Toshiba SD2805 5-Disc Carousel DVD and CD Player
Not the best choice
I used to be a Toshiba fanatic, but this is the third disappointing Toshiba product I've purchased over the past 3 years. I'm not buying any more. <br />Overall, this is a good DVD player. It plays DVDs, DVD-R, CD-R, CD-RW, JPEG (pictures), and MP3. However, it will not play MP3s from CD-RW, and there is NO - I repeat, NO - random playback feature for MP3s. Imagine that, folks. Oh, also, you can only put 199 MP3s or JPEGs on a disk; the player simply won't recognize more than that. <br />So, with 5 disc slots, that's about 1000 songs you can put into this player at once (on MP3), but you cannot play them back in random order. This quite literally defeats the entire purpose of having MP3s to begin with. Don't even bother converting anything to MP3, because you'll never listen to more than a few hours at once, which means that you'll never hear most of your songs unless you manually start playback at random places. <br />This is simply [wrong]. <br />The remote is typical Toshiba fare, which means it looks as if it were designed and built in North Korea. <br />Connectivity is good. Optical digital audio out, digital coax out, component video out, and S-video out are all present. <br />If you never plan to play MP3s, and you have the fingers of an 8-year-old child and don't mind the remote, then this is a very good DVD player. If you have normal fingers and play MP3s, don't even think about it. What a disappointment.