Toshiba SD-1600 DVD Player
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU TOSHIBA !!
First DVD player for me, but as always, before purchasing I have ready many reviews all over the web before purchasing....Read all the good reviews here, then multiply by ten, this is a top notch player for the money. Don't like letterbox? Hit the zoom button once or twice to make the picture fill your screen!! This player also has a pretty cool feature called a/b repeat, in which you hit the button once where you want to mark the beginning spot, then again where you want to mark the ending spot, and the player will repeat this scene that YOU marked in a continuing loop....Can you say American Pie LOL. The best features that I can think of off the top of my head, are: the zoom feature, repeat feature, and the black level enhancement feature. The latter is an UNBELIEVABLE feature. As your watching a movie, and you turn the black level enhancement on, it really improves the picture, by giving you blacker than black images, instead of that little bit of white haze over black objects on screen like with some players. Some people complain about how slow the disc draw opens up....Give me a break people 1.5 seconds it too long to wait to put a disc in?? If time is that precious to you, I cant see you sitting down for 2 hours to watch a DVD, if you cant wait 1.5 seconds to get the disc in. Another complaint that I hear is that you can hear the motor running while watching movies. I have mine behind glass, so I cant really be much help there, but I don't hear a thing. Yet again, if your listening to the TV that low whats the sence of watching the movie LOL. Anyway, I am very picky, and I love this player. I DID notice that with dual layer discs, the player sometimes pauses for a half second while transversing to the second part, but being a first time DVD player owner I am not sure if this is common in all players, nonetheless it isnt a major annoyance. Thanks Toshiba!!