Customer Reviews

Toshiba SD-2300 NUON DVD Player

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This is the best you will find, for the price. I looked at and tried out, at least 50 different DVD players. I returned two to the stores, as I was not at all happy with their performance. I settled on the Toshiba SD2300 because it has the most features found. I compared it's Colorstream to Progressive Scan on higher priced models and found very little differance. This is a great picture. The unit is loaded with features: 1. Extremely easy to set up 2. Really cool Light Machine feature, that can be used during CD playback-It's like your very own Lazer Show, with patterns you can change and that vary with the music. My grandkids love the Light Machine. It's great on the large screen TV. 3. The zoom-in and varied angle features, as well as the best forward and reverse that you can imagine. 4. Nuon technology. Toshiba, as well as other manufacturers, are planning to add additional elements for use on the Nuon machines. Toshiba has a fantastic support group, that will personally answer any questions you may have on the Nuon technology, games available, where to locate games, how Nuon technology is planning to connect through the internet in the future and any problems you may have. This is one piece of equipment, that takes the place of five. This DVD player does need to be positioned in a place where it "Won't be Bumped," as that can cause the picture to break up momemtarily, into those little square pixels. This has'nt happened for me, since I put it onto a stable entertainment center.

This is even better than sd2200: they trashed one DVD tray, so SD2300 has only one. Who needs two trays anyway? Maybe some people, but I personally would trade the extra tray for more features. That is what Toshiba has done!

Key points that distinguish this player from others: ...

1. NUON processor: besides improving DVD features and qualities this processor will let you play simple games (when they are actually released)

2. 16x zoom: sd2200 had only 4x zoom

3. reverse playback

4. Virtual light machine produces visual effects on your TV when you play CD.

I would highly recommend this player (pay attention though to the short warranty)

I replaced an older Toshibs DVD player with the Nuon SD2300, and I like it a lot. As advertised, fast and slow, forward and reverse work smothly -- without jerkiness, pixelization or loss of image. The image seemed clearer than the older player produced.

The zoom feature is as smooth as glass. You can smoothly zoom in and out. When you zoom in, a rectangle indicating full image size is displayed, along with a smaller rectangle inside it, to indicate the degree of magnification. The rectangle appears as 4 lines in the uper left of the screen. It goes away after a few seconds. You can use the remote "joystick" to pan around, and the two rectangles reappear as a guide.

I set my default mode to 4:3 (no letterbox) and, very nicely, it zoomed a letterbox movie to exactly fill the screen vertically. Evidently, it can detect the black bars and zoom them off the screen. If you want letterbox, it will of course display the full image width. 16:9 is also supported.

It is easer to navigate and select 5.1 audio than with other DVD players I've used. There are other features, like multiple angles all being displayed on one screen, that I haven't tested. There's also a strobe mode where successive frames are displayed in a 2x3 layout. Again, works as advertised.

The Audio Visualization feature is a strange bird. You have a rather limited number of visualizations to select from -- seems to be about 8. They are not very imiginative. The visualizatilon add-on's I've seen for MP3 PC software are orders of magnitude more inventive, interesting, suprising, and more detailed. But as a CD player screen saver, so to speak, the SD2300's visualization is more than OK.

Nuon games were not available when I got it. Th Samsung Nuon DVD player evidently includes a game pad. You have to buy one separately for the Toshiba.

All in all, I like the SD2300 very much and would recommend it to anyone who wants more than simple, single-speed playback. If you like to move forward or reverse, fast and slow, like a tape but with a continual image display, this player can't be beat.

The most impressive feature of Toshiba's SD-2300 is the absolutely GORGEOUS picture it creates on my old 27-inch TV set (with S-video input). Blacks are black, brights are bright, colors are vibrant. This player makes even the worst of DVDs look beautiful. And, of course, the audio (through my TV's speakers) is excellent also. Another great feature is the ZOOM, which will allow you to make widescreen discs fill the entire screen with minimal loss of picture quality. Image Capture allows you to create a `wallpaper' of sorts by saving an image from the movie of your choice to display as the player's background picture (sure beats the plain gray or blue screen). NUON allows you to play video games (like The Next Tetris, which was included with my player) on your SD-2300 either with the remote, or a NUON gamepad (sold separately). Unfortunately, there are currently only a handful of NUON games on the market, and the graphics are not even close to PlayStation 2's. Along with all of these good points, however, there are a couple of drawbacks... I have noticed an occasional minor disturbance in the picture with this player. On the average of once every other movie played, a small area of the picture will `break up' into little blocks (or `pixels') for just a split second, then return to normal (this does *not* seem to be due to dirt on the discs). I did some checking, and learned that many SD-2300 owners have experienced this same problem. Also, two movies I watched suddenly froze for a few seconds (*not* on a layer change), and then continued playing. These glitches -- IF they occur -- will bother some people more than others. For me, they are not a big deal when I consider how terrific the picture looks 99.9 percent of the time.

I bought this because several on-line reviews rated it very highly for the price. I have had it for about a month and am stunned by the visual quality. I can't say much for the audio (no receiver, just TV :( ). All discs I have played have had ZERO trouble, just pop it in and play it. I highly recommend this product.

My wife had a deal at Bloomingdales: "Spend [x amount of money] get this [Toshiba SD2300] DVD player for [y amoiunt of dollars]." So we did, and I got the player.

I was told that the Toshiba players were good, and at the [money] I spent, I figured if I was wrong, then so what, at least I got a good price on my first DVD.

Well, the good news is that the player is really good, with excellent picture, sound quality, and features.

I had planned to buy a Toshiba, and when I saw the deal, I jumped on it. At the price it is offered at now, it is still a great deal.

Anyone who buys this player is likely to enjoy it. I got lucky with the Bloomingdales' deal.

This DVD player was exactly what I was looking for.