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Summary: Beware of good reviews
Review: A good review written soon after purchase is not a good indication of what is in store. Like another buyer, my decision was made on good reviews. The unit worked great for 18 months, but then the drawer refused to open. Not much to be done except get a new one.
On checking the reviews, found a number of people had problems after the honeymoon.
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Summary: Third time's a charm!!
Review: After an arduous journey through the world of HDTV, Progressive Scan, and Dolby/DTS 5.1, I have to say that I have finally found my golden fleece. As a beginner, I thought Sony was the brand to buy, but I was much chagrined after seeing the Toshiba.I first had a Sony DVP-NS715P that I exchanged for a Sony DVP NC655P 5-Disc Changer. On both Sony models, the progressive scan image quality was terrible. The reds and blues would appear blurry and horridly undefined. The only way I could get it to look halfway decent was to run the player through S-Video on Interlaced, defeating the purpose of having progressive scan. At first I thought it was my TV, but when I tested it out with the same TV with different settings at the dealer at which I bought my TV (A Sony KV32HV600 HDTV Monitor, mind you), it still looked bad. I tested the Toshiba SD-4800 and the image quality between them was like night and day. The clarity and definition was more than what I had expected from HDTV/Progressive scan. I took the DVPNC655P back to Best Buy and got the Toshiba, and I won't be looking back!
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Summary: Third time's a charm!!
Review: After an arduous journey through the world of HDTV, Progressive Scan, and Dolby/DTS 5.1, I have to say that I have finally found my golden fleece. As a beginner, I thought Sony was the brand to buy, but I was much chagrined after seeing the Toshiba. I first had a Sony DVP-NS715P that I exchanged for a Sony DVP NC655P 5-Disc Changer. On both Sony models, the progressive scan image quality was terrible. The reds and blues would appear blurry and horridly undefined. The only way I could get it to look halfway decent was to run the player through S-Video on Interlaced, defeating the purpose of having progressive scan. At first I thought it was my TV, but when I tested it out with the same TV with different settings at the dealer at which I bought my TV (A Sony KV32HV600 HDTV Monitor, mind you), it still looked bad. I tested the Toshiba SD-4800 and the image quality between them was like night and day. The clarity and definition was more than what I had expected from HDTV/Progressive scan. I took the DVPNC655P back to Best Buy and got the Toshiba, and I won't be looking back!
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Summary: J. Jester
Review: Great dvd player. mp3 play back is good. even does dvd-audio which is a plus. great deal for under $$$. progressive-scan is truely amazing on an hdtv set.
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Summary: Good while it lasted
Review: I bought a toshiba sd 4700 the previous model before this one
and I must say that it performed well, However within a years time it refused to play certain dvd"s that I played many times before on it. It would just lock up at the menu and the machine would just freeze it was extreemly frustrating. So I got rid of it and bought the Harmon Kardon 101 DVD player which I must say blows the Toshiba out of the water, the color and sound are outstanding The Progressive scan on this machine should be what these other light weights are judged by...........
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Summary: A NOT HAPPY WITH TOSHIBA REVIEW
Review: I bought a toshiba sd 4700 the previous model before this one
and I must say that it performed well, However within a years time it refused to play certain dvd"s that I played many times before on it. It would just lock up at the menu and the machine would just freeze it was extreemly frustrating. So I got rid of it and bought the Harmon Kardon 101 DVD player which I must say blows the Toshiba out of the water, the color and sound are outstanding The Progressive scan on this machine should be what these other light weights are judged by...........
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Summary: A NOT HAPPY WITH TOSHIBA REVIEW
Review: I bought a toshiba sd 4700 the previous model before this one
and I must say that it performed well, However within a years time it refused to play certain dvd"s that I played many times before on it. It would just lock up at the menu and the machine would just freeze it was extreemly frustrating. So I got rid of it and bought the Harmon Kardon 101 DVD player which I must say blows the Toshiba out of the water, the color and sound are outstanding The Progressive scan on this machine should be what these other light weights are judged by...........
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Summary: Not reliable in DVD playing
Review: I bought my SD-4800 here on Amazon based on the high reviews I've seen. I like the remote control and the player works fine with my HDTV, when it works. The problem is that it doesn't always work. Most recently I found that it won't play Gladiator. Instead it just puts up an error message "Bad Disk". This is a real store-bought copy of Gladiator, not a copy or home-burnt DVD. There are no visible scratches on the disk and it plays fine in other DVD players (including a Toshiba combo DVD/TV player I have.) Tech support from Toshiba has been less than helpful. Apparently they don't make firmware updates available any longer. In short, a fine DVD player for many movies. But it won't work with all, including many popular ones.
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Summary: Great bang for the buck
Review: I don't pretend to be an expert, but when I replaced the Toshiba 5 disc player with the 4800, I couldn't believe the difference. The picture on my Mitsubishi HDTV was sharper and more akin to what I had seen in the video store when I bought it. I will never play cds, mp3s or anything like that on it. For sheer entertainment, you can't beat it.
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Summary: Great bang for the buck
Review: I don't pretend to be an expert, but when I replaced the Toshiba 5 disc player with the 4800, I couldn't believe the difference. The picture on my Mitsubishi HDTV was sharper and more akin to what I had seen in the video store when I bought it. I will never play cds, mp3s or anything like that on it. For sheer entertainment, you can't beat it.
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