Rating: 
Summary: Poor choice if you plan on using for more than 1 year
Review: This DVD player lasted 11 months.
The player worked great right up to the day it decided to stop working at all.Unfortunately as most people who bought this unit only 1 year ago are finding out when the warranty expires so does the DVD player.
The player had loss of sound and LED display, which seems to be common for this unit after 1 year.
Rating: 
Summary: My Toshiba SD1700 Died 1-Year and 12-Days After Purchase
Review: --
Read the previous 12/18/2002 review by Jeffrey R. Anderson.
The *exact* same thing happened to me. I bought my SD1700 on
12/16/2001 and it died on 12/28/2002, 12 days after the warranty
expired naturally !!!! Just like Anderson, the front display on the player went black
and the audio output went dead. Piece of ..... After reading
the experience that Anderson had with Toshiba, I'm not going to
bother pleading with them, especially since the unit is out of
warranty. I hope that this review will be of help to future buyers.
Rating:
Summary: Early death
Review: This DVD player died less than a year from purchase. I didn't know it had died since it was in storage in my basement. When started up it played good for five seconds then the whole picture [ ] out.
Rating:
Summary: I wish I read these reviews before buying this Piece of...
Review: My brother purchased 2 of these DVD Players. One for himeself, and one which he gave to me as a christmas gift in December of 2001. Today Less than 1 year later both units are DEAD. Both units exhibited the same symptoms. The first thing we noticed was that the display was dead, other than that it seemed to be reading the DVD fine. Well after the copyright warnings, and production logos we quickly realized that there was no sound either. Several email correspondence with Toshiba tech support have been fruitless. I will get NOTHING AND LIKE IT! If this is how they stand behind their products I will never be buying another product bearing the Toshiba name. It is unfortunate that all of the satisfied users who have not had their DVD Players long enough to experience this problem have already left 5 star feedback. It makes for an artifically high overall review.
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Summary: Toshiba SD1700 lifespan shorter than warranty
Review: I got this DVD player for Christmas 2001, it worked great for the first 10 months. It being my first DVD player I had I started with only 3 dvd's. Now after 12 months and 19 dvd's only 6 or 7 will work in the player. All work on my dvd-rom on my computer and all are in excellent condition (no scratches), so the problem is not with the dvd's. When this happens on the dvd's that will not play the system locks up or if you are lucky enough to get it to the menu screen and actually start playing the picture has a great deal of digital distortion, you know the little squares showing up all over the place. Not something I want to see while watching a movie. I have contacted toshiba several times hoping to get some kind of customer satisfaction, 50% of my money back or best case a replacement, but no one will contact me back and I do not do call centers where on-hold h--l runs rampant and nothing ever gets done.
Rating:
Summary: Sound Died
Review: Wow, lots of people having problems with the sound. Me too. Got my SD1700 Sept. 2001 and the sound went out in the middle of Shrek around Oct. 2002. Video still plays but no sound. Too bad, has some great features for the price but apparently can't last a year without failing. I think we only used it about 25 times!
Rating:
Summary: loss of sound, then total failure
Review: I bought this DVD player for a Christmas present last year (2001). It worked fairly well (it did freeze on a couple DVDs out of 20 or so). It worked for about 10 months, then one evening, the sound went out during one DVD. I removed the DVD, shut it off, replaced the DVD, and still no sound. I unplugged the player, plugged it back in, tried to turn it on, and NO POWER. It was completely DEAD and has not turned on since. Parts warranty was 12 months, which would have covered me, but labor warranty was only 3 months, which means I would have paid more in labor charges to fix the player than what a new DVD player would cost. I am disappointed. What a piece of junk.
Rating:
Summary: Add another SD1700 to the trash
Review: I found this review section searching for a solution to my DVD players NON-WORKING audio. Low & Behold I read a review from "torihannah from Lexington, Ky". I bet both our DVD's were made at the exact same time with the exact defective parts. My story now. I too am a Toshiba owner. 35" TV and VCR. Last Christmas (1 week before Christmas day I might add) my husband & I decided to get our first DVD player and settled on Toshiba SD-1700. Worked great. Loved the picture and the whole DVD experiance. Last night 12/2/02 while watching a movie the sound just went. I thought it was maybe a defective DVD. Not so....I don't have a big collection of DVD's but those that I have I know work. I have watched them all. This player has had at the most 20 movie viewings in it's short life span. Just to make sure I hooked up the player to my other TV (with new cables) just to make sure. No sound once again so it is the player. Now reading these reviews I see I'm not the only one. I called Toshiba and of course there is nothing they can do.
Rating:
Summary: Toshiba no longer top quality.
Review: My husband purchased a Toshiba SD1700 DVD player for me for Christmas of 2001. Today (11-23-02) the audio completely died in the middle of a movie my daughter was watching. We contacted Best Buy and they told us that they would ship it off for repair to save us the shipping as Toshiba had a 1 year warranty on parts. We were not told until we got to the store that labor was 60.00 hour....so, since you can now buy a NEW one for under 100.00 we decided to junk it. We have a Toshiba TV and VCR.I am very dissapointed in Toshiba that they too have jumped on the "disposable technology" bandwagon. It is also interesting to note that one of our home comptuers, an E-Machine, had a Toshiba DVD/ROM....that too died early and we replaced it with another brand.
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Summary: sudden disapointment
Review: At first, my wife and I were delighted with this DVD Player. We purchased it from Amazon in conjunction with a Toshiba flat screen television for a great price in a special. Sadly, the DVD player ceased working only a few months after purchase. One day it just didn't play or turn on any more. The full warranty is only for 3 months, and after that you have to pay for shipping and labor for up to a year. We've had this for about 4 months now, so the cost of the manufacturer to repair or send us a refurbished one would be similar to what it would cost to by a new DVD player. We love the television, and the DVD player was great for a simple player. But I thought others should know that it died way to quickly for at least one person out there.
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