Toshiba SD2715 5-Disc DVD Player
Great Buy !!!
Pros: plays dvd, dvd-r, cd, mp3, cdr, vcd; price, loaded with features; excellent dvd sound and picture quality.<BR>Cons: a tad slow to response and motor makes slight noise while changing discs.<BR>Bottom line: is in-expensive and a great buy for a 5 disc changer. Package contains fairly decent remote, a set of AAA batteries, a composite video and analog audio cable, good user-manual and a separate write-up mp3 playback and recording.<br />Recommended: highly.<br />Setup is easy and straight forward with the setup button on remote.<br />Styling: player comes in black finish, looks plain, has lots of button on front panel such as on/off, open/close, disc ex-change during play, disc skip, stop, pause, ff /reverse. Displays the disc numbers for inserted disc and blinks when it is playing.<br />Connections:<BR>audio:<BR> 5.1 analog, digital coax, optical.<BR>video:<BR> composite, s-video and component video (rear panel contains switch to change between s-video and component).<br />since i did not have digital audio cable nor s-video cable at hand, I used video coax cable to connect digital coax audio to my pioneer vsx-d409 dolby digital/dts receiver and used composite connection for video to my sharp 32' tv. The sound and picture quality after adjusting setting (audio set to stream/pcm)sounded and looked great.<br />dvd contains 2x,4x,16x,100x speed for fast forward and reverse, slow motion can go from ½ to 1/16 speed, other features included are zoom, multi-language sub-titles, multi-camera angle view<BR>vcd 2x, 4x.<BR>mp3: displays directory with filenames of upto 12 characters only. this can be viewed only when you tv set is on. (mp3 limitation: should be recorded in iso-9660 format and recording should start from track 1 itself).<br />I was evaluating 2 other players during the same time namely pioneer dv-c503 and panasonic dvd-cv51, I chose this player over panasonic for price and other it does not have digital coax socket, pioneer does not play mp3 / no zoom feature....