Toshiba SD-1200 DVD Player
Great bargain for the price!
As a lover of all things audio-video, I must say that the Toshiba SD-1200 is one fine machine.  I personally own an older model SD-500 sony from two years ago, a Toshiba 2008, toshiba 3108, and a creative labs dvd player for my pc, and I must confess that the toshiba SD-1200 is a great player.  The color reproduction from the toshiba is outstanding, and I have always felt that toshiba dvd players produce a brighter, more vibrant  color scheme than any other DVD player that I have seen.      The  definition, and black level detail in the Toshiba SD-1200 is better than  any other DVD player in that price range.  The only thing that is not as  good as it could be is the players in-player letterboxing.  If you are like  me, you watch your movie on a standard 4:3 tv which means that when you are  watching an &quot;anamorphic&quot; dvd, the player must convert the picture  to be displayed on your tv.  The Toshiba SD-1200 has a tendency to add wavy  edges to scenes that contain parallel lines that are close together.  For  example, in the movie aliens, the floor of the fortress they are in has  many closely spaced metal divisions that can tend to look like liquid metal  when the camera slowly pans over the surface.  Having owned or seen many  dvd players in this price range I know that this is a problem for all dvd  players, but the Toshiba SD-1200 handles this problem the best.  The only  players that can letterbox well are the $600 and up players, so this should  not be a knock on the Toshiba SD-1200.      The audio outputs provided  great sound when I fed them into my dolby digital/DTS receiver, but the  omission of an optical output may upset some people.        All in all, I  think that the Toshiba SD-1200 is a great deal for the price and offers  great audio, and video performance.