Toshiba SD-3950 Progressive Scan DVD Player
Great player
Sunday, December 14, 2003<BR>I have a HD front projector with an 8'screen.  It is easy to separate DVD players that play good or not on this big screen and I must say I do see every little fault that you would not see on a small television.  My daughter always says to me \\"Dad, you're not watching the movies you're watching the pixels\\".<BR>At any rate I've tried the JVC XV-N44SL and I must say it's terrible for NO player should stutter on panning and this applies to the XV-N55 as reported by Zdnet review. Same problem indicating this is a common problem to most JVC players.  Simply unacceptable in this day and age.<BR>I've also returned the Sony  725P for my projector would do a  better de-interlacing than this player. So I went for a more expensive player and bought the Yamaha 5650. The initial impression was very good however the progressive scan in darker movies was the one that killed the feeling of an excellent player. No matter how I've tried to adjust the darker scenes, due to the fact there is no black level expansion the picture was just too soft and washed out. The remote is very small and cramped; I kept hitting the wrong buttons all the time. For a more expensive player this clearly is not good.  So I've bought my last player the Toshiba SD-3950 and wow, for less than halve the price of Yamaha, I now have 3:2 pull down, black level expansion and perfect dark scenes to boot.  Now some people might say it has the chroma bug (maybe yes and maybe no I just didn't test it yet), it's only a flag reader or something like that, but I say my eyes don't lie,<BR> I like what I see and this is the best so far. I give it  5 stars for the remote is excellent, picture quality awesome and a very low price.