Toshiba SD-43HT Progressive-Scan DVD Home Theater System

by Toshiba

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 14.3 x 14.2 x 3 inches ; 35 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 44 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: B0000AJ5BC
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (43 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #152,003 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

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Enjoy rich, full-bodied surround sound from a stylish, slim-design system with Toshiba's SD-43HT. The system consists of an audio/video receiver coupled with a single-disc DVD player, a 5.1-channel speaker package, and a powered subwoofer. The DVD player is equipped with a progressive-scan output for superlative images on high-definition and HD-ready televisions, and in addition to full surround processing the system also plays your homemade CDs filled with MP3, WMA, and JPEG sound and image files.

Whether your living room is currently home to an HDTV or you're merely thinking of "someday," the SD-43HT's ColorStream Pro DVD player stands ready to deliver the full potential of DVDs. Progressive scanning, referred to as 480p for the number of horizontal lines that compose the video image, creates a picture using twice the scan lines of a conventional DVD picture, providing higher resolution and sharper images while eliminating nearly all motion artifacts. Composite- and S-video outputs bring compatibility with nearly any television.

The SD-43HT also features Toshiba's Digital Cinema Progressive feature (3:2 pulldown). DVD mastering introduces a common distortion when adjusting 24 frames-per-second movies to 30 fps video; 3:2 pulldown digitally corrects this distortion, removing the redundant information to display a film-frame-accurate picture.

The speaker package features four satellite speakers with 3-inch drivers (front and surround left/right, powered by 50 watts apiece), a larger center-channel speaker (for handling most dialogue and critical sound effects, also 50 watts), and a 70-watt, 8-inch subwoofer to drive home the foundation-shaking bass effects of your favorite movies. Surround processing includes decoding of Dolby Digital, DTS, and Dolby Pro Logic II (which generates surround output from stereo sources), and an optical digital-audio output facilitates hookup with a CD recorder or alternate surround processor.

The Digital Photo Viewer lets you see digital JPEG photographs on any television; an intuitive onscreen display helps you customize slideshows with a few simple clicks of the remote. You can zoom, rotate, and pan the photos, as well as set the actual viewing time of each slide. Other features include black-level expansion (which enables the DVD player to output a 0 IRE signal for richer, deeper black tones than standard players), picture zoom, two auxiliary video inputs (one with S-video) for your VCR or other devices, and a preset remote control. The color-coded connections add convenience and make set-up a snap.

What's in the Box
DVD player/receiver, 5 satellite speakers, 1 subwoofer, AM loop and FM antennas, remote control, user's manual, stereo analog audio interconnect/composite-video cable.

Customer Reviews

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45 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars High Quality, Great Price, August 7, 2003

By 

Alex Carter (Des Moines, IA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Toshiba SD-43HT Progressive-Scan DVD Home Theater System (Electronics)

After doing a considerable amount of research on 'home theatre in a box' systems, I decided to pick the Toshiba SD-43HT system. My budget was between $250-$300. This was actually priced lower than that, so that was a bonus. More money to spend on DVDs!

First - the DVD playback. This is progresive scan, and I have an HDTV. My old DVD player which I've had for a couple of years was not progressive scan, so I was really looking forward to seeing what the big deal was with progressive scan.

Wow!

After I got the systen set up I popped in "The Fast and the Furious" and cued up the first race scene. The picture was amazing! It is worth noting that I also picked up some Monster Component cables which should also be helping in giving a great picture. The picture was razor sharp and the color was very vivd and true to life. Remember when you first switched over from VHS to DVD? That is what it is like jumping from "regular DVD" to progressive scan on this system. Wow.

Next - the sound. This system comes with 5 satellite speakers plus a subwoofer. The sub is not powered, it is passive and gets 70 watts. The satellites are 50 watts/channel. So the sound system comes in at under 400 watts. Most systems in this price range come in around 500, so it isn't as powerful. However, this sytem has excellent sound. Again, the race scene in TF&F looked excellent, and the surround sound was awesome. Very clean, pure digital sound. The subwoofer boomed, and the satellites held there own. It is plenty of power for me. You probably aren't going to "feel" the sub like you would on a high-end system, but thats ok. This system pumps out the sound very well.

I plugged my digital cable box into the DVD player/reciever and was plesantly suprised to hear very clean, clear 5.1 surround sound coming out of it. So now recgular televsion can be enjoyed in surround sound! Also, CDs sound great. It even read my MP3 Cd with no problem!

Overall I am very happy. I got what I paid for. This is not a $3,000 home theatre system. But it packs a punch for the price for sure. Definitly worth checking out.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Repair of SD-43HTSU "Hello...Protection...Goodbye", December 28, 2005

By 

John L. Addis (Beaverton OR USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Toshiba SD-43HT Progressive-Scan DVD Home Theater System (Electronics)

The Toshiba SD-43HTSU and at least one other Toshiba system has a high failure rate. The unit comes on, displays "Hello...Protection...Goodbye" and shuts off.

Search of the web and a call to Toshiba both blame the problem on C27. For those not electronically minded, that is a Capacitor number 27.

This particular capacitor is a 100uF (microfarad) with a voltage rating of 16V. I have replaced C27 with a 100uF rated at 25V on the theory that excess voltage was the problem. So far so good. The unit works again!

To replace this capacitor (which costs less than a dollar at an electronics supply store), first remove the top cover. C27 is labeled in small print on the main board (biggest and below all other boards) near the center of the instrument. You will have to remove the bottom board entirely, which looks complicated but is not really too bad. To get at the main board, and unsolder C27, you have to remove the main board.

Do not worry about getting the connectors back where they came from. They are all keyed so that they go in only one way and the semi-permanent bend in the wires makes it pretty obvious where all the connectors go and which way.

In the way is a vertical board which runs from front to back. This vertical board is also attached permanently to a 3" X 5" board attached to the rear panel via the video input and output connectors. Both boards come out together if you unfasten the 3" X 4" board from the rear panel. The vertical board makes connection to the main board in two places with edge connectors on the vertical board. Note how they fit into the main board.

Remove every screw from the rear panel except those holding the fan and those holding the antenna connectors to the rear panel.

Carefully pull out the two flat cables from the center vertical board and one between the AM/FM tuner (small board in the left rear corner of instrument) to the 3" X 5" board. One connector with individual wires connects to the DVD assembly. It is soldered to the main board, but the connector comes out easily at the DVD assembly end.

Pull the sides of the instrument apart very slightly to unsnap the rear panel from the instrument. One connector below the 3" X 5" board connects to the power supply board directly beneath the 3" X 5" board. My instrument has a toroid around that cable...yours may not.

Pull out all the connectors to the main board and remove the 6 screws holding it to the bottom of the chassis. Remove the one screw toward the front of the instrument holding the vertical board in place.

Now you can tip the main board up and get to the back. Note that the capacitor has a minus sign on it. You must replace the old capacitor in the same orientation. The minus sign points to the left of the instrument. Unsolder C27 and replace with 100uF/25V.

Be sure you have connected all the cables up again when you reassemble the unit.

The whole job should take less than an hour and it sure beats the price of the repair or shipment to Toshiba.

I am visiting in Panama at the moment and Toshiba has no repair and no warranty here.

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cheap, Effective, Outstanding!, November 4, 2003

By 

Michael Alvarez (Arlington, VA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Toshiba SD-43HT Progressive-Scan DVD Home Theater System (Electronics)

Earlier this year I was shopping around for a good surround sound system and all I could find were $800 - $1000 Sony or JVC systems at my local retailers Best Buy and Circuit City. I shopped around amazon once and found this great system for only $250! So I snagged it up fearing that it would be gone soon and it has been great. It works perfectly and sounds 10 times better than my parents JVC $1000 surround sound system. It's extremely powerful sound wise, and visually. Also music sounds great on it for parties. Also it plays every kind of cd you could ever think of: VCD, SVCD, DVD-R, MP3 etc. I suggest snagging this great deal immediatly before to many people find out about it and it's sold out. I love mine! No complaints.