Toshiba SD3750 Progressive-Scan DVD Player
Great DVD player - nice zoom - some mp3 limitations
Overall is the best DVD player I have tried. Considering the feature set and price and I am very pleased with this unit.<BR>Pros:<BR>- Excellent image quality (however I can't comment on the progressive scan feature - I purchased this for the other features).<br />- Nice menu navigation - accessable from the front panel as as well as from the remote.<br />- Easy to use remote.<br />- Nice zoom (I currently and will for some time stay with a 4:3 conventional TV) and I like to use the zoom the when watching the extreme widescreen format (I actually prefer the 16:9 high-definition viewing format that some DVD releases have).<BR>This player zooms the ultra widescreen first to close to 16:9 and then to close to fullscreen zoom.<BR>The first step (16:9) zoom has incredible zoom resoulution - almost as good as the original ultra-widescreen image.<BR>The only better zoom I've seen is the Toshiba 2300 NUON which I think has been discontinued although I think I saw a Samsung NUON unit that claims a good zoom. The Toshiba 2300 lacks other features though.<br />- Operates and feels like it has some quality.<br />Cons:<BR>- All DVD players that I tried have limited MP3 playback capability. I have a RioVolt portable that does a much better job of playing MP3 files than any home CD or DVD player I have seen.<br />- Toshiba 3750 does not support CD-RW MP3 disks on this unit and sure enough, my unit will not play CD-RW MP3 disks at all. Normal CD-R MP3 disks seem to work OK.<br />- MP3 playback is either sequential or full disk random and is user selectable. No directory only sequential or random.<br />- I had to burn my MP3 disks using the ISO level 1 (8 character music file names - no extensions) which is almost useless for me if I want to actually figure out the filename in the directory listing because I rip my MP3 files using a &quot;artist - song title&quot; filename format and there is no tag support so all I see in the Toshiba directory listing is artist~1,artist~2,artist~3for example (in contrast my RioVolt plays the extended format and supports tags - so the full artist name and song title is displayed in the directory listing).<br />In closing I think this is a great DVD player.<br />The MP3 feature is limited but still useful for playing a disk full of songs either sequentially or randomly.<BR>In general there is great potential for nice MP3 navigation with these players because the video screen is available for MP3 file navigation and selection - even playlists could be supported, but no one in the DVD player arena seems to be close to this yet.<br />The Video features and quality are great.