Toshiba SD5109 DVD Player

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DVD Player	CDR CDRW	DVD-R DVD-RW	DVD+R DVD+RW	BD-R BD-RE	DivX JPG	MP3 WMA	Price	Rating Info	Reports Comments
Toshiba SD5109	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	$400	8.0/10 14 votes	View 18 reports (4897 views) Post report
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	Video formats: VCD SVCD DivX XviD JPG, Audio formats: MP3 DVD-MP3 MP3 long filename MP3 ID3 TAG WMA				Other features: 2 DVD Changer Progressive Scanning Google this player Region code free hack here Google this player.
	DVD Media comments for this DVD Player (click on the link to read the comments)
	1 CD-Recordable 1xDVD-R (REC001......) comments, 0 plays 1 dont play. 1 Fujifilm 2.4xDVD+R (RITEK...D01) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. 1 Panasonic 2xBD-R (MEI...T01) comments, 0 plays 1 dont play. 1 Princo 1xDVD-R (PRINCO......) comments, 0 plays 1 dont play. 1 Promedia Bulk 2xDVD-R (MXL RG01....) comments, 0 plays 1 dont play. Post your DVD Media comments here
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	Maxfield Stanton from Canada reported November 25, 2006: 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? $? over 1 year 8 of 10 JPG/JPEG DVD-JPG DVD-WMA DVD-MP3 MP3 long filename MP3 ID3 TAG DivX XviD MPEGISO DVD-MPEGISO Comments: Owned this player for quite some time. One of the first progressive scan players that came to the market and made in Japan too. DVD-Rs work on this player. However I've only tested DVD-Rs with Ritek, Prodisc and Yaiyo Yuden media codes. The big surprise for me was a Fujifilm branded DVD+R Double-Layer with media code RITEK-D01-01, burned by a Pioneer DVR-111D burner with firmware 1.29. It plays on the venerable Toshiba SD-5109!
	Greg from Other reported May 28, 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? $650 N/A 9 of 10 Comments: I've had this player for almost 3 years now, and it's been solid as a rock. Just tried it with Sony brand DVD-R media burned by a Pioneer DVR-105, and it worked fine.
	Joe Bob from Other reported March 01, 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: I borrowed a DVD+R FujiFilm disc from a friend. The movie played flawlessly. He created the disc on an HP DVD300i, but I'm not sure what compatibility bitsettings he used. I don't think he modified them, so whatever the default is should work.
	Hazama from Other reported February 21, 2003: Read features: Price: Time used: Rating: CDR Few 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? $400 N/A 9 of 10 JPG/JPEG DVD-MP3 MP3 long filename MP3 ID3 TAG MPEGISO Comments: Imation DVD-Rs work every time. I've never burnt a coaster... Unfortunately, the same discs cannot be played on the earlier version, Toshiba SD-3109 [almost the same player cosmetically, but not progressive scan, and doesn't have the 'psuedo remote' on the front panel] The picture quality progressively scanned hasn't held up as well as it should have over the years. I bought this player the day it hit market, and I'm feeling the woes now... Cheaper, BETTER players have flooded the progressive scan market... As far as I know, the Toshiba SD-5109 does NOT make use of 3:2 pulldown... that everyone seems to go ga-ga over these days... Anyway... that said... DVD-R -IS- possible!! Just make sure to get some Imation data DVD-R for general use version 2.0 discs and you'll be happy. =) Working CDRWs I know of are Memorex and HP... for audio cd as well as VCD.
	JP from Other reported February 12, 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? $700 N/A 8 of 10 Comments: I bought this player when it first hit the stores. This player is great for two disc sets. The remote is very user friendly and has features I have yet to play with on a DVD. I am a little disappointed that CD-r/w media does not work though. I guess I'll just have to connect my PC to my 51" TV and use it as an UltimateTV box without the cost of the services. Excluding the highspeed Internet of course.
	Mike Lindstrom from Other reported January 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: I burned a DVD-R (Cheap Imation DVD-R from Compusa) on my Sony DRU500A and it worked. Well, it worked when burning the authored files (AUDIO_TS, VIDEO_TS directories) using the Record Now software that comes with the drive but NOT with the latest Nero 5.5.100 software.
	Jim from Other reported January 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? WMA? CVD? $550 N/A 5 of 10 Comments: I have tested DVD+R and DVD+RW from Fuji on the player with no success. It always reports a "Disc Error". The burner is a Sony DRU-500A. The DVDs all play fine on my Toshiba DVD drive (PC).
	T Redden from Other reported January 17, 2003: Read features: Price: Time used: Rating: CDR? CDRW? Few 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: I was able to play a Samsung BeAll DVD-R 2x disc with no playback errors. No other DVD-R media I've tried seems to work with this player except Mitsui and that's bloody expensive. The test disc was using dvdxcopy-extracted content, burned at 2X with vob (UDF 1.02) on a Sony DRU-500A.
	Ray Jones from Other reported March 04, 2002: 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 8 of 10 Comments: Most DVD-R work. I have tried 3 different brands and they all played. Did have some picture artifacts with one brand of dvd-r (ESBuy.com). All other brands I have tried worked well. Burned all DVD-R with Prassi PrimoDVD. The DVD-RW (Memorex) that I tried did not work. Excellent picture quality progressive scan DVD player. I would rate it a 10 if it were compatible with all media.
	Tom Zudock from Other reported March 03, 2002: 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 10 of 10 Comments: Persistence has paid off. Please ignore my previous rating indicating that CD-RW would not work. Another user’s rating recommended Memores 1x-4x CD-RW. I acquired and experimented with the Memorex 1x-4x CD-RW media. Burned at 2x, it does work – not always – but generally it does work.
	Jeffrey Creem from Other reported February 03, 2002: 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 7 of 10 Comments: I burned and played a DVD+RW from an HP dvd 100i with compatibility mode set to 2 (normal mode 1 has been shown by others to not work).. With mode 2, the disc played with no problems at all.
	Tom Z from Other reported January 26, 2002: 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? $450 N/A 10 of 10 Comments: This DVD player looks great. I have a Toshiba Cinema Series HDTV which can use the progressive scan output. It really is excellent. I got it for $450 after the model was replaced with the SD6109. However, in spite of what other reports on this site say regarding being able to get some CD-R and CD-RW to work in this player, I have had little success. I have tried silver, gold, purple, CD-R and CD-RW, 4x-10x burning, you name it, nothing worked. But, my neighber gave me a CD-R he made, and it played fine. He didn't have anymore of the same type for us to try more. I can play the discs I burned on other DVD players, so I know I have the content correct (standard VCD). I think it is "pot luck." You might find some media that works, but don't count on all media working. If you don't plan on making VCDs, this is a great player.
	Anonymous from Other reported January 10, 2002: 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 8 of 10 Comments: I had my doubts that a DVD-R would play on this machine. However a Mitsui brand DVD-R with content created by DVDit PE worked like charm.
	Danny Hammons from Other reported December 16, 2001: 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 Comments: It's been a great player. But, I just tested DVD+RW, both Sony and HP media, and cannot get the player to recognize the discs.
	Michael R from Other reported June 05, 2001: 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 8 of 10 Comments: It seems to work well with Memorex 4x CDRW memorex ussually works well on toshiba dvd players. I tried a verbatim cdrw and it jumped around and the picture borke up a bit but it worked I recommend Memorex 4x CDRW
	Bill Griffith from Other reported May 04, 2001: 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? $450 N/A 8 of 10 Comments: The player is a progessive output model - my TV has progressive in...the picture is stunningly clear. The VCD issue is why I give it an 8 (instead of 10). It will read Silver CD-RWs, but, it doesn't seem to read them very well - perhaps its a bitrate thing that I need to play with. I was able to digitize a home movie and dump it to a CDRW and it played nice. Next, I dumped a whole MPG feature length movie from DIVX onto it - didn't do so well. Pic was there, but, unwatchable. All kinds of artifacts - sound was choppy. Hmmm. I may end up with a cheap $139 SAMPO to watch VCDs, and keep the SD5109 for real DVDs which is does a *fine* job with.
	PJ41 from Other reported January 22, 2001: 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 9 of 10 Comments: Mine DOES play burned VCD on CD-RW burned at 4x. It did NOT play the same movie burned on CD-R.
	Anonymous from Other reported For a long time agooo: 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: This unit will play 'original' VCD's, but will not play cdr or cdrw media at all.
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