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Toshiba SD2805 5-Disc Carousel DVD and CD Player
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(4 out of 5) by Joel Cranford on Dec 15, 2008 (La Vergne, TN)Our Toshiba SD-2805 was purchased primarily to replace an old JVC 5+1 CD disk changer. Since the stereo and TV were in the same room, this seemed like a good solution for music and DVD (and it was unlikely we'd ever need both at once).
Over the past six years we've used this primarily for watching movies, actually. It's held up great and does a fine job. I love that it's a carousel as opposed to a 'disk stack.' The carousel can slow you down a bit and, if you don't seat a disk correctly, can jam.
By todays standards (Dec. 2008) it's dated, lacking progressive scan and any sort of HD capacity of course. As we prepare to purchase our first HDTV, I could make use of the component video out or even S-Video, but we may have to call it good and replace it. But after six years (and two moves) it's held up great - no problems whatsoever and outstanding performance.
So why post a review six years later? Just on the off-chance someone finds one to buy and is curious to know if it's a good deal or not. I'd have to say yes (since you'd find it under $100). Others in this thread have had bad luck with theirs, and that's the sad reality that in almost every case, someone can eventually have a lemon in the production mix.
It's got me thinking I should stick with Toshiba next time around...
Over the past six years we've used this primarily for watching movies, actually. It's held up great and does a fine job. I love that it's a carousel as opposed to a 'disk stack.' The carousel can slow you down a bit and, if you don't seat a disk correctly, can jam.
By todays standards (Dec. 2008) it's dated, lacking progressive scan and any sort of HD capacity of course. As we prepare to purchase our first HDTV, I could make use of the component video out or even S-Video, but we may have to call it good and replace it. But after six years (and two moves) it's held up great - no problems whatsoever and outstanding performance.
So why post a review six years later? Just on the off-chance someone finds one to buy and is curious to know if it's a good deal or not. I'd have to say yes (since you'd find it under $100). Others in this thread have had bad luck with theirs, and that's the sad reality that in almost every case, someone can eventually have a lemon in the production mix.
It's got me thinking I should stick with Toshiba next time around...
SD2805 is a piece of junk
(1 out of 5) by Lola Haute on Jun 27, 2008 (From the Bay to LA, Cali)I used it for a year then it broke right after the warranty was over. Now it won't read ANY DVDS! What a waste of money!
Junk, junk, junk!
(1 out of 5) by Woody on Dec 18, 2007 (Providence, RI)Mine stopped working about 2 months after the warranty ran out. A waste of my hard earned cash. Replaced it with a Samsung V3650. Works flawlessly.
Did i mention the toshiba was junk?
Did i mention the toshiba was junk?
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Awesome product, great picture quality
(5 out of 5) by Nicholas Waddington on May 19, 2005 (New York, NY)I bought this a few months ago and was amazed at the simplicity of its operation. It has all the features you could possibly want. The thing that makes this awesome is the 5 disc changer, which are hard to find at a decent price ($150). In all I am extremely pleased and wish they still made them, I would have bought another as a gift for my DVD fanatic aunt!
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
It works fine, but could be better
(3 out of 5) by Brian Hoskins on Feb 3, 2005 (Seattle)This DVD carousel is just OK. It plays DVD's well enough, most of the time (I'll get to that later). But there are flaws in the design:
- Skipping from disk to disk isn't easy. There's a large pause as it stops at each disk, and there's no way to jump directly to a specific disk. You may be thinking, "bid deal," as I did when I read reviews, but it really does get annoying. My 15 year old TEAC CD carousel could complete five "laps" in the time this Toshiba does one.
- Disks can get slightly out of align in their cradle, causing the DVD to return a "NO DISK" error even though it's there. So you have to open the tray and get it back in alignment. Not a huge deal, but minor annoyance. (Compound that with the above annoyance and they add up.)
- I've had DVD's not play on this player. I had assumed they were defective and took them back, at which time the clerk took it and popped it into their $40 DVD player and it worked just fine. There were no issues with the region encoding or anything like that.
But on the positive side, it works fine and plays movies well enough. I use the optical cable for the audio, and it sounds awesome...so it has that going for it...which is nice...
- Skipping from disk to disk isn't easy. There's a large pause as it stops at each disk, and there's no way to jump directly to a specific disk. You may be thinking, "bid deal," as I did when I read reviews, but it really does get annoying. My 15 year old TEAC CD carousel could complete five "laps" in the time this Toshiba does one.
- Disks can get slightly out of align in their cradle, causing the DVD to return a "NO DISK" error even though it's there. So you have to open the tray and get it back in alignment. Not a huge deal, but minor annoyance. (Compound that with the above annoyance and they add up.)
- I've had DVD's not play on this player. I had assumed they were defective and took them back, at which time the clerk took it and popped it into their $40 DVD player and it worked just fine. There were no issues with the region encoding or anything like that.
But on the positive side, it works fine and plays movies well enough. I use the optical cable for the audio, and it sounds awesome...so it has that going for it...which is nice...