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Summary: Awesome but, small problem
Review: The first DVD I put in (Lost City of Atlantis from Disney) only brought up the commercials, and never went past that (the menu button just brought us back to the beginning of the commercials at the beginning of the DVD). I also did not understand why my other Toshiba (2109) played the same DVD fine, and this one not only did not load the movie, but the picture was crunched, kind of like widescreen but on the opposite side of the screen (the sides were scrunched together).Displeased with that, I put in Star Wars the Phantom Menace. MAN did that rock and roll with awesome sound and nice picture quality. I paid $400 3 years ago for the 2109, $180 today for the 2715....you decide what's a better deal...
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Summary: toshiba sd 2715
Review: the toshiba sd2715 5 disc dvd player, is the best player to date for a family with a 5 year old who is very adept at electronics. ... It takes a max of 10 - 20 seconds tyo load a dvd. Personally i would rather have a 5 to 20 sec wait rather than have to clean or skip a disc. I would give this player a 10 of 10.My son continues to push this unit to the edge with not only sticky fingers but scratched discs and all do great!!!!!
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Summary: Toshiba SD2715 5-Disc DVD / CD Changer With CD-R, CD-RW, DVD
Review: The Toshiba SD2715 is a 5-disc carousel-type DVD changer. As majority of new DVD players, it plays MP3, CD-R and CD-RW. Setup The setup process is greatly simplified by the "First Setup Menu". Not that it is rocket science otherwise :-) ... Styling The changer looks quite plain, although it has a lot of buttons on the front panel. The display is located above the large tray (the tray holds 5 discs in a carousel-type changer). Connections The player has the following connections available: Video: a composite-, an S-video and a ColorStream component video outs. Of course, if your TV has the component-video input, it is the best way to connect the player to it. This bypasses both TV's comb filter and color decoder. The S-Video connection produces picture quality, which is almost as good. If your TV has an S-Video input, connecting to it using a composite video would be a major mistake, as it will introduce cross-luminance artifacts and rainbow-like Moire patterns. The difference between picture quality using composite video connection and S-Video is apparent. The S-Video is much better and allows you to bypass comb filter and feed the separate chrominance and luminance information directly to your TVs color decoder. Given a choice between S-Video connection through the cheap cable and composite connection through the most expensive one, the former will provide better picture than the latter. The changer has a feature called "parallel video out". It allows you watch the movie on several TVs/Monitors at once by connecting to them using S-Video, component (ColorStream) and composite outs. Why would one do something like this is a mistery to me. Audio: The changer also has coaxial and digital audio out as well as analog stereo out. There are two ways to get real surround sound (in addition to the fake "spatializer" that creates an illusion of surround sound from two speakers):
1. Use digital audio connection and a receiver or sound system with Dolby Digital/DTS decoder.
2. Connect analog out to Dolby Pro Logic equipment Picture and Sound The picture and sound quality (both digital through connection and using player's DAC) are excellent. With analog connection, the sound quality depends on the player's DAC and it is very good. Since the changer will probably also be used as a CD-player, it is a good thing that it plays CDs well. MP3, CD-R And CD-RW The changer plays finalized CD-R and CD-RW discs (including CD-Audio and discs with MP3 files). The SD2715 is also CD-Text compatible. It also plays DVD-R and Video CD. Features The changer has other, virtually "standard", DVD features: programmed playback, bookmarks, parental control, CD-audio playback, camera angle select, multi-language and multi-subtitle select, Spatializer N-2-2 Virtual Surround Sound, four slow motion forward/reverse speeds. There is 4-power zoom and still mode, 2x playback. The supplied remote control is well laid-out. Bottom Line The Toshiba SD2715's is an inexpensive and feature-rich DVD/CD changer. It plays CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R and MP3. At [amt] (J&R) it is a very good deal. However, check out Panasonic CV51, if you want something that looks better.
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Summary: Guess what???
Review: This is a great DVD player. It has everything you want (even comes with MP3) at a price you can't beat. It is a 5 CD/DVD holder which is nice. I just put 5 of my favorite movies in and sit back and relax. It's such a good buy. It's easy to set up and easy to use. A great first DVD player for anyone who is thinking of getting a DVD player. I wouldn't use it on my HDTV home theater, but if you just want something simple that looks great, this is the one. It has good sound and picture for the price. Haven't had any problems with it, what can I say I love it. It was cool. Big Truck
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Summary: I Love My DVD Player. ...
Review: This is an awesome DVD player, especially for the price. It's very easy to hook up to your television and 2 AA batteries (for the remote control) are included. The remote control is extremely lightweight and user friendly, which I was actually pleasantly surprised to discover. Prior to buying my new DVD player I had an older model, single tray Toshiba DVD player and the remote weighed a lot more and was very confusing. You really needed to consult the manual to figure out a lot of the features. The 5-tray changer feature is a big convenience, as you can program it to play a 2-CD movie without pause and you can also load a new disc without interrupting play. The picture quality is excellent and the player works with every DVD, DVD-R and CD-R I've tried to play.
It has a "random" button that shuffles the track order of DVDs and CDRs. You can set up the "random" feature in 3 ways: it skips thru one disc randomly and then stops
OR
it skips thru one disc randomly and then goes on to another disc that it skips thru randonly, etc
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it plays 2 random tracks from a disc then moves onto another disc that it plays 2 random tracks from, etc. I have never had any problems playing MP3-based music, but keep in mind that it doesn't display CDR track information directly on the front of the DVD player- if you hit the display button, the track info supposedly shows up onscreen (I haven't tried this yet). For the price you're not getting all the electronic wizardry you could ever ask for, but you ARE getting a solid machine. I highly recommend this DVD player as an excellent midrange-price choice.
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Summary: man it just works
Review: We are delighted with this unit. I have not any major problems and find it quite easy to use. In fact, my 11 year-old son set it up within 15 minutes and we have been going strong since. We esepcially like the fast forward, zoom, and slow motion options with our favorite movies. CDs have played perfectly. I am not keen on the bland video display when playing audio disks. I would prefer an option to blank it out in some way. Haven't gotten to MP3 disks yet but I suspect that the other reviewers are accurate enough. Finally, on quality...we don't have the best equipment, but even a novice like me can see improvement over VHS. Unless you are going the HDTV route this unit can't be beat for the price!
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Summary: Great DVD, not great for CDs
Review: When our 5-disk CD player finally conked out, we replaced it with this slick DVD/CD player. As a DVD player it works just fine, but I doubt most people are looking to shuffle between 5 DVDs. Like us, most people are looking for it to do double duty as the home's primary CD player as well. If so, you might be disappointed. Two big problems: (1) It is too slow in scanning CDs and responding to commands. If you just want to play a CD, you'll hate waiting around for it to be ready to accept your next instruction. (2) The random shuffle mode is poorly designed. If you just hit the "random" button, it will play the tracks on one CD in random order and then stop. Huh? If you are able to get it into the random2 setting, it plays the tracks on the first CD randomly and then the tracks on the next CD randomly. Huh Huh? If you're like me, you want the random function to play the tracks on all CDs in the machine randomly. This DVD player can do that, but it's very hard to get the setting correctly because it involves hitting the random button three times. Now that doesn't sound difficult, but it has to register three hits. That means that you have to do it slow enough that the slow machine registers the hits, but fast enough that it doesn't think you're done -- all this without any indication from the machine of how many hits it has registered. Hint: if you turn your TV on in DVD mode, it will actually tell you which random setting you are on. That's convenient -- NOT.
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Summary: Great DVD, not great for CDs
Review: When our 5-disk CD player finally conked out, we replaced it with this slick DVD/CD player. As a DVD player it works just fine, but I doubt most people are looking to shuffle between 5 DVDs. Like us, most people are looking for it to do double duty as the home's primary CD player as well. If so, you might be disappointed. Two big problems: (1) It is too slow in scanning CDs and responding to commands. If you just want to play a CD, you'll hate waiting around for it to be ready to accept your next instruction. (2) The random shuffle mode is poorly designed. If you just hit the "random" button, it will play the tracks on one CD in random order and then stop. Huh? If you are able to get it into the random2 setting, it plays the tracks on the first CD randomly and then the tracks on the next CD randomly. Huh Huh? If you're like me, you want the random function to play the tracks on all CDs in the machine randomly. This DVD player can do that, but it's very hard to get the setting correctly because it involves hitting the random button three times. Now that doesn't sound difficult, but it has to register three hits. That means that you have to do it slow enough that the slow machine registers the hits, but fast enough that it doesn't think you're done -- all this without any indication from the machine of how many hits it has registered. Hint: if you turn your TV on in DVD mode, it will actually tell you which random setting you are on. That's convenient -- NOT.
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