TOSHIBA SD5970 DVD Player, HDMI

by Toshiba

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 7 pounds
• ASIN: B0001W01JM
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #431,106 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

A great home theater system needs a powerful DVD player. Toshiba's SD-5960 sets a new standard for the digital age with the purest reproduction of images and sound possible.

The SD-5960 features a high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI), which makes this DVD player an ideal match for digital television sets, including high-definition TVs. With this HDMI DVD player, you can have a pure, all-digital connection between the player and your other home theater components. With an all-digital interface, you get to experience exactly what you intended to see when you bought a DVD. Distortion is minimized and the picture is stunningly real.

The SD-5960 utilizes Toshiba's ColorStream Pro progressive-scan video technology to yield vivid colors, clean resolution, and reduced onscreen distortion. The SD-5960 uses digital cinema progressive scanning to reproduce your DVDs in theater-like clarity. It also features a 10 bit/54 MHz video digital-to-analog converter that adds realistic warmth to the picture.

Through the HDMI, the SD-5960 offers video upconversion, which upgrades the standard DVD picture to HDTV picture quality. This improvement yields the highest resolution rate possible. While the SD-5960 is compatible with both analog and digital televisions, you will get the optimum effect by linking it with a high-definition television.

The SD-5960 plays DVDs, DVD-Rs, and CDs, so you can enjoy all your favorite videos and music. You can also play MP3s and view digital JPEG photos from CDs created in your computer.

Make the most of your music and movies with clear, clean sound, thanks to Toshiba's 24-bit/192 kHz audio digital-to-analog converter. This converter translates digital audio data into a natural, high-fidelity sound. The SD-5960 also features 3D virtual surround sound, with both coaxial and optical digital audio outputs.

Connecting the powerful SD-5960 to your home theater is simple. In addition to guaranteeing a pure transfer of digital signals, the HDMI sends multichannel audio and uncompressed digital video signals to your TV or receiver through a single connection.

What's in the Box
SD-5960 DVD player, remote control, owner's manual.

From the Manufacturer

The Toshiba SD-5960 DVD player includes:

• High-definition multimedia interface (HDMI) brings home theater to the next level by streaming multichannel digital audio and digital video information together on one cable to digital televisions and monitors with a compatible input.
• ColorStream Pro progressive scan component video outputs compatible with today's finest analog and digital televisions for delivery of stunningly colorful images.
• 10-bit/54-MHz video digital-to-analog conversion for maximum color purity, detail, and resolution.
• 24-bit/192 kHz audio PCM audio compatibility delivers warmer, more natural-sounding audio from many types of discs.
• DVD-video/CD/Video CD playback. DVD-R/CD-R/CD-RW compatible playback ensures discs made with personal computers can be played back in the home theater system, too.
• JPEG viewer enables a user to display digital photographs on a television set in the JPEG digital format.
• Upconversion to 720p/1080i resolution
• Digital cinema progressive scan (3:2 pulldown)
• Coaxial and optical TosLink digital audio outputs
• WMA and MP3 playback
• 3-D virtual surround
• Universal remote with TV controls

Technology and benefits:

• High-definition multimedia interface (HDMI): HDMI is the first industry-support, uncompressed, all-digital audio/video connect. HDMI provides the best interface between a DVD player and compatible products, such as a digital television (DTV). When matched with a compatible TV, this single interconnecting cable combines: multi-channel audio, uncompressed digital video, intercommunication between devices and simple control protocols. This single cable connection ensures that all signals remain in their pure digital form and secure by use of high definition copy protection (HDCP) regardless of signal output resolution.
• Video upconversion - 720p/1090i: HDMI can support uncompressed digital video up to HDTV level resolution. Thus, the player makes use of this conduit by upconverting the standard DVD picture resolution to nearly HDTV-quality with output resolutions of 720p or 1080i. This makes a DVD player with an HDMI connection the perfect match for today's digital televisions. And because this conversion is performed in the player, the signal remains free from excessive digital-to-analog conversion artifacts.
• ColorStream Pro component video outputs: These outputs allow the video signal to be sent from the DVD player to a component video equipped interlaced or progressive scan TV. When this connection is utilized with today's HD-compatible sets, typical NTSC artifacts--like video noise, dot crawl, and flicker--are virtually eliminated, resulting in a low-noise, highly detailed picture with unequaled color purity.
• Digital cinema progressive (3:2 pulldown): Delivers the smoothest, most film-like images to any progressive scan television, such as an HD-compatible one, and ensures maximum resolution.
• JPEG viewer: Enables the display of digital photographs captured in the JPEG format. Simply load the CD with your favorite photos and create custom slide shows with a few simple clicks of the player's remote control.
• WMA and MP3 playback: Recordable compact discs (CD-R and CD-RW) with music stored in either the Windows Media audio or MP3 file formats can be enjoyed.
• Coaxial and optical TosLink Dolby Digital and DTS surround sound output: Use the single RCA-type or optical output jack to send signature multi-channel audio to an audio/video receiver with a compatible input.
• Universal remote with TV controls: Enjoy control of all DVD functions and basic television controls from the same remote.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars awesome, April 22, 2004

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Don Powell (Puyallup, Washington USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: TOSHIBA SD5970 DVD Player, HDMI (Electronics)

All I have to say is what a stunning picture.I love this player.I have it connected to my Toshiba cinema series tv
and what a pair.I had to get an hdmi to dvi cable (hdcp)and thats all.I am real impressed with the detail.Not HD but almost if you know what I mean.The remote is just ok

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome Picture, April 24, 2004

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Robert Wininger (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: TOSHIBA SD5970 DVD Player, HDMI (Electronics)

Like the review before me, connected to my Toshiba Cinema Series TV with an HDMI to DVI cord and the picture is stunning. I also agree that the remote has an "interesting" button design.