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Summary: Good overall value with many great features
Review: I researched MANY DVD players, and after much deliberation, I decided to give the Toshiba SD-2715 a try. I had it connected to my TV and up and running in just a few mintues. The picture and audio quality were great. I had never used a "zoom" mode DVD player before, and this feature was a nice surprise that might come in handy once in a while. You can pause the movie and then zoom in to check the monogram on a shirt button, or just let the movie play while you zoom in and pan around the screen with the navigation arrows. Very cool. The first negative thing I noticed was how SLOW this player is to identify and load a disc. It literally takes 20 seconds to figure out what kind of disc it's reading and to start playing. I tried VCD's and MP3 CD's created with my CD-RW drive on my computer, and a variety of different DVD's. So far, it has played EVERYTHING I've thrown at it... but again, the load speed is excruciatingly ssslllloooowwwww. The only other negative is that it won't play MP3 files in random order. Who wants to listen to an MP3 CD with 250 songs on it in the SAME ORDER EVERY TIME? I'm glad it plays MP3's at all, of course, but I don't know how often I'll use this feature when there is no way to randomize the playlist. Post purchase, I've done some research online... and so far I've only found ONE other DVD player that will actually play MP3's randomly (APEX 1500). I'm sure there are others, but I doubt that they will have all of the other positive features of this player. It's a good buy.
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Summary: Another Solid Effort from Toshiba
Review: I'd agree wholeheartedly with Harold, his review is very accurate. As with every other Toshiba product I've owned it's a good quality unit, but it is terribly SLOW. Also the remote is not backlit and the buttons are very small - other than that it's a very good product, especially for the money.
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Summary: Audiophiles beware
Review: I'm more of an audophile than a videophile so the CD handling was important and thus the reason for the carousel. Sound quality is quite good for this level of player with transparent highs and nicely filled out harmonics in the bass range. My quibble is with the carousel. Unless you select the repeat mode, it only plays one disk and stops. So every time I load cd's I must press repeat twice to get it to go through all the disks. Even the disk skip button moves it to the next disk but stops playing, despite what the owners manual says! And my last quibble is with the buttons on the cd player for repeat, random, disk exchange, and skip disk. Although conveniently placed, they're sooo small - about the width of a piece of lead in a wooden pencil! I'm really worried about they're longevity in daily use. Well that's it. Great sound but questionable ergonomics.
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Summary: Audiophiles beware
Review: I'm more of an audophile than a videophile so the CD handling was important and thus the reason for the carousel. Sound quality is quite good for this level of player with transparent highs and nicely filled out harmonics in the bass range. My quibble is with the carousel. Unless you select the repeat mode, it only plays one disk and stops. So every time I load cd's I must press repeat twice to get it to go through all the disks. Even the disk skip button moves it to the next disk but stops playing, despite what the owners manual says! And my last quibble is with the buttons on the cd player for repeat, random, disk exchange, and skip disk. Although conveniently placed, they're sooo small - about the width of a piece of lead in a wooden pencil! I'm really worried about they're longevity in daily use. Well that's it. Great sound but questionable ergonomics.
Rating: 
Summary: Disappointing
Review: I've had good luck with Toshiba products in the past (I own two of their TVs and two VCRs), but this DVD player has been a major disappointment. Unfortunately, I didn't discover some of this DVD players' shortcomings until after [local store's] return policy had expired, so I couldn't return it. I bought the carousel model so I could use it to play a selection of CDs at random, but it is very clumsy to program the random feature, and it's VERY slow between selections. Also, you actually have to program this thing EVERY time you play more than one disc, or it will just stop after it plays one disc. The DVD player creates a nice picture, but there have been way too many skips during playback.
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Summary: Great Buy! But MP3 disks take some work...
Review: It's an excellent player with a rich feature set and excellent price. It took work to produce MP3 disks that work with this player. The CD must be ISO 9660 formatted as a data CD. Easy CD Creator can do this but you must goof around with the settings in Easy CD Creator for it to work. After messing aound with settings in Easy CD Creator, I was able to burn MP3 CD's that play correctly. Toshiba says in their "Guidelines for playback of MP3 Encoded Compact Discs" (included with the documentation with the player) to use 74 minute CD-R's. However, I used 80 munute CD-R's (Memorex) sucessfully.
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Summary: Love It!
Review: My wife & I love our DVD. Really impressed with the improved picture & sound quality. We have a big screen TV with surround sound. It is just like being at the movies! Glad we got the 2715 because of the 5 CD carousel. No problem with skipping as some of the other reviews mention. We would highly recommend the Toshiba 2715 to everyone.
Larry & Carole
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Summary: Great Buy !!!
Review: Pros: plays dvd, dvd-r, cd, mp3, cdr, vcd; price, loaded with features; excellent dvd sound and picture quality.
Cons: a tad slow to response and motor makes slight noise while changing discs.
Bottom line: is in-expensive and a great buy for a 5 disc changer. Package contains fairly decent remote, a set of AAA batteries, a composite video and analog audio cable, good user-manual and a separate write-up mp3 playback and recording. Recommended: highly. Setup is easy and straight forward with the setup button on remote. Styling: player comes in black finish, looks plain, has lots of button on front panel such as on/off, open/close, disc ex-change during play, disc skip, stop, pause, ff /reverse. Displays the disc numbers for inserted disc and blinks when it is playing. Connections:
audio:
5.1 analog, digital coax, optical.
video:
composite, s-video and component video (rear panel contains switch to change between s-video and component). since i did not have digital audio cable nor s-video cable at hand, I used video coax cable to connect digital coax audio to my pioneer vsx-d409 dolby digital/dts receiver and used composite connection for video to my sharp 32' tv. The sound and picture quality after adjusting setting (audio set to stream/pcm)sounded and looked great. dvd contains 2x,4x,16x,100x speed for fast forward and reverse, slow motion can go from ½ to 1/16 speed, other features included are zoom, multi-language sub-titles, multi-camera angle view
vcd 2x, 4x.
mp3: displays directory with filenames of upto 12 characters only. this can be viewed only when you tv set is on. (mp3 limitation: should be recorded in iso-9660 format and recording should start from track 1 itself). I was evaluating 2 other players during the same time namely pioneer dv-c503 and panasonic dvd-cv51, I chose this player over panasonic for price and other it does not have digital coax socket, pioneer does not play mp3 / no zoom feature....
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Summary: The sales clerk was right
Review: Sometimes, even when you get a scatterbrained and barely helpful employee who stops for two seconds to answer your question before rushing off, they're STILL right. The barely out of her diapers teenager at Best Buy told me that the best five-disc changer was a Toshiba, but because she didn't seem credible I initially chose a Philips. THAT was a huge mistake. I rectified it by exchanging it for the Toshiba the next day and have loved it ever since. It plays every DVD I throw in it flawlessly, from "Fifth Element" to "American Pie 2" to the second season of "The Sopranos." If you're looking for a high quality player with the added bonus of a five-disc changer for a relatively inexpensive price, this is your buy. Sure, it doesn't have progressive scan, but if you don't have a HDTV (and I don't) you don't need it anyway - get this instead.
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Summary: Great Player, good price, lack of SVCD support of 5 stars
Review: The Amazon page for this player specifies that it does support SVCDs, this is not true. However, I was so happy with the player in all other aspects, I didn't want to return it. Still, the lack of SVCD support is sorely missed on an otherwise full featured player. CDR and CDRW support are great, and VCD support is there. I've found VCD preformance to be suprisingly good relative to some friends players. All in all, this is a great buy, but if you simply absolutely must have SVCD support, then find another player. If Toshiba would add support for SVCDs this would be an easy 5/5 stars. Funny thing is, I emailed Toshiba about the lack of SVCD playback and they told me they weren't familiar with that format, heh.
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