Toshiba SD2805 5-Disc Carousel DVD and CD Player
Could have been a lot better.
First off, this player is a good deal at this price. The DVD player ranks very high in audio/video quality and is compatible with many types of disc formats. But it lacks several simple features that would have made it great. There is no direct access to each disc on the remote. So if you want to go from disc 1 to disc 5, you have to press \\"disc skip\\" on the remote four times. This wouldn't be bad, but as you skip from disc to disc, the player has to read each disc before you can skip to the next one. <br />The remote is too small. It has a good layout that is easy to use, but the buttons are too close together. The on-screen displays are also disappointing. I prefer text-based displays instead of the icon-based displays the the SD-2805 uses. These displays are sometimes hard to read. My biggest problem with the on-screen display is that it doesn't show you the total time or time remaining of the DVD your are watching. It only displays the elapsed time, so you don't know if there is 2 minutes or 45 minutes left in the program. I find this very annoying escpecially when watching the extras on dvds.