Toshiba SD-4980 DVD Player with HDMI and DivX Playback
Toshiba HDMI Trouble
I bought this Toshiba SD-4980 to go with a new HD-ILA JVC tv that has an HDMI input.  I found the picture quality using HDMI input to be very good comapred to my RCA progressive scan DVD player and was impressed with the improvement in picture using the upconversion feature.   <br /> <br />However I returned the first unit because it would randomly pause for a few seconds during the middle of playback, not related to the DVD being played (it would freeze in different places on the same DVD). I returned the first unit and tried a second unit only to find that it did the same thing so it was also returned. <br /> <br />I liked this DVD player but it is very distracting for the movie to stop suddenly and so sadly like one of the previous reviewers I will not be using this unit until Toshiba fixes the issue.