This player's forte' is its picture quality. Set up your display correctly and the Toshiba will do the rest.

The only weakness that I've found (And it's my fault)is the ability to control its menus without the remote. I've lost the remote a thousand times, a lot of universal remotes will not control Toshiba's set-up menus. Yes, you can still play DVDs and navigate the DVD menu, but you'll need a Toshiba remote to control the good stuff. KEEP YOUR REMOTE!

I bought the 6200 after (2) of my Sony players failed. The salesman at H.H. Gregg worked a deal with his manager to exchange the 6200 for my defective Sony's for no charge--I took it and ran! The 6200 has to be the best progressive scan player I have ever seen. Even with todays so called "progressive" players this player knocks their socks off after all these years. The quality of the converters and black level control and just the overall picture quality sets this apart from so many other players. Even without using the progressive scan, on a calibrated TV the colors, contrast, and black level are amazing.

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Pioneer's Progressive. Denon's Progressive. and Sony's Progressive.

Important Question: Anyone know if the Toshiba 6200 plays DVD-R and DVD-RW? Please email me the info... Bill

Great picture and sound.

The remote is anoying, the joystick is not precise, so I use my Ref30''s learning remote instead. Slow power up.

My wife bought me this as a gift for Christmas in 2000. I''ve been extremely pleased with this unit. It plays all of my CD-R, CD-RW and homemade VCDs with no problems. The picture quality is awesome. I ran a sound comparison between the SD6200 and my Adcom Class-A CD player, both of which are connected to my B&K Ref30 with a digital connection, so both use the Ref30''s DACs. Much to my surprise, the SD6200 sounded superior. I don''t understand this since theoretically, they both should be sending the same digital signal to the DACs, shouldn''t they sound identical?

Great picture and sound.

The remote is anoying, the joystick is not precise, so I use my Ref30''s learning remote instead. Slow power up.

My wife bought me this as a gift for Christmas in 2000. I''ve been extremely pleased with this unit. It plays all of my CD-R, CD-RW and homemade VCDs with no problems. The picture quality is awesome. I ran a sound comparison between the SD6200 and my Adcom Class-A CD player, both of which are connected to my B&K Ref30 with a digital connection, so both use the Ref30''s DACs. Much to my surprise, the SD6200 sounded superior. I don''t understand this since theoretically, they both should be sending the same digital signal to the DACs, shouldn''t they sound identical?

Stunning picture. Good remote. HDCD decoding. One button selection of Progressive vs. Interlaced. Make your own screen saver from any DVD frame.

No 24/96 output on digital out, carefully aim remote or no response, hard to get discs out of trays.

This is as great a picture as on any other player at any price, and I have auditioned some up to $15,000! The zoom feature lets you fill the screen as you see fit, although overdoing it loses clarity. Some (Pioneer) HD sets lock out the ability to change screen sized on progressive in, the Toshiba lets you switch to interlaced and then regain the screen sizing ability.

No finger depressions on both sides of the tray to grasp discs, so you learn to use your little finger in the center hole and thumb to remove - awkward but doable.

Memorizes where you stopped when you turn off power and returns without any special buttons.

Ability to adjust three memories for each output as to color, tint, black level, brightness etc. so the TV can be left alone. This allows matching the picture to what the TV gets from other sources easily.

Could be built better, although it seems to get the job done.

Since this is a fast moving technology that improves and changes every month, I would not spend more money than this and regret it down the road. But one now!

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Sony 7000, Sony DVD portable, Panasonic H1000

Picture quality, dual disk tray, nice remote

light weight, sounds like cheap CD player, high price, low availability

I purchased this unit to replace my 18 month old Sony 7000. I paired this unit with my Sony 61HS10, ISF calibrated HD ready TV, and Sony 9000ES proc. I immediately noticed a smoother and more colorful images. It was not like day & night compared to my Sony7000, I should say. Using video essential, I realized that the color setting was higher than it should be (a few clicks) and resolution right at 480 just like the Sony. So what was better about this player vs. the Sony. The moving diagonal lines did appear as a solid line and near zero motion artifacts. The Sony, however, held itself very well considering it is an interlaced unit. The Sony images showed a little jagged line but not to point of other interlaced players. On the audio side, the Toshiba, while plays all sort of formats, it has the "in your face" sound quality. It gave me the impression of a low cost CD player, say in $200~$300 range. It is sad that Toshiba retails a unit for a $1000, but cut corners from the audio. It just does not have the sweet & detailed sound of the Sony player. If you own good audio set up, you might be disappointed with sound quality of this player. In fact, I had bought the 5109 first and was returned for the same problem. I guess I will wait for a better player a little longer. I believe a product should be balanced piece of equipment. Perhaps I will get the Toshiba SD-9200.
Or just use the Sony with an external line doubler.

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Toshiba SD-5109, Sony DVP-S7000, Sony DVP-CX850D

the remote control is very easy to operate the. two DVD is grate to place to dvd at the same time
most of the time i rent two movies so it is kind nice future. Very quite hopefully durable (don't Have it for long time.)

non

It is fairly new machine the quality of the picture is incredible.
I got it for grate deal $480 MSRP $1199

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Great picture !!

Wish it was a carousel...

If you have any of the Toshiba HD sets, by all means get this player!! In regards to the discussion surrounding "progressive v.s. interlaced", while it's possible to get as good a picture by doing the 3:2 pulldown in the TV (or via an external converter), it will never look as good for the money. In other words at a given SNR (cost) it's much better to use the pure digital information that's only available to the DVD player. You could get the same or better result by buying the best cables, converters, etc, but for less that $600 you could have the 6200. That's hard to beat!!
The source material matters some, but almost anything will look noticeably better on a Toshiba TN50X81 if the SD-6200 is switched to progressive output....

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Sony

quality feel and great picture!

more programming on my universal remote

I bought the 6200 specifically because of reviews on this site.

I like to research online but buy locally so I can return immediately if necessary. Very happy with this unit even though I'm still using a 6 year old Mitsubishi 35" tv. I wanted to be ready to upgrade to HDTV once I decide on the right one. Would have done it at the same time but the Good Guys salesman talked me out of it!

Still, the picture is great even on SVHS input.

So, buy HDTV now, and which one? Or wait?

The usual...progressive scan, dual tray, component outs, backlit remote, and one-button switching between interlaced and progressive mode.

The "joy-stick" is not the most responsive. Sometimes you need to do something twice to get it to do things.

This is my first DVD player. I recently bought this and a 32" Flat Tau HDTV(ready) from Panasonic which is pretty awesome...nice picture even on cable signals and awesome DVD play-back. Slight "curl" on lower left edge of the picture that has a "warping" effect on horizontal objects. The Sony XBR 400 was nice but I read too many bad things about it.

I read the review below from "Vincent" about progressive and interlaced and I would have to agree with him...at least from what I see on the screen. The Panasonic TV uses progressive line doubling. I can't manually turn this thing off I don't think. It automatically detects 480p, 480i signals. It just seems like when I put the 6200 in interlaced mode it is much cleaner/sharper than the progressive mode. In progressive mode everything looks "softer" and in very dark scenes I can see some "noise" in the background...like the dark walls in the Matrix etc. I would imagine that the progressive mode would be best suited for those that have regular TV sets.

It could be that the TV's progressive scanning capabilities are better than the 6200's. I really don't know, since I am not a pro, but I plan to find out soon by calling Toshiba/Panasonic.

The zoom option works pretty well and I like the remote, except for the joystick. The chassis is kind of cheap and the unit is very light...But who cares anyways.

All in all, I think this is a good DVD player, especially for those that have TV's without line doublers. And for the price it is hard to beat although I would have shelled out more than $1000 for the bomb...like the new Sony ES series.

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