Died after one year of light use (disk error - wouldn't read disks). Try another vendor.

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Slow and bulky by today's standards

I agree with all the bad review this product has received. I have hardly used it in over 6 months and it will not longer play any CD or DVD. I cannot believe that the Toshiba has made this poor quality product and pretty disgusted by its performance.

5 disc changer, protective plan wasnt all that exspensive

Not a SONY, disc errors galore, skipping, freezing, turns off when if gets sleepy (not when you get sleepy), take a guess

I'm pissed and I've lost track as to how many problems I've with this POS. Bought my 1st dvd playe oct 2001 and it last til about feb., after a month of dicking around done by bestbuy (where they claimed to have fixed my problems and I subsequently brought it back to them twice) they gave me a new system same model. It last about six month before it needed an adjustment or something. 5 or 6 monthes passed and now I sit here in the same position, wanting a Sony. This thing is a POS. I get disc error once a night and the tray opens... that's with the new DVD I brought home that night mind you. And if by some act of God the disc picks up and plays, it'll be choppy. Freeze here or there, stops for up to 10 secs at a time and or just jumps to the next scene and leaves you wondering if Silent Bob actually sucks Jay's dick in J&SBSB. Oh and if you do decide to purchase this POS, buy the plan on it, it'll be used time after time. And t hesae monkeys at BestBuy, my little cousins in elementry school could do what they're doing. Just cause these dicksa can set the clock on a vcr doesn't mean they should be a tech. Only reason it got a 2 star was we got some about 6 monthes out of the 1st system and nearly a yr out of the second, but then again that's not counting the time BestBuy and/or Toshiba had MY DVD player.

Good paperweight.

Cannot play DVD's, duh.

It died after 6 months of use, and very little use at that. We probably only watched 10-15 DVD's total in the time we owned it. Now it does not recognize disks and the door just keeps opening and shutting. It won't recognize audio disks either. This item is a total piece of crap. Toshiba should be ashamed of themselves. I called Toshiba's tech support and they suggested unplugging the unit for an hour and then trying again. Same problem. I'm sure Toshiba is aware of the problems with this unit but they choose to do nothing about it.

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My kid's Sony Playstation does a better job playing DVD's

Picture, sound and price, Have seen as low as $129 of late.

Slow on/off, does not decode all disks without default settings manipulation, small remote, does not recognize disks added after unit turned on, loud, and all other weekenesses noted in prior reviews.

Read all these reviews carefully...ESPECIALLY the complaints, indeed they are all true. If you are an advid DVDer you will not be happy with this model. If you are replacing a 5 CD player and want a DVD player but only have room for one unit (my situation) and you can pick this unit up for $129 at Sams Club or BJs it might be worth it. It does offer many features but it is very slow in starting up and reading disks, does not play all disks without adjusting settings (Atlantis did not initially work and I am now having trouble with the Extras on: The Wizard of Oz) but does offer excellent picture and sound when functioning. One major annoyance... if you have the unit on and multiple disks in and add another it will never recognize the 4th disk unless you shut the thing off then turn it back on. By the way, just turning the thing on takes forever. My first unit had loose parts in it and did not work....second unit is fine. It was a gift supposedly well rated in CR. Still Toshiba should be a bit ashamed for this inferior peice of equipment....unless all Multi disk DVD players are this slow, can not decode all disks, need to be powered off/on occasionally and have poorly laid out incredibly small non-universal remotes.

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Poor component quality/design. System has pathetic MTBF.

I hate to say this, Toshiba, but like the previous reviewers have discovered before me, the SD-2705 is a POS. After just under a year of movie playback, my unit flipped over, waved it's pathetic little rubber feet in the air, and died on me. I will not purchase Toshiba products in the future.

Multi-disk fibre optic output DTS and Dolby Digital output

Improper bitstream switching Extremely slow power on cycle

Do not buy a Toshiba DVD player. I am using the fibre optic audio output to connect to my Yamaha HTR-5460 Amp (which is great), and it works great while you are watching the movie. Just don't stop it or try to navigate menus without muting your receiver. The fibre optic output does not properly switch between dolby digital and stream output. So my receiver tries to decode Dolby when it shouldn't be. A friend has the same receiver I do, and his Panasonic and JVC DVD players don't cause this problem. I tested his Panasonic on my receiver...you guessed it...my receiver is fine. If you don't have a dolby/dts receiver, it'll work fine. But if you do...beware.

Sound is good

Mechanical mayhem. Problems after problems.

VERY, VERY DISAPPOINTED! The machine worked great for 6 months. I am having layer reading problems, the optical laser broke, replaced and broke again. My wife is very upset that we didn't buy the samsung at Walmart for $99. We both expected more. We will not buy Toshiba again.

Picture quality with component cables are the way to go.

Freezes too much, at least 2-3 seconds. Remote control too small, enter button too small.

Very good picture. Zoom is nice to have, but who wants to look at something so close. The picture quality suffers when you zoom it too much. Remote is too small. The enter button is too small. Will wear out too quickly.

picture/sound.

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Follow up to earlier review. After 6 months of fairly active use, I have to say, I''''m a little dissapointed in Toshiba. I love the 1209 I have, but this one has some kind of problem with about every second disc. From layering problems (it''''ll pause and skip 1-3 minutes ahead in the movie), to subtitles (come on randomly), to having to set the language to "english" to play Atlantis. The picture and sound is outstanding, though. Whaddya want for uunder $200?