Toshiba SD-4000 Progressive Scan DivX Certified DVD Player

by Toshiba

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 2.4 x 17 inches ; 4.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 5 pounds
• Shipping: This item can only be shipped to the 48 contiguous states. We regret it cannot be shipped to APO/FPO, Hawaii, Alaska, or Puerto Rico.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B000MXB0TK
• Item model number: SD-4000
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #74,759 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

Featuring progressive Scan 3:2 pulldown digital cinema progressive playback. Multiformat playback capability now includes DVD-Video/CD/CD-R/CD-RW/VCD/DVD-R and ColorStream Pro® Progressive Scan Component Video Outputs enhances color purity and image detail.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Ok player - has Audio/Video sync issues, April 18, 2007

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John Stoffel - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Toshiba SD-4000 Progressive Scan DivX Certified DVD Player (Electronics)

I bought this unit to replace an old Panasonic DVD player which had a problem with the slide out tray rarely staying out, so we were always fighting with it.

The toshiba won because of the price, component outputs, size (it's nice an small height wise) and the remote looked to be ok from the picture on the box. Plus I work for a Toshiba subsidiary. :]

Overall, I'm happy with the unit, though I do have some issues.

Minor: It's slow to powerup and respond. If the unit is off and you hit the 'eject' button on the player (not on the remote) it takes around 10 seconds for it to work. I find this annoying, esp when I'm in a rush in the morning to mail a DVD back to netflicks on my way to work. *grin*

Minor: The layout of buttons on the remote is not ideal. When will companies take a look at the TiVo remote and replicate it's wonderful layout and design features? The remote is certainly useable, but those buttons you use the most are NOT highlighted in any useful way. At least they're grouped in the center mostly, where your fingers fall when you pickup the remote.

Major: For whatever reason, about an hour into some movies, though not all, the video/audio sync starts to drift apart from each other. This drives me crazy since I don't hear as well as my wife and I seem to watch lips and notice if there's a disconnect. I'm hoping there will be some sort of upgrade available for this unit, but I'm not holding my breath.

Stopping and restarting the playing of the movie seems to fix the issue, but not completely. My old panasonic never had this issue.

I have NOT had a chance to try playing CDROMs with MP3s or DiVX movies, but others seem to think it works just fine.

Putting in a disc of jpegs works ok. A bit clunkly, but it's not really anyone's fault since they need to handle a whole bunch of directory layouts, which is tough.

Overall, if the Audio/Video sync problem wasn't there, I'd be happy, esp for the price. But the sync issue is going to bug me I'm sure.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for standard def TV, February 17, 2007

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D. Marley - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Toshiba SD-4000 Progressive Scan DivX Certified DVD Player (Electronics)

Another solid entry from Toshiba. Very stable picture on standard def TV. Build quality a little better compared to SD3990. No issues so far playing my recorded media CD/R, DVD-R, DVD+R. Again, pleased with picture quality. Moire, jaggies and stair step issues are minimal.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A superb value in DVD players, March 5, 2007

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C. Petit (Northeastern US) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Toshiba SD-4000 Progressive Scan DivX Certified DVD Player (Electronics)

I purchased this to replace my previous DVD player (a Panasonic turntable) because, frankly, I never used the turntable functionality and I wanted to be able to play DivX format movies.

I've had the unit for a few days and like what I see so far. It plays many different DivX format movies flawlessly (the filtering removes all blockiness I saw on my PC), whether they are PAL-encoded or NTSC-encoded (although PAL encoded DivX files fill a box in the center of the screen).

Also, the player easily browses through music CDs with MP3 and WMA format music. The browse window looks like a simplified Windows Explorer, so you can see the names and folders containing your music. Unfortunately, longer names get cut off because the lettering is fairly large.

It also will automatically resize any DVD to fit your screen, and handles both widescreen and standard format TVs. It can also output standard or progressive video (the latter is smoother but needs a higher end TV to support it). The resizing feature is a great feature with smaller TVs (i.e. <40 inch), or if you don't have a 16:9 aspect ratio TV.

NOTE: if you plan to use Composite video, hook up the DVD player using S-video, then switch the DVD player to use Composite video (it is not automatic). You will also need to purchase your own composite video cables (the box comes with RCA stereo connectors and an S-video connector).

In addition, regular DVDs play well on the player. The only glitch I encountered there was The Princess Bride special edition didn't seem to revert back to widescreen presentation when I reset it in the DVD player's menu.

In terms of features missing---this player does not upconvert movies (i.e. if you have an HD TV, it won't try to generate a larger picture).

Basically, if you're looking for a versatile, multi-format DVD player, this is an affordable, well-performing player. It does have its glitches but they seem to be minor. Overall, this is a great value.