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 Piece of Junk July 31, 2008
I've had this player for a year and this thing is getting on my nerves. It will periodically and randomly skip even though I'm playing a brand new DVD I bought earlier in the day. I rewind the scene back to make sure I don't have a defective disc and it will play fine through. So yes this is very random skipping for no reason at all. Multi-angle scenes are even worse since most, but not all, the time it skips so much it is not even watchable. Some DVDs will play perfect, others will not. The same goes with multi-angle scenes. Also this player has froze up on me a few times, but it is rare.
The nice features like HDMI upconvert and Divx playback are the only pros that keep me from giving this player 1 star. The picture quality is nice through HDMI but obviously not as good a blu-ray player (seen a PS3 in action so I can compare). But the random skipping, freezing, and the inability to play multi-angle scenes really outweighs any positive aspects this player may have. If these problems can be fixed in any easy manner, I would bump up my rating.
 Still going. July 18, 2008
It's been almost two years since I bought this item refurbished from woot.com and have been pleased ever since. The picture quality on my Toshiba widescreen SDTV has been excellent and playing divx/xvid files on CD-Rs or DVD-Rs even looks good. I never would have though that this would last this long.
Great Buy for the Money May 8, 2008
This DVD player is a great buy for the price. I have had it for about 3 years now and the only problem I can report is that it pauses for about 3-5 seconds randomly throughout a movie, this will typically happen about once an hour. When you take in to account that this DVD player is usually under $60 from a retail store, plays DIVX, plays burned DVD's/CD's, and is a Toshiba brand, it's a great deal! Plus I have HDMI support so I can hook it up to my HD TV easily.
The picture quality that the DVD player outputs is great as is the sound. I have never had a problem with a DVD or CD playing and the fact that it will play all my .AVI/.WMV files is GREAT! The player also has a title command that will display how much time your disc has left, how much has elapsed, and what track it's on. Another thing I think that Toshiba could have improved on was the fast forward and rewind commands. When you press FFW or RW it doesn't respond very fast to the remote.
If you need a DIVX/DVD player and you are working with under $100, I would definitely suggest this player!
Toshiba's weak link "Drive motor" December 16, 2007
Toshiba makes a quality product. I have been buying from the Toshiba line for 20+ years. The SD-4980 is a great DVD player for the price, I have had mine for about 8 months now and it see's a lot of use. This week the disk drive motor gave out. This will be 8th Toshiba in 7 years, all having suffered the same drive motor fate. Some have made it a year, most have not, but like I said they do see a lot of use. You will need to step up in price range for a longer lived unit. "You Get What You Pay For"
you get what you pay for... May 11, 2007
I've had this DVD player for over a year and have had the same problems other reviewers have listed. It skips, it doesn't play things I've burned one time and the next time it will, it crashes which requires you to unplug it each and every time. BUT...it plays DivX. That helps. - Spend your money on something better. Too many crashes too often and not enough good things to offset the bad including the price.
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