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Summary: more then 5 years of use
Review: This was the dvd player of its time. To love this player means you can't compare it to anything of today's standards. I've purchased this player when the price was over 300 and dvd was just making a hit and now, after more then 5 years (lost count) i still love it. I must say that during those 5 years or so, it did everything that i wanted it to do. I watch a lot of movies and have monthly membership and so my movie viewing is over 500 movies i think. Anyway, it plays fine and the zoom feature is realy great. It resembles the EZ view that a lot of dvd players now have. The only thing that i remember about this player is that it didn't have a lot of formats that it can play. For movies all you are stuck with are dvds. NO VCD, no dvd-r nor dvd+r. All it does is play dvds and the cd sound is moderate. I've never used the HDcd option so i can't say for sure. This year, I'm starting to notice that it is starting to show its wear but that is ok because it has exceeded my expectations already. I would say that it gives error messages 1 out of every 10 movies that I load up and it seems to get worst each month. The dual tray isn't used anymore because it has too many moving parts. Most new players gives you 1 or 5 trays but nothing in between. Even I knew from the start that the trays were problematic since it sometimes doen'st switch to other dvds but i never knew if that was the player or the dvd itself. This year, it has been pushed back from the living room to just a sleeping room due to other players with better format and options. Still, it's a good player but i think you will find multiple formats of dvd-r and dvd+r better in the newer players for a few more bucks. It will be better for the far future.
Rating: 
Summary: Great Performance
Review: I feel fortunate after reading some of the other owners misfortunes with their 3109's. At least mine gave me 2 good years of service before it started having problems with freezing up every other time I used it. Now that it just hit the 3 year mark I finally have a serious problem... It ate a dvd and the tray refused to open. I took it apart and pulled the dvd out but it still will not open the tray door. I can see the internal tray sliding with the cover off but I don't have a clue how to fix it. I definetly won't take it in for service since I will probably pay more for repairing it than a newer & higher quality unit will cost. It did have some great features, the zoom was a great feature especially with the letterbox movies. The slow play was also a great feature. If I had to do it all over again I would not have purchased the dual tray system. It was a headache with more moving parts that eventually broke down in 2-3 years forcing a costly repair or a purchase of a new player. Planned obsolence used to be the bread and butter of the automotive industry but it now appears the electronics industry, at least Toshiba, is capitalizing on this concept. I think I'll try another brand this next time around, perhaps one that will last longer than 3 years and comes with a backlit remote, but I still want one with the zoom and slow play features....
Rating: 
Summary: Works great... but broke in under two years
Review: This DVD player worked beautifully for the first year and a half. Then it started having errors when a disc was inserted... which I was able to live with, and get around after playing with it for a few minutes. Finally about a month ago it got the point where it would no longer recognize discs when I inserted them. It loaded the discs (mechanically speaking) just fine - but it could never seem to track to the start point of a disc. So I finally broke down and took it to Best Buy for repairs. The estimate came back as $300+ to repair a bad laser assembly. Only about $60 of that was labor, so the parts were unbelievably expensive!!! You can buy the unit new for less than that - which I do not recommend to anyone.
Rating:
Summary: It's too bad they stopped making this
Review: This is an awesome DVD player. I bought it after doing a lot of research online and truly understanding how the machine works. It came down to this one.
Why?
Zoom function: You can actually zoom in and look at minute detail on the movie and pan left and right on it. It also allows for "outside" angles -- meaning you can pan left or right while a movie is playing to see outside details from the center screen, if the director/dvd makers allow it (which I'm sure will be the next push in the technology). Speeds: The selection of scan through speeds is amazing -- all with startling clarity. Resolution: I scoffed that a DVD could produce THAT much better resolution and clarity of sound, but whoa man! This is amazing -- I truly am blown away with what kind of quality you get off this DVD player. Compatibility/ease of function: This DVD player is so incredibly easy to use, you basically just plug it in and play a movie.
Finally: The dual tray for DVD play. This player comes with two trays to put in two movies -- which you'll find with longer epics out there. It's simple to switch between on disc to the other, and it makes it awfully convenient for viewing pleasure.
They should really bring this product back. It's the best out there.
Rating:
Summary: A Great DVD!
Review: This is a great DVD! Its clarity of sound and picture is far superior to anything else I have seen. This SD-3109 is a must have!
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