Rating: 
Summary: Disappointing DVD Player
Review: I purchased this player about five months ago. Recently while playing a flawless DVD, the picture froze up while audio continued to play. Powering down the player and restarting it solved the problem. MP3 playback is a problem on this unit also. The instructions include a nice "disclaimer" about how certain types of MP3 media may not work. All MP3 media sounds terrible on this machine. Playback is interrupted by "pops" and "chirps". MP3 discs also cause the unit to freeze and not advance to the next song (though you can advance it manually by pressing the skip button).Picture playback is good and the unit has many features not found on other players, such as screen capture (allows you to use a scene from a DVD and select it as "Wallpaper" for your TV) and zoom capabilities. I have not utilized the player's progressive scan output yet.
Rating: 
Summary: Very Pleased
Review: I spent all day yesterday and today researching DVD players online, and then went to three major electronics stores to try them out and figure out which one was the best. I knew I wanted the following features: Progressive scan - even though I don't have a TV that can utilize, I may upgrade soon
Advanced Menu System
MP3/CD - with MP3, I wanted a navigational system, and most importantly I wanted to be able to random play the disc. I took an MP3 CD to the store and popped it in each of the MP3/DVD players. I tried probably 20 or 30 of them in the end, and I was most impressed with the Toshiba. It loaded the disc the quickest, and random play worked like a charm. Scan time was the quickest when it had to jump around the disc. It has a navigation system online, but only supports the first 8 characters and ends with the ~1 characters. It has S-Video output and the newer colorstream component output. I'm stuck with the A/V typical jacks. Regardless of me being stuck with the worst grade video output because of my older TV, the picture looked great. I watched O Brother Where Art Though, and as far as I could tell, it looked fantastic. Sound is hooked into my Sony receiver and it sounds great, too. I pop an MP3 disc in and hit shuffle and it works as expected. No support for tags...nor can you fast-forward through a song, though. When I got home, I compared this model to other more expensive models, and it had all their features and more...so I feel like I made a wise investment, and am very happy with the product. It also comes with an advanced remote which allows you to do angle shots, zoom in/out, record and loop frames, turn on subtitles, etc., etc.
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Summary: How do you rate progressive?
Review: I went all out. Never owned dvd player or high definition tv. I did a lot of research online and this toshiba had the most features for the money plus for future benefit will play dvd-r. someday we can record things and this unit will be able to play it. My tv is the panasonic hx36 which is 4:3 aspect ratio (regular square tv) BUT man what a picture even with out hdtv signal it makes regular cable and dvd picture impeccable. NOW for my question when i swith from progressive to interlace with the remote (you can do this if the switch on back of unit is set to progressive) you can judge the picture between interlace versus progressive very quickly......there is NO difference...both pictures are impeccable sharp and like no other. SO, is why all the hype about you get best picture with progressive and combined HDTV monitor. it seems to me the tv is what makes the picture so good and it didn't have to be progressive scan. Any thoughts if possibel email me.
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Summary: The Mysterious Toshiba SD3750 Progressive Scan DVD Player
Review: I would love to know more about this DVD player. Amazon has almost no description of it, but the Toshiba site has even less. I called their customer service number yesterday and had to prove to them that they had mentioned this player in a press release. Pretty sad. I went into one of my local brick and mortar stores that distributes Toshiba so I could learn more about the SD5700 and HDCD. They had no clue about either one. After I explained HDCD and that the SD4700 and SD5700 were progressive scan DVD players that were supposed to come out this summer, I was ready to bolt and find more info on the net myself. They persuaded me to wait while they called their distributor. They relayed the message that the distributor had just came from a trade show in Vegas where he had been told that the 5700 had been canned before it hit the market and that it had been replaced by the SD3750. They said the 3750 and all subsequent Toshiba DVD players would be equipped with HDCD and the 3750 would be $249.99 plus tax. They also told me the distributor said not to buy a SD5700 even if I found one since Toshiba was replacing it with the SD3750. I found a mention of the 3750 in a June 28, 2001 Toshiba press release and as an item on Amazon. Other than that, you would think this product does not exist. I called the Toshiba customer service/contact number. After I proved to them that they were marketing this product, they gave me a few specs. I was told the 3750 plays DVD, VCD, CD-R, CD-RW, and MP3 formats. DAC is 10/54mhz. Resolution is 540 lines. Has N 2 2 surround. They said it does not have Dolby Digital (I asked if that meant that it did not have a built in Dolby Digital decoder or it does not support Dolby Digital ....but they had no clue what it meant). They also had no idea about DTS capability. Optical Audio out, S-Video, Component Video, and Composite Video outputs. Toshiba said this product will be in stores on August 29th and so will the SD4700 and SD5700 ... so much for the replacement theory. The most disturbing thing is that they said it does NOT have HDCD. I told them what the brick and mortar company said. Toshiba said the specs they had there were not set in stone and that it may have HDCD after all. That calls everything they said about the 3750 into question. How can customer service for a company not know "set in stone" specs for a product that will hit the shelves in one week? I love Toshiba DVD, but they must be pretty dense.
Rating:
Summary: Excellent Choice for Your DVD Needs...
Review: I've been having my Toshiba 3750 for 2 weeks now. No problems so far. I've played an MP3 disc with 140 songs, worked excellent. I've rented and played about 10 movies, flawless operation. I have it hooked up to my Technics receiver via an optical cable, no problems with sound or video. No complaints and no problems with any aspect of this DVD player. Excellent choice for regular home users like me....
Rating: 
Summary: Great Player for the Money!
Review: I've owned 3 DVD players and this one so far has been the best. The picture has sharp quality, especially using the S-Video cable connection, and the colors are very vibrant. The on screen navigation is very simple as is changing audio settings while playing a DVD. I've played all qualities of DVDs from brand new to scratched up library rentals and it has played every one of them. The only negative and the reason I didn't give it 5 stars is the clumsy layout of the remote control. The buttons are very small and don't seem to be layed out very well compared to most other models. But all in all, this player is well worth the money!
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Summary: Everything great, but glitches with mp3 playback
Review: Love the player, but the mp3 playback seems buggy... I did an experiment using a single test song on various CD-R/CD-RWs burned at different speeds, using different mp3 encoders at differing bitrates (128-256k), stereo modes, etc., but every one played with loud pops and warbles throughout the song. They're so loud they're impossible to ignore. The defects are in different places during the test song, so I'm not sure what's causing it (disc surface, encoding, decoding???). Anyone have any tips? (I read somewhere that gold media worked better than blue-green, but where do I find gold media? You can't tell by the packaging what color the media is...) TIA.
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Summary: Amazon deceives you on delivery dates
Review: Never order for Christmas electronics from Amazon. They will
tell you its available and then at the last minute, they
will tell you its delayed and can't be shipped until after
Christmas. They evidently do not understand the concept
of commiting inventory to an order at the time of order.
They do not care if they ruin people's Christmas by not fulfilling their commitments.
Rating: 
Summary: Video OK, MP3 a total miss
Review: On paper this sounds like a great DVD. I was looking to upgrade my current DVD and also a unit for my Dad to go with his HD TV. I kept the one for my dad but returned mine. The picture's fine and it operates OK as a DVD player. My complaints:
Lacking 5.2 audio outputs (guess i should have read the specs better). But where this baby really misses is MP3 playback They advertise it. But not all the files were listed. The others were all listed twice. Only 8 characters were listed on the screen display it could not use the ID info on the disc. But absolutely worst of all the files it did manage to find to play were full of clicks and sprts and whoops and other weird artifacts. Definately lo-fi minus. I have a Rio Volt and its simply fantastic at finding and playing files - of course it took until early last year B4 firmware upgrades made it work right - but the SD3750 can't even take firmware upgrades off the CD-ROM. No hope at all. Certainly a mega-corp like Toshiba (and other brands as well!) should be able to hire decent programmer/engineers to make the MP3 work right.(my daugther's P********c brand can't read the directory right either but at least the songs it finds it plays w/o artifacts) Maybe the market staff for DVDs isn't into MP3 at all... Best take a sample MP3 disk to the store if this is omportant to you.
Rating:
Summary: Great DVD player - nice zoom - some mp3 limitations
Review: Overall is the best DVD player I have tried. Considering the feature set and price and I am very pleased with this unit.
Pros:
- Excellent image quality (however I can't comment on the progressive scan feature - I purchased this for the other features). - Nice menu navigation - accessable from the front panel as as well as from the remote. - Easy to use remote. - Nice zoom (I currently and will for some time stay with a 4:3 conventional TV) and I like to use the zoom the when watching the extreme widescreen format (I actually prefer the 16:9 high-definition viewing format that some DVD releases have).
This player zooms the ultra widescreen first to close to 16:9 and then to close to fullscreen zoom.
The first step (16:9) zoom has incredible zoom resoulution - almost as good as the original ultra-widescreen image.
The only better zoom I've seen is the Toshiba 2300 NUON which I think has been discontinued although I think I saw a Samsung NUON unit that claims a good zoom. The Toshiba 2300 lacks other features though. - Operates and feels like it has some quality. Cons:
- All DVD players that I tried have limited MP3 playback capability. I have a RioVolt portable that does a much better job of playing MP3 files than any home CD or DVD player I have seen. - Toshiba 3750 does not support CD-RW MP3 disks on this unit and sure enough, my unit will not play CD-RW MP3 disks at all. Normal CD-R MP3 disks seem to work OK. - MP3 playback is either sequential or full disk random and is user selectable. No directory only sequential or random. - I had to burn my MP3 disks using the ISO level 1 (8 character music file names - no extensions) which is almost useless for me if I want to actually figure out the filename in the directory listing because I rip my MP3 files using a "artist - song title" filename format and there is no tag support so all I see in the Toshiba directory listing is artist~1,artist~2,artist~3 for example (in contrast my RioVolt plays the extended format and supports tags - so the full artist name and song title is displayed in the directory listing). In closing I think this is a great DVD player. The MP3 feature is limited but still useful for playing a disk full of songs either sequentially or randomly.
In general there is great potential for nice MP3 navigation with these players because the video screen is available for MP3 file navigation and selection - even playlists could be supported, but no one in the DVD player arena seems to be close to this yet. The Video features and quality are great.
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