Toshiba SD3750 Progressive-Scan DVD Player
Video OK, MP3 a total miss
On paper this sounds like a great DVD. I was looking to upgrade my current DVD and also a unit for my Dad to go with his HD TV.<br />I kept the one for my dad but returned mine. The picture's fine and it operates OK as a DVD player.<br />My complaints:<BR>Lacking 5.2 audio outputs (guess i should have read the specs better). But where this baby really misses is MP3 playback They advertise it. But not all the files were listed. The others were all listed twice. Only 8 characters were listed on the screen display it could not use the ID info on the disc. But absolutely worst of all the files it did manage to find to play were full of clicks and sprts and whoops and other weird artifacts. Definately lo-fi minus. I have a Rio Volt and its simply fantastic at finding and playing files - of course it took until early last year B4 firmware upgrades made it work right - but the SD3750 can't even take firmware upgrades off the CD-ROM. No hope at all. Certainly a mega-corp like Toshiba (and other brands as well!) should be able to hire decent programmer/engineers to make the MP3 work right.(my daugther's P********c brand can't read the directory right either but at least the songs it finds it plays w/o artifacts) Maybe the market staff for DVDs isn't into MP3 at all...  Best take a sample MP3 disk to the store if this is omportant to you.