Customer Reviews

Toshiba SD-6915 5-Disc Progressive-Scan DVD Player

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4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(7)

 

 

I've owned this player for a week now, and it's terribly buggy.

It won't turn on if it's set to output in progressive scan. It has annoying 1/4 second audio drops if you watch a DTS movie. It's response time to buttons pushed on the panel or remote is miserable. The ergonomics of the remote is horrible. It's picture isn't that good: http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/cgi-bin/shootout.cgi?function=search&articles=all&type=&manufacturer=1&maxprice=0&deInt=0&mpeg=0#ToshibaSD-6915

It'd be nice to have a working SACD/DVD-A/DVD-V changer, but this aint it.

Toshiba really created a more than lacklustre unit here. Just try to get it to play one CD then move on to the next one. When you play a disc, at the end it just stops. You MUST change to the next disc by pressing a button on the unit or the remote. The tech support admits that the unit was not designed to move from disc to disc except manually. You can do random play and get it to move from one disc to another, but that is the only way. In addition, you MUST have this unit connected to a TV at all times in order for anything to make sense. The cursor buttons do double duty, so for some functions you must press the menu button before pausing or stopping a CD in play. I would NOT recommend this to anyone. Just buy a single disc player, and you are better off.

The piss poor remote layout and user interface is why everyone else is complaining about this DVD-player. Toshiba engineers must have got bored with the older layout and decided to improve it by using submenu to control things. I previous owned a Toshiba sd-740 and I love the picture images and ease of use of the remote. Issues of the layout is the small IR range of the remote, to get it to work you got to point at it straight and level toward the right side of the machine front panel. To bookmark a chapter, find a chapter, you got to hit the submenu and go from there, how inconvenient not to be place simple commends on the remote. To forward and slow backward you have to press and hold down the next and back chapter buttons respectively. What happened to the other length of the movies options display?

Other issues:
The 5 discs unit here is twice as deep as a single player unit. You have to manually disc skip instead of each tray having its own distinguish buttons. Like the other reviewer stated the disc stop per the end of each disc, not automatically changing.

Images quality:
The DVD images are just as good as other consumer level player made by Toshiba. I can't really compare this player images to other images from $200 plus DVD-players. But I can say the color saturation and smoother progressive scan is a lot better then Panasonic or JVC consumer-level DVD players priced similarly. The sound quality is fine if you hock it up to a good receiver. DTS sound find also. Must have a HDTV ready set to use progessive scan.

I say avoid this player since most people will find it too frustrating to use, but if you use it to just watch movies without fiddling around the images quality is fine. I give it a 4.5-stars there.

I bought this DVD player 1 year ago and the laser tracking went out, meaning that no disc can be read - CD or DVD. This is the main component to a DVD player and to repair it costs more than it would to purchase a new machine. I called Toshiba to complain as I believe anything of quality should last more than 1 year. The would not replace the item or even cover the cost of repair. I will not purchase Toshiba again.

I initially bought this player specifically for my Buffy/Angel addiction. Big mistake - it won't access the scripts on some seasons via the chapter skip keys, and the lack of shuttle keys on the remote doesn't offer the usual alternative. This will matter to people who watch any dvd series proiduced by TCFHE, as their in-house production values continue to fall.

That was just the start of what's wrong with this player. It won't play my homemade VCDs or DVDs (which all of my other players handled without trouble until they crapped out). It has no resume feature, and many times the carosel returns to disc 1 after shutting off. The carosel loads backwards, from disc 5 to disc 1, which is annoying when trying to retrieve discs to put away.

On the plus side, it does play mp3 data discs which aren't finalized.

The component outputs on my SD-6915 don't work. I've tried three different cables and... no component video.

Worse yet, I bought my SD-6915 to be a high-res audio player, but it only plays DVD-Audio discs in Dolby Digital; I don't have the "Advanced Resolution Surround" options I should have for an DVD-Audio disks (and do have on my older DVD-Audio player).

The remote the unit comes with is a crime against nature. The menu setup is obnoxious.

On the plus side, it's just fine for playing SACDs. Which is something, I guess.

What kind of moron designs a 5-disc changer that WON'T PLAY ALL FIVE DISCS without pushing the "disc skip" button to go to the next one?

Terrible on-screen display. You can't use this as a CD player unless you connect it to a TV, too.

If Toshiba had any ethics, these things would be recalled and we'd all get our money back. Note that there is a firmware upgrade available through Toshiba, but only for products with certain serial numbers, and then only if you badger them enough. The firmware upgrade doesn't fix either of the two problems I've listed.

This player is the biggest piece of CRUD I have ever seen. It locks up, the picture goes in and out and the remote is a train wreck! We had another Toshiba player for years and it was a workhorse, but it finally met its match (my 2 year old) so we bought this model and we hate it! There has to be a better model and Toshiba usually makes such great stuff, so this is a bit of a disappointment.

It is not easy to operate and the reaction time is really slow. Pay more money and get a quality product.

I own 2 of these units and seem to be experiencing the review about the 1/10 second audio drop in the DTS mode ,have called Toshiba they say it is in my ONKYO 502 a/v yet i called onkyo and they are saying it is not the receiver ,plus i have 2 of these players and my other is hooked up to a panasonic sa-he9 a/v and the player does the same thing ,it seems to play great in dolby digital 5.1 and the DTS seems to be just a slight thing i am still trying other set ups .I would like to talk to Jon who wrote the only other review if you read this please e-mail if you will i would appreciate it .thank you freebird771@camden.net this seems to be the only way i could contact you not real computer literate.thanks

SORT OF A GOOD PRODUCT BUT SLOW RESPONCE REMOTE & UNIT...I SENT IT BACK AND ORDERED A SONY 5 DISC...ITS GREAT AND AN UPCONVERTER ALSO 1080i cool