Toshiba SD4700 Progressive-Scan DVD Player
much better than your average progressive DVD player
In response to the reviewer who felt this product is only fair: a little maintenance can go a long way. A $10-$20 lens cleaner might get your player to read discs again. But if yours is defective, it doesn't mean the model is not a very good performer, with excellent features. As another reviewer mentioned, Alon, I too have an HDTV that does not allow for aspect ratio control when viewing thru the progressive inputs. But the SD-4700 has a &quot;full/4:3&quot; setting in the menu to adjust for standard or widescreen DVDs, without distortion. It does have a problem with alignment of icons on the menu pages, but it's trivial and I'm used to it. The letterboxing on a 2.35:1 DVD (like Gladiator), can be easily eliminated by the easy-to-use zoom feature, if you don't mind losing a little side content and picture resolution. But if you want to watch a &quot;super widescreen&quot; release on a widescreen TV, what else can you do? Nothing's perfect, at least not at these prices. I wasn't aware of the cropping of pixels (thanks Alon), but overall, most DVD movies look fairly amazing when played on my Toshiba (CW34x92) 34&quot;. They seem to be a perfect match. The colors seem to be true without tweaking, and the definition is very impressive. That's what a progressive scanning DVD player can do when hooked up to a good HDTV 16x9 monitor.