Toshiba SD2900 DVD Player

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Toshiba SD2900	CDR CDRW	DVD-R DVD-RW DVD-R DL?	DVD+R DVD+RW DVD+R DL?	BD-R BD-RE BD-R DL	DivX JPG	MP3 WMA	$50	7.3/10 11 votes	View 14 reports (14152 views) Post report
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	tirasong from United States reported June 27, 2008: Read features: Price: Time used: Rating: CDR CDRW DVD-R DVD-RW? DVD-R DL? DVD+R? DVD+RW DVD+R DL? BD-R? BD-RE? BD-R DL? MP3? WMA? CVD? $50 over 1 year 5 of 10 DivX XviD Comments: When playing vcd or svcd; any movie will stop and reset to blank screen if the movie is recorded more than 1hr and ??min. Such crazy limitation didn't mention in their manual. Do anyone else have this problem? Any fixes or hacks to overcome this problem? Help help me resolve this problem.
	Dinko from Other reported December 09, 2003: Read features: Price: Time used: Rating: CDR? CDRW? DVD-R? DVD-RW? DVD-R DL? DVD+R? DVD+RW? DVD+R DL? BD-R? BD-RE? BD-R DL? MP3? WMA? CVD? $? N/A No rating Comments: Ok my bad for chapters on VCD. In order for this player to see the chapters you have to select an option for interactivity playback on VCD Easy which will make a VCD 2.0. Then of course burn the disc and SET the PBC to ON on the player and the chapters will work. Also it looks like the xVCD playback is also good this time, meaning the VCDs with lower bitrates, so you can fit one movie on one CD. I got 1:32 min movie to play all the way till the end as one track / roughly 40 chapters. SVCDs play but audio is .20 sec late (approximately). It doesn't look like half a second, it's really small. If you're watching a music video it's ok mostly, but for a movie it's annoying. I would not use SVCDs on this player. Dinks
	Caz-1 from Other reported October 02, 2003: Read features: Price: Time used: Rating: CDR CDRW DVD-R? DVD-RW? DVD-R DL? DVD+R DVD+RW DVD+R DL? BD-R? BD-RE? BD-R DL? MP3 WMA? CVD? $60 N/A 8 of 10 MP3 long filename MP3 ID3 TAG Comments: SO far this unit is doing fine, for the price you can't complain at all. I'm not really happy with the way the picture lloks on the screen but I'm still doing some comparations with my old and tired Philips 724. Dosen't have Progresive scan maybe thats the reason for poor quality picture. I read the review and some people say that this player didn't play SVCD's, I got a fair collection and I haven't find one that dosen't play yet. It maybe a software releated problem, I'm using DVD2SVCD to create my SVCD's.
	dink0 from Other reported September 14, 2003: Read features: Price: Time used: Rating: CDR CDRW? DVD-R? DVD-RW? DVD-R DL? DVD+R? DVD+RW? DVD+R DL? BD-R? BD-RE? BD-R DL? MP3? WMA? CVD? $? N/A 6 of 10 Comments: Ok something real important to mention. I encoded The Running Man to 950 kbps video and 128 audio so it can fit on one CD. ////// ++++ First of all it doesn't see chapters created by VCDEasy and also the movie will stop playing toward the end of the movie (it stops at about 70 mins which would be I think the standard playback of VCDs). +++++ ////// This dissapointed me BIG time. I like the player cause it plays DVD+R and DVD+RW (or whatever cuz I don't like using DVD Burner yet). Yet it also plays MP3 and WMA discs also but haven't experimented with this either. The Player also has audio lag on SVCDs. I tried the audio setup as mentioned above but that did not quite fix it. It is still noticable although much smaller then before. For my own VCDs and SVCDs I still use Philips DVD951 which does them with no problem (SVCDs though can't handle above 2300 kpbs video (about somewhere there)). Dink0
	Eric from Other reported June 21, 2003: Read features: Price: Time used: Rating: CDR CDRW DVD-R? DVD-RW? DVD-R DL? DVD+R? DVD+RW? DVD+R DL? BD-R? BD-RE? BD-R DL? MP3? WMA VBR CVD? $80 N/A 5 of 10 JPG/JPEG MP3 long filename MP3 ID3 TAG DivX MPEGISO Comments: I bought this player about a month ago from Best Buy because it was one of the few that would play just about all types of discs. Mostly I wanted something that would play VCD and SVCD. First, I have to say that this player works as advertised. It plays all the discs it says it will without any problems. I've played DVDs, VCDs and SVCDs (burned onto cheapo CDRs with Nero), and JPEGs burned onto CDR, MP3 discs, and WMA discs -- all with no problem. Strangely the next model up from this one (I forget the model #) wouldn't play SVCDs, even though it says it will. So I opted for this unit. BUT... I have to say that the picture quality is questionable. I noticed a lot of artifacting and just generally a lower quality video image than I had ever seen or expected in a DVD player. For example, color saturation was poor. Videos, even on the best DVDs, were flat and lifeless. Video is slightly grainy (just slightly), and lines were overly jittery. And, worst of all, the screen would flicker whenever the chapter changed, or there was a sudden change in the image (for example, a bright flash in a movie would cause this unit to hiccup for a second). The effect was almost identical to watching a film on a projector start slipping out of its track. I'm guessing this is due to lack of any 3:2 pulldown. Or, if this unit has 3:2 pulldown, then the processing just plain sucks. What really drove me mad was that I have a first generation player from Toshiba, the SD-2109, which plays DVDs with pristine image quality and no artifacting of any kind. I figured newer would be better. That is not the case. I finally had enough crap from this unit that I returned it an bought the new DVD726 from Philips. WOW! What a difference. For only $10-$15 more, the Philips unit is simply astonishing! Fast, smooth, crisp, eye-popping video quality, rich colors, and it even plays MPEGs burned on CDRW, no authoring needed. I swear, the video image is so darn good that it almost seems like it is floating out of the TV screen at times. Plus, the Philips unit is progressive scan! If you don't care much about image quality (which, if you're a reader of this site, then you probably do care), then I suppose the Toshiba SD-2900 is fine. But let me tell you, it's clearly crammed with subpar internal components and suffers from noticable picture quality degradations compared to even first generation DVD players. For the $75 this unit costs at Best Buy, you can do a whole lot better for only a few bucks more, literally. I DO NOT RECOMMEND this player at all! Take a pass and go with the Philips 724, 726 or 727. All of which are in the same price range as this Toshiba, and all of which are far superior in every way. And I'm a huge Toshiba fan too, so this is a painful review for me to write.
	van from Other reported May 29, 2003: Read features: Price: Time used: Rating: CDR? CDRW? DVD-R? DVD-RW? DVD-R DL? DVD+R DVD+RW? DVD+R DL? BD-R? BD-RE? BD-R DL? MP3? WMA? CVD? $? N/A No rating Comments: No comments
	Thanh from Other reported May 26, 2003: Read features: Price: Time used: Rating: CDR CDRW DVD-R? DVD-RW? DVD-R DL? DVD+R? DVD+RW? DVD+R DL? BD-R? BD-RE? BD-R DL? MP3 VBR 320kbit/s WMA VBR CVD? $70 N/A 8 of 10 JPG/JPEG Comments: The sound out of sync issues can be attributed to improper setup. You need to setup the audio to analog 2channel unless you're feeding it thru a receiver. It's in the instructions. I got this at Costco for $70, not bad for a quality player.
	Jake from Other reported May 25, 2003: Read features: Price: Time used: Rating: CDR CDRW DVD-R? DVD-RW? DVD-R DL? DVD+R? DVD+RW? DVD+R DL? BD-R? BD-RE? BD-R DL? MP3? WMA? CVD $70 N/A 9 of 10 Comments: Had Apex 1500 before, power supply died. Bought this today, tried first with nonstandard bitrate mpeg2 on cd-r (about 1.5 hours on 80 min, I think cvd resolution) that wouldn't play on apex first, worked fine on this. Tried standard vcd and svcds on generic and memorex cd-r's and rw's, much better quality (sharpness, fewer artifacts) than I was used to with apex. Only minor gripes are zoom doesn't work on svcds (no reason to disable it IMO), ff/rev in vcd mode is unpredictable (perhaps because of vbr svcds?), and some spent a relatively long time (a minute or two maybe) with "loading" on front panel led before playing. Looking forward to buring a range of bitrates and resolutions and seeing how it handles them. Also does WMA, MP3 and jpeg slideshows, but what doesn't these days?
	Bryce from Other reported May 17, 2003: Read features: Price: Time used: Rating: CDR CDRW DVD-R DVD-RW DVD-R DL? DVD+R? DVD+RW? DVD+R DL? BD-R? BD-RE? BD-R DL? MP3 CBR WMA CBR CVD $80 N/A 8 of 10 JPG/JPEG MP3 long filename DivX MPEGISO Comments: I burned a XVCD (The Ring on 1CD) and an XSVCD (A Bug's Life on 1CD), both turned out good. A tiny, tiny loss of video quality which is to be expected with X(S)VCDs. I tried to burn MPEGs directly onto a CD, but the player didn't recognize them. The media I've been using is Memorez CD-R (80min) and TDK CD-R (80min) and Memorez CD-RW (80min). I use GoldWave, TMPEG, and VCDEasy to do my sound ripping, encoding, and VCD burning.
	Darin from Other reported May 17, 2003: Read features: Price: Time used: Rating: CDR CDRW DVD-R DVD-RW DVD-R DL? DVD+R? DVD+RW? DVD+R DL? BD-R? BD-RE? BD-R DL? MP3 CBR WMA CBR CVD $80 N/A 8 of 10 JPG/JPEG MP3 long filename Comments: Great DVD Player for the price. I've been using generic CD-R/CD-RW I purchase from the internet. Also plays PAL (S)VCD, which in the manual it says it doesn't support.
	Phil from Other reported May 13, 2003: Read features: Price: Time used: Rating: CDR? CDRW? DVD-R? DVD-RW? DVD-R DL? DVD+R? Few DVD+RW DVD+R DL? BD-R? BD-RE? BD-R DL? MP3? WMA? CVD? $? N/A No rating Comments: This player plays my Phillips DVD+RW just fine.
	Tim from Other reported May 08, 2003: Read features: Price: Time used: Rating: CDR CDRW DVD-R? DVD-RW? DVD-R DL? DVD+R? DVD+RW? DVD+R DL? BD-R? BD-RE? BD-R DL? MP3? WMA? CVD $? N/A 5 of 10 miniDVD/cDVD JPG/JPEG MP3 long filename MPEGISO Comments: You'de think in two years Toshiba would have advanced a bit, but this latest model has the same look and menu system as my 2 year old SD-1700. Even the remote's the same. Only difference is it plays more types of media. Well for $79 I guess you can't complain, but I am. Cheaper models play more media type than this. Forget playing a CD-R full of WMA files. I have a CD-R that has 300 WMA files on it and it took this Toshiba "14 minutes" to load the CD and I'm not exaggerating. However picture quality is excellent but it's the only thing this player has going for it. VCD support is spotty at best. And forget playing any VCDs using the header trick. It WON'T play them. No SVCD support. There's really nothing keeping me from returning it to the store tommorrow.
	Steve from Other reported March 30, 2003: Read features: Price: Time used: Rating: CDR? CDRW? DVD-R DVD-RW DVD-R DL? DVD+R? DVD+RW? DVD+R DL? BD-R? BD-RE? BD-R DL? MP3? WMA? CVD? $80 N/A 9 of 10 JPG/JPEG Comments: Paid $79 today. My 4th stand-alone DVD player after a RCA and 2 Apex changers. The main purpose for this one is to play DVD-R that I burn on my Pioneer DVR105. What can I say? It worked great! Everything I threw at it, it played fine. DVD-R, DVD-RW, with brands like Optidisc, Princo, Maxell, and CompUSA generic ones. All played flawlessly. Also tried couple of VCDs which were fine. Next step is to try MP3 and JPEG. Very happy at this point.
	atrac from Other reported March 24, 2003: Read features: Price: Time used: Rating: CDR CDRW DVD-R DVD-RW? DVD-R DL? DVD+R? DVD+RW? DVD+R DL? BD-R? BD-RE? BD-R DL? MP3 CBR 320kbit/s WMA CBR CVD? $80 N/A 9 of 10 JPG/JPEG MP3 long filename MP3 ID3 TAG Comments: Excellent player! For the first time, Toshiba adds WMA and JPEG support! Moreover, SVCD is now supported, although it's far from perfect. The SVCD's that I have created with Nero all have audio out of sync issues. But I purchased this player knowing that SVCD would not be supported. To my surprise, the disc at least tried to play (I did get picture and sound). All previous attempts to play SVCD on any Toshiba DVD Player gave a "Disc Error" message. So at least this is a step in the right direction. Picture and sound of DVD's (as always with Toshiba) are incredible. Note: This DVD Player also supports CD-Text and the newer DVD-Text format. I'd say with these features and the addition of both JPEG and WMA makes this currently the most full featured DVD Player on the market (of course if it had SACD and DVD-Audio Support, that would make it more expensive). I paid $79.99 at The Good Guys.
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