Toshiba SD-2300 NUON DVD Player
Nuon woks as advertised, Great DVD player
I replaced an older Toshibs DVD player with the Nuon SD2300, and  I like it a lot. As advertised, fast and slow, forward and reverse work smothly -- without jerkiness, pixelization or loss of image. The image seemed clearer than the older player produced.<br />The zoom feature is as smooth as glass. You can smoothly zoom in and out. When you zoom in, a rectangle indicating full image size is displayed, along with a smaller rectangle inside it, to indicate the degree of magnification. The rectangle appears as 4 lines in the uper left of the screen. It goes away after a few seconds. You can use the remote &quot;joystick&quot; to pan around, and the two rectangles reappear as a guide. <br />I set my default mode to 4:3 (no letterbox) and, very nicely, it zoomed a letterbox movie to exactly fill the screen vertically. Evidently, it can detect the black bars and zoom them off the screen. If you want letterbox, it will of course display the full image width. 16:9 is also supported.<br />It is easer to navigate and select 5.1 audio than with other DVD players I've used. There are other features, like multiple angles all being displayed on one screen, that I haven't tested. There's also a strobe mode where successive frames are displayed in a 2x3 layout. Again, works as advertised.<br />The Audio Visualization feature is a strange bird. You have a rather limited number of visualizations to select from -- seems to be about 8. They are not very imiginative. The visualizatilon add-on's I've seen for MP3 PC software are orders of magnitude more inventive, interesting, suprising, and more detailed. But as a CD player screen saver, so to speak, the SD2300's visualization is more than OK.<br />Nuon games were not available when I got it. Th Samsung Nuon DVD player evidently includes a game pad. You have to buy one separately for the Toshiba.<br />All in all, I like the SD2300 very much and would recommend it to anyone who wants more than simple, single-speed playback. If you liketo move forward or reverse, fast and slow, like a tape but with a continual image display, this player can't be beat.