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just purchased the toshiba 220e,what a fantastic player.it suffers from none of the problems other mid price players have(pixelation,colour drag).i bought the multi region version wich is the best bet.it has a few worthwile features,picture enhancement which adjusts colour and contrast to suit your taste.also a sound enhancer which seems to give the sound more whomph.i had the choice of the pioneer 350 or the toshiba and,im glad i chose the latter.a must have.

I recently bought a 32" inch wide screen television and had a 5.1 speaker system for my computer. I was wanting to buy a DVD player that could take advantage of the sound system and display a high quality image on the screen. I'm also mad about having lots of things to mess around with like colour settings and things like that. I decided to plump for the Toshiba after reading around and since have been highly pleased by it. It offers me the optical input for my sound which sounds infinitly better than the stand L-R analogue inputs and picture quality was top notch, messing around with the motion filters was good fun aswell. I would recommend this to anyone who like me (being a student0 can't afford spending over a few hundred on a DVD player, it does what almost any top range one does apart from dent the back balance as much!

After the astonishingly accomplished SD210E, Toshiba had a lot to live up to with this DVD player. And they don't dissapoint. The DVD player has all the nicities that we've come to expect from Toshiba. RGB compatible scart, S-Video and Composite Video interconnects, Coaxial Digital & Optical Digital outputs. And - unusally in this price bracket - component video outputs, which provide picture quality even better than that of scart.
The SD220E supports all the standard Discs, including CD-R and RW with MP3 encoded music playback.
In actual performance terms the Toshiba is as mighty as its specifications might lead you to think. Even via the S-Video output there's no signs of noise or grain in the picture, and colour vibrancy & contrast depth are top rate - to say nothing of the Scart & Component Video outputs! The sound is also first rate, with huge scale scores such as that of Lord Of The Rings conveyed with convincing realism; with the birds in the trees in "The Shire" chapter are so well placed & separated form the dialogue that you forget they're part of the film.
This is quite nice this Toshiba. Possibly its only downside is that there's no SACD or DVD-A playback, but unless you're dying to slip into the black art of Multichannel future format music in the next few days you wont feel short changed. Enjoy!

PROS:
-Can play MP3's.
-Silver finish looks the business!
-Last Track Memory remembers the last scene/music track you last played.

CONS:
-Not multi-region.
-No Screen Saver for MP3 mode.
-The OSD (On-Screen Display) requires too much button-pressing to access frequently-used features (e.g. file browsing in MP3's).
-LCD on the unit could be a bit bigger (& longer).

OVERALL:
I like it. I like it alot!

This replaced my Sony NS305 as the sony had problems playing SVCD's this one has no problems! VCD, SVCD DVD+R & DVD+R/W! my home DV footage is edited with Adobe Premiere 6.5 and burnt to a DVD the results are even better than broadcast quality?

The on-screen menu system is simple with lots of audio/visual tweaks, some may find the unit is slightly loud when listening to a quiet CD/DVD. dont let that distract you because this is a serious peice of kit...........