendo 64. The instruction guide seems to assume that you will have only a TV, audio equipment and the DVD player. Very frustrating since I assume that most people have either a satellite receiver or cable box. Referring to the documetation for those pieces of equipment is useless because even though these items are only a couple of years old, DVD players weren't mentioned (probably because they weren't as mainstream as now).

All in all, an excellent player that I am very happy with.


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