Toshiba SD2805 5-Disc Carousel DVD and CD Player
It works fine, but could be better
This DVD carousel is just OK.  It plays DVD's well enough, most of the time (I'll get to that later).  But there are flaws in the design:<br /><br />- Skipping from disk to disk isn't easy.  There's a large pause as it stops at each disk, and there's no way to jump directly to a specific disk.  You may be thinking, \\"bid deal,\\" as I did when I read reviews, but it really does get annoying.  My 15 year old TEAC CD carousel could complete five \\"laps\\" in the time this Toshiba does one.<br /><br />- Disks can get slightly out of align in their cradle, causing the DVD to return a \\"NO DISK\\" error even though it's there.  So you have to open the tray and get it back in alignment.  Not a huge deal, but minor annoyance.  (Compound that with the above annoyance and they add up.)<br /><br />- I've had DVD's not play on this player.  I had assumed they were defective and took them back, at which time the clerk took it and popped it into their $40 DVD player and it worked just fine.  There were no issues with the region encoding or anything like that.<br /><br />But on the positive side, it works fine and plays movies well enough.  I use the optical cable for the audio, and it sounds awesome...so it has that going for it...which is nice...<br /><br />===================<br /><br />Update:  As of January 2012, I'm still using this DVD player.  Everything still works great!  Granted, I'm not a power user who watches tons of DVDs, but it's still ticking after 6 years of use.<br /><br />===================<br /><br />Update 2:  As of June 2013, DVD player is still great.  No issues, even with a 3 year old abusing it as he loads in his Elmo DVD's!  He pushes the tray in manually rather than using the buttons - still no issues.  I must say, I'm considering going to 4 stars at this point, just due to longevity.