Toshiba SD2805 5-Disc Carousel DVD and CD Player
Good Performance, Low intelligence
Toshiba did a decent job of providing a good DAC for their video and digital audio options for excellent sound. However, it lacks the intelligence that I think should be standard for a device like this. For instance, it does not seem to have continuous play (or at least I can't find a way to enable it). When playing CDs, it stops after each disc and you have to manually tell it to play the next one. duh. So, you press the &quot;Skip Disc&quot; button on the remote and it goes to the next disc (somewhat slowly) and then stops again. duh. You then have to press play to get it to go. Repeat the above after each CD. It's smart enough to know that it's a CD and not a DVD, but not smart enough to know that you want it to keep going. The only way I could find around this is to do a Program play and specify each disc. This is a pain to do every time I want to just dump 5 CDs in, press play and have music for ~4 hours. My current CD changer which is 5 years old can do this, why can't the SD2805?<br />From what I can tell after running it through the ringer for three days, it plays DVDs quite well. However, the purpose of this machine is to be multi-function device and be able to be a CD changer which IMO it fails at. Why else would you have the capability to hold 5 discs and be able to play CDs and MP3s?