Toshiba SD-3950 Progressive Scan DVD Player

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Summary: DOA !
Review: My Toshiba SD-3950 was DOA out of the box. Bought at Fry's Electronics (not Amazon). In the process of working with Toshiba for a replacement unit. It's a hassle. Beware.

Rating:
Summary: Happy with it
Review: I purchased SD-3950 from Amazon.com about 5 months ago and I used it with a new Sony HD TV set. It was very easy to setup and operate. So far no problem at all. It can read minor damaged DVDs that my other DVD player can't read. The picture quality is good but I have no chance to compare with other progressive scan DVD player yet. The olny thing I don't like is when you use fast forward, it doesn't show you a smooth fast forward, but it jumps forward. Overall, it is a cheap DVD player (I paid for under $40 after rebate) with pretty good quality for me.

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Summary: This is a very good CD player
Review: It works fine as a DVD player, no complaints. As a CD player, it's been a very nice surprise, indeed. The sound quality is substantially better (using the analog output of the Toshiba 3950) with this cheap DVD player than I get running a digital feed directly into my Harman Kardon receiver. There are some significant ergonomic issues with using it as a CD player, including the fact that the display doesn't show the track number. I just hope that I don't have the breakdown problems that some other folks seem to be having.

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Summary: Bad DVD
Review: I purchased this DVD back in Aug. I moved in Oct that is when I started using it. It stopped working in Dec! I would put a store bought movie in and my screen would read unable to read disk. I bought this beacause of the name brand has a good reputation but I feel as if I would have been better off buying an off name brand.

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Summary: Cheap? No way -- this is the best value out there
Review: I purchased this several months ago from Amazon after reading all the reviews -- including the ones that complained of pixellation and out-of-box failure. So I ordered this inexpensive unit with some reserve, and saved the box for months, thinking I might have to send it back.

But no. What I've found instead is that it reliably produces a stunningly-sharp, hi-def picture, and sends lovely, pure, unadulterated sound through to my surround receiver (Yamaha HTR-5650). I've got it hooked to a Toshiba 42" widescreen HD-ready RPTV (42H83), with Monster component video cables, and I feed it a fairly fatty diet of 3-4 DVDs every week. Not a pixel or a plip to be seen.

Of course, DVDs of movies made pre-HD-era won't look as good. Even this super-machine can't remove the grain from older discs.

The remote is a bit cheesy, not worthy of the sleek player, and the buttons can be inscrutable in the dim light of a home-theatre room. But that's a small quibble, considering the great value of this machine.

I purchased this when my MUCH-more-expensive Sony 5-disc DVD player died after just 14 months. The Sony will still play CDs, but I use it only as a "jukebox" when hosting dinner parties. When I want to play a single CD or CD-R, whether 80s pop, Linken Park, Joni Mitchell, a Mozart aria, or carpet-rumbling classical pipe-organ music, this Toshiba unit leaves my Sony whimpering in tail-dragging shame.

This is an amazing value, an absolute must-buy. Already have a DVD player in your family room? Buy this for your bedroom...and switch them when you get the chance.

Rating:
Summary: Cheap?
Review: As cheap as this player is it holds it's own with the more expensive ones! I have another Toshiba that wasnt bad and a Panasonic which was VERY expensive and this one is VERY well made! The features are great and I have had NO problems with it. Yes the remote needs to be aimed at the player but HOW LAZY are people to gripe about this? What you can't AIM it at the player? The player is a Diamond in the rough....You can't go wrong with Toshiba!

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Summary: Easy, inexpensive, does the job.
Review: After reading the reviews, some of which were pretty negative, I still bought the Toshiba Sd3950...hey, it was in my budget. It hooked up immediately (even for a non-technophile), started playing beautifully. I like my electronics simple to operate and work without problems. This DVD player has given me all that. No sound problems, no problems with the remote, no problems period. My experience has been A-OK and I would buy this item again.

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Summary: Happy with it
Review: I Just read some reviews in professional audio forum, and many of them said this player can provide the HI-FI stander music source, and even marked this one as the best choice of CD resorce under the $600. I bought one, and found it is true it can produce very clean music.
However, when I tried DVD, the color was diffused. I just called AMAZON to make the replacement. after several days waiting, I got my second 3950, the audio is even better than the first one. Again putting the dvd in, it finally give the DVD quality color, however 20 minutes later, the same problem of color diffussing was appearing.
I dont have more time and energy to change this machine.
Anyhow, I still give this machine for 4 star, because I just bought it as the CD-player, and its audio along do deserve its price.

Rating:
Summary: Great Unit at a Great Price!
Review: This unit is my 3rd Toshiba DVD Player and definitely the best one thus far. Easy set-up, great remote and crystal clear picture.

At this price, why buy anything else?