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Review on πŸ“€ Progressive Scan DVD Player Toshiba SD-4900 with Enhanced SEO by Gopal Baltimore

Revainrating 2 out of 5

Very disappointed

I've always loved Toshiba electronics so when I saw this DVD player I didn't hesitate to buy it. This is not the quality I usually get when I buy a Toshiba. Here's why I sent it back after 30 days. Quite often I'll hit a button to show how much time is left on a DVD I'm watching. This feature is not even an option for this player. I could only view the elapsed time. I thought maybe I just didn't understand how to do it. I've looked through the whole book. This function simply does not exist. I also paused quite a few times on my previous Sony DVD player and was even able to hit stop and after a few hours hit play and pick up where I left off. This player will, but not for long. After a while it goes all the way back to the beginning of the DVD even though I never hit the stop button or the power button. If you can enter a chapter number, you must first press another key to go directly there. When I pressed the number keys while playing a DVD, nothing happened. This brings me to the location of the buttons on the remote control. Not practical at all. Maybe I'm just not used to it, but mostly I use the pause button. pause as if to open the door; or the phone rings; or I'm thirsty. Why is the button so small and so closely surrounded by other small buttons? Every time I was looking for a button I had to look and couldn't get used to the layout. When you stand in front of the player, all the buttons look the same. Each is a small dot and the text above it is very small. The contrast between the letters and the background was worse than what I see in these photos. I have 20/20+ eyesight and had trouble finding the right button in low light. I'm not sure what the following observation means, but I found it interesting. A Sony DVD player that I accidentally welded to a very powerful receiver and the Sony DVD player that replaced this Toshiba model played widescreen movies perfectly centered on the TV screen. However, the two main TVs I'm looking at are monitors for both Toshiba receivers - a 57-inch widescreen 16:9 and a 37-inch tube set. This player plays a movie with a larger black bar at the bottom than at the top. On my widescreen, when the image was large enough that there were no black bars, the top edge seemed clipped too much. I suspect it has something to do with the DVD player but honestly Toshiba uses a Sony receiver. I haven't tried a DVD player connected directly to the TV, but I see no reason why the receiver should change the received and amplified signal.

Pros
  • TV & Video
Cons
  • Questionable purchase for the elderly