Toshiba SD-5970 DVD Player with HDMI
Dead on Arrival (almost)
I bought the SD-5970 two months ago to replace a very, very reliable Panasonic DVD player (five years old) that I \\"fried\\" by carelessly placing it on top of a receiver.  As related in other reviews, the remote (with awkwardly placed buttons) is sluggish to the point of thinking the batteries are perpetualy dead.  I lived with that.  Then, after a month, DVDs that used to play no longer play in the machine, displaying \\"BAD.\\"  Indeed, nothing plays. \\"Setup\\" also no longer works.  Pair this with the class action lawsuit against Toshiba for my laptop computer ... and I caution consumers against buying any of their products.  I expected more from a Japanese electronics company.  <br />