Toshiba SD-4109X 6-Disc DVD Player

by Toshiba

Product Details

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• Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 17.2 x 5.1 inches ; 15.4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 19 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B00000J3OL
• Item model number: SD-4109X
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #212,000 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Toshiba's SD4109X 6-Disc Carousel DVD Player brings versatility and ease of use to the forefront of DVD technology. Just load it up with your six favorite discs--be they DV, CD, or CD-Video--and you have whole day's worth of audio-video entertainment. As an added convenience, you can switch discs without interrupting the current playing selection.

The 10-bit digital-to-analog system--four times more effective than conventional methods--transforms 8-bit data to 10 bits, thus preventing critical signal loss and ensuring superb reproduction and fidelity of highly detailed images. The ColorStream component video output enhances color purity and reduces moiré patterns and other NTSC artifacts.

Audio features include built-in Dolby digital decoding with 5.1-channel outputs; 24-bit, 96 kHz audio resolution; and Spatializer N-2-2 Virtual Surround Sound. You'll hear expansive wrap-around sound effects and a solid center channel image for stable, accurate dialogue reproduction--all from your hi-fi system or stereo television set.

Other features include an intuitive remote, a wide array of controls such as four-power picture zoom and icon-based onscreen display. Special play options include multicamera angle select, multilanguage select, and multisubtitle select.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

46 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great at some things, poor at too many others., June 22, 2000

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DVD Player (Memphis, TN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Toshiba SD-4109X 6-Disc DVD Player (Electronics)

Having used the 4109X for the past six months, I must say that I'm disappointed with the product and would recommend buying from a different manufacturer. (I've heard that Onkyo makes these for Toshiba, so watch out for their products as well!)

First, the good: Picture quality is fabulous, and so is sound reproduction. The "enhanced black" mode makes the picture especially rich while colors remain vibrant. The carousel feature is great, especially if you have kids -- you can jump from Tarzan to Pocahontas without putting the baby down (and without letting your older ones put fingerprints all over your discs!)

Now for the bad: 1) The 4109 gets confused when switching from CDs to DVDs, and I've frequently had to shut it down and restart to get discs to play. 2) Sometimes it thinks it's playing a DVD even thought it's not, and at those times it won't let me swap a disc out of the carousel. (I've heard a number of other users complain about these same functional items, so I'm sure it's not just my unit that has problems.) 3) The carousel may be quiet, but the unit itself hums loudly during playback. This is very annoying if you don't have your unit in a closed cabinet. 4) The remote is HORRIBLE. True, it is loaded with features, but the layout is illogical and the small buttons are not friendly to anyone with normal-sized fingers. Plus, it lacks backlighting -- just try finding those tiny function buttons in the dark. 5) The lack of random multidisc playback is annoying, but can be overcome by programming the tracks you want to hear. (And no, it's not because the machine can't distinguish between CDs and DVDs as someone wrote below, as the machine does have a "CD only" mode that ignores DVDs during playback.)

With its great picture quality, this could easily have been a five-star product. Adjusting for Toshiba's spotty quality control and that darned remote, it only gets three. As such, I'd probably go with the 3-disc Pioneer or the 5-disc Sony instead.

34 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome sound and clarity, December 10, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Toshiba SD-4109X 6-Disc DVD Player (Electronics)

The Toshiba 4109X is an awesome piece of machinery! The picture clarity is unparalleled and the 5.1 audio outputs really make the sound incredible. You can change discs while you are watching or listening to another one, which comes in handy at parties where you want continuous music. I highly recommend this product to anyone who is interested in upgrading to a home theater system!

32 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome piece of equipment, April 5, 2000

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Marcus Taddwilliams (Los Angeles, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Toshiba SD-4109X 6-Disc DVD Player (Electronics)

I just recieved this DVD player and I LOVE IT! I bought this player for the 6 disc changer and HDCD feature. I also own the 2109 model and was please with that one but the movie collection has grown and I got tired of getting off the couch to change movies. The carousel is very quiet, the picture is excellent, and the additional operating features are great. Now for my take on this random play controversy. DVD players are first and foremost a DVD player that happens to play audio CDs. DVD movies load up into the player while audio CDs do not. Once a DVD movie is loaded it must play that awful WARNING screen first and any other thing the maker of the DVD wishes you to see. So with that said, every time the disc would change on random mode while its playing DVDs you would first have to see the dreaded WARNING screens, which basically ruins the random play feature. Now maybe one day in the future they will have a different random play mode for DVDs and CDs, but thats not the case now. So I hope that kinda solves the random play mystery for some of you, others will just never understand it. (Maybe they should buy a dedicated multiple CD disc changer)

Oh yeah this changer also plays CD-Video disc, but dont think you can transfer your movies from VHS to CD-Video and play it on this player since it does'nt play CD-R disc.

Ok, I'm done.