Toshiba SD2715 5-Disc DVD Player
Imagine how your friends and relatives would feel if you were able to bring the most intense and lifelike movie theater experience right into your living room. Imagine how they'd react to a picture that's sharper than laser disc and twice as sharp as standard VHS. Imagine how the value of your couch would increase if it were enveloped in Dolby Digital Surround Sound? This is what happens when you have Toshiba DVD.Toshiba includes performance-enhancement and convenience features throughout its entire DVD line, and the SD2715 5-disc carousel DVD player exemplifies the company's commitment to high-performance and high-value. For optimum audio performance, the SD2700 features coaxial and digital audio output permitting external decoding of Dolby Digital and DTS-encoded soundtracks.
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Toshiba SD2715 5-Disc DVD Player Reviews
If so, you might be disappointed. If you just want to play a CD, you'll hate waiting around for it to be ready to accept your next instruction. That means that you have to do it slow enough that the slow machine registers the hits, but fast enough that it doesn't think you're done all this without any indication from the machine of how many hits it has registered. (2) The random shuffle mode is poorly designed.
Huh. This DVD player can do that, but it's very hard to get the setting correctly because it involves hitting the random button three times. Huh Huh. That's convenient NOT. If you just hit the "random" button, it will play the tracks on one CD in random order and then stop. As a DVD player it works just fine, but I doubt most people are looking to shuffle between 5 DVDs. Now that doesn't sound difficult, but it has to register three hits.
If you are able to get it into the random2 setting, it plays the tracks on the first CD randomly and then the tracks on the next CD randomly. Like us, most people are looking for it to do double duty as the home's primary CD player as well. Hint: if you turn your TV on in DVD mode, it will actually tell you which random setting you are on. If you're like me, you want the random function to play the tracks on all CDs in the machine randomly. When our 5-disk CD player finally conked out, we replaced it with this slick DVD/CD player. Two big problems: (1) It is too slow in scanning CDs and responding to commands.
Having great experiences with a Toshiba SD2700 DVD player, I thought the SD2715 would make a great secondary unit.
It does take 10 seconds to warm up, but it's a nice, reliable player.
Within a day, it became my primary DVD player, and the 2700 was off to the basement TV.It has shown massive stuttering on "Black Hawk Down" - hoping it is a bad rental copy.
Allows for Disc Exchange while others are playing - a nice feature when you're looking for that rental DVD while watching another movie.
Tip: turn on the 3D Audio function for pronounced rear channel effects off a 5.1 disc - sounds great.Great player for the price.
I'll amend the review with an update.Plays VCDs recorded on the cheapest media known to man.
Hopefully an isolated event.
Plays "The Matrix" with no problems - usually a litmus test for cheap decoders in cheap players.
Gives off a nice picture.
Bottom line: is in-expensive and a great buy for a 5 disc changer. audio:. Cons: a tad slow to response and motor makes slight noise while changing discs. video:. 5.1 analog, digital coax, optical. mp3: displays directory with filenames of upto 12 characters only.
The sound and picture quality after adjusting setting (audio set to stream/pcm)sounded and looked great.dvd contains 2x,4x,16x,100x speed for fast forward and reverse, slow motion can go from ½ to 1/16 speed, other features included are zoom, multi-language sub-titles, multi-camera angle view. vcd 2x, 4x. Pros: plays dvd, dvd-r, cd, mp3, cdr, vcd; price, loaded with features; excellent dvd sound and picture quality. (mp3 limitation: should be recorded in iso-9660 format and recording should start from track 1 itself).I was evaluating 2 other players during the same time namely pioneer dv-c503 and panasonic dvd-cv51, I chose this player over panasonic for price and other it does not have digital coax socket, pioneer does not play mp3 / no zoom feature. Package contains fairly decent remote, a set of AAA batteries, a composite video and analog audio cable, good user-manual and a separate write-up mp3 playback and recording.Recommended: highly.Setup is easy and straight forward with the setup button on remote.Styling: player comes in black finish, looks plain, has lots of button on front panel such as on/off, open/close, disc ex-change during play, disc skip, stop, pause, ff /reverse. composite, s-video and component video (rear panel contains switch to change between s-video and component).since i did not have digital audio cable nor s-video cable at hand, I used video coax cable to connect digital coax audio to my pioneer vsx-d409 dolby digital/dts receiver and used composite connection for video to my sharp 32' tv.
this can be viewed only when you tv set is on. Displays the disc numbers for inserted disc and blinks when it is playing.Connections:.
the toshiba sd2715 5 disc dvd player, is the best player to date for a family with a 5 year old who is very adept at electronics. I would give this player a 10 of 10.My son continues to push this unit to the edge with not only sticky fingers but scratched discs and all do great. It takes a max of 10 - 20 seconds tyo load a dvd. Personally i would rather have a 5 to 20 sec wait rather than have to clean or skip a disc.
Such a waste of money considering I paid [what I paid] for this unit.
The repair shop informed me the warranty only covers part, so I had to pay.
It's working great, way more features than Toshiba or any other brands for about 1/3 the cost.
Because I rarely used this unit, the 90day warranty had expired.
more and brought an APEX three disk carousel model(AD5131),.
I had only played about 10 hours of DVD when it stopped playing VCD format disks.
I would definitely AVOID Toshibas from now on.
After some consideration, I decided to spend.
for labor.
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