Toshiba SD-3990 Progressive Scan DVD Player
The SD-3990 DVD player features ColorStream Pro Progressive Scan Component Video Outputs for enhanced color purity and image detail. DivX Home Theater Certified allows playback of DivX, AVI and MPEG4 (.ASF) compressed files downloaded from the internet from a personal computer and stored on a CD-R/RW. The convenient JPEG Photo Viewer enables users to seamlessly display digital photographs from disc onto their televisions. Play back MP3 and WMA files effortlessly from compatible CD-R and CD-RW discs. Virtual Surround Sound recreates dynamic multi channel surround sound from two stereo speakers.
Nicely affordable yet packed full of powerful video and audio playback features, the Toshiba SD-3990 single-disc, progressive scan DVD player has a stylishly silver, super-slim profile that measures just 1.65 inches high. It's also compatible with a wide variety of disc and digital file formats, including DVD-R/RW, CD-R/RW, and VCD discs as well as MP3, WMA, and JPEG (Kodak Picture and FujiColor CDs) content burned to disc. It's also DivX Home Theater Certified, meaning that it's compatible with video burned to disc using both the DivX video format. The SD-3990 performs 3:2 pulldown detection and reversal, too--a handy feature for watching progressive-scan movie programs in their native 24-frame format. To adapt 24 frames-per-second movies to 30 fps video, frames in the original movie must be duplicated; 3:2 pulldown digitally corrects this duplication by removing the redundant information to display a frame-accurate picture. With the JPEG Viewer, you can easily display your favorite digital photos and create custom slideshows with a few simple clicks of the player's remote control. The interactive Digital Picture Zoom feature allows you to select an area of the video from a DVD and magnify it. Other DVD playback features include fast scan, slow motion, multi-angle selection, multi-subtitle selection, and parental lock. You get vivid, realistic sound, thanks to Toshiba's 24-bit/192 kHz pulse code modulation (PCM) audio processor. PCM audio translates digital signals from your DVDs and CDs into warmer, natural sound. The DVD player offers Dolby Digital and DTS decoding, and you can connect to a multi-channel home theater surround sound system via the coaxial digital audio output. It also produces 3D virtual surround sound from two speakers. It features the following video and audio connections: - Composite A/V: 1
- S-Video: 1
- Component Video: 1
- Digital audio: 1 coaxial
Tech Talk
DivX is a compressed digital video format (like MP3) that's based on the MPEG-4 video compression standard. It can reduce the video from a DVD (MPEG-2) to around 10 percent of its original size while still retaining good video and audio quality, enabling you to store several two-hour length movies on burned DVD media. Component video (also called Y/Pb/Pr) features a three-jack video input, which provides separate connections for luminance (Y), blue color difference (PB) and red color difference (PR). This results in increased bandwidth for color information, resulting in a more accurate picture with clearer color reproduction and less bleeding than you would get with S-Video or composite (RCA yellow video plug) connections. You will need a separate RCA left/right audio cable for sound. What's in the Box
Single-disc DVD player, remote control (with batteries), printed operating instructions
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Toshiba SD-3990 Progressive Scan DVD Player Reviews
After about 6 months of infrequest use, it now will not load standard store-purchased DVD's or the DivX disks that worked fine a few months ago. This unit convinced me not to buy Toshiba ever again. The purchase price of this unit new should give me more than a total of 10 - 15 hours of playing time. Just prior to this, it would play, but hang-up abould 1/2 of the way through. It displays "Loading." until the disk is ejected or the unit turned off. I feel I was ripped off.
My DiVx DVDs play flawlessly. This player has played everything I have thrown in it, including downloaded.AVI files and PAL formatted DVDs from Europe. I have owned this player for almost 2 years and have been very satisfied. Either way, I love this thing. By reading these reviews, I am wondering if I got the only good one Toshiba made. Many other reviewers seem to have had a ton of problems.
I used to think that Toshiba was that leader brand in "home entertainment" systems but not anymore. This DVD player was a tease, it looked perfect, simple and user friendly, but just the fact that so many people are having the same issue is an offense to all customers. I will stay loyal to other brands such as Sony, Panasonic, Samsung, Sharp or LG as a last resource. Please don't buy this one, you want something that will last forever and will not just break all of the sudden even if you don't use it. Sorry if I am harsh but enough is enough. Ok, I barely watch DVDs at home, however it is always nice to have a DVD player to suite your entertainment needs every once in a while. One DVD player braking is understandable but when you browse in Google or just in this site and find out that many people are going through the same hassle, it says that quality control did not do their job.
I opened it up and unplugged things and replugged them (yes, I did the ribbon thing that worked for some people) but nothing fixed it, not even shaking it or hitting it. I received this as a gift about 14 months ago and earlier this week I suddenly got the "No Disc" message everyone else seems to get. I searched every corner of the internet for a solution. How about a recall. Because of this, I will never buy Toshiba.
The DVD player reads no disc everytime i insert a disc. Seems as if this was a common problem. If you call customer service they will replace it with the SD 4000. The DVD player broke after one use.
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