Toshiba SD2805 5-Disc Carousel DVD and CD Player
Just fine and dandy
My wife and I live in the home entertainment Stone Age, and it was only this week that we finally fired up our first DVD player - the Toshiba SD-2805.<br />We purchased this device for a pittance on the website that shall remain anonymous, except that it's also a river.(Huh? Mississippi? Danube? Perhaps Mekong?) Anyway, the player meets all expectations.<br />I'm mechanically adept as a brick. I mean, I need coaching on how to hammer a nail. But the SD-2805 was amazingly simple to get up and running. The standard audio and video connections that came in the box were perfect for our older 27-inch TV. I barely needed the more than adequate owner's manual. (Now, when we get that $6K, 42-inch, HDTV flat screen with the Blast-Out-the-Neighbors sound system, we'll need more cables. But that's then, and this is now.) And when I started up the only DVD in my possession, CAPTAIN CORELLI'S MANDOLIN, Pen&eacute;lope Cruz was more of a Babe than I remembered (due to the excellent quality of the picture). I can even zoom in to ogle!<br />The TOSHIBA SD-2805 will do for us everything we expect of a DVD player at this time. Sure, it'll ostensibly play audio CDs, but I really don't care since I generally only listen to those on my auto's Bose system, and it would be awkward to connect the car speakers into the SD-2805 anyway. (Boy, I'd need miles and miles of wire just for the daily trip to work!) And I've seen the criticism that the buttons on the remote are too small. While that observation is perhaps legit, just hire a savvy 5-year old to punch them for you while you occupy your hands with the beer and chips.<br />For the price, this new toy represents excellent value.