Toshiba SD-P2800 Portable DVD Player with 9-Inch Widescreen LCD

by Toshiba

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 14.8 x 5.5 x 9.2 inches ; 7 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 8 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000BXJM0K
• Item model number: SD-P2800
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #94,828 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 27, 2005

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Take your favorite entertainment on the road with you and keep your kids entertained during long car trips with the slim-profile Toshiba SD-P2800 portable DVD player with 9-inch LCD screen with 180-degree flip and swivel functionality. Its active matrix TFT LCD has a 480 x 234-pixel resolution with a 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio for watching movies in the format they were made to be watched, built-in stereo speakers, and a single headphone jack. You can view movies on an external TV set via the component video output, which provides optimal connection for watching progressive scan DVDs. It also offers AV and S-Video output connections for TV sets that don't have a component input. And it provides Dolby Digital surround sound decoding via the digital coaxial audio output connection.

It includes dual headphone jacks so you can share your movie experience with a partner, a rechargable battery with up to 4 hours of battery life, and a cigarette lighter adapter for powering the player while in the car. In addition to DVD movie and CD audio discs, it's also compatible with DVD-R, CD-R/RW and VCD discs. You can play discs burned with MP3 and WMA digital audio files, and it's also DivX Home Theater Certified--meaning that it's compatible with video burned to disc using both the DivX video format. You can also view photo slideshows from Kodak Picture CDs with JPEG images. The integrated multi-format memory card slot is compatible with Secure Digital (SD), MultiMedia (MMC), Memory Stic, and XD Picture Card formats, enabling you to view JPEG images and unencrypted MP3/WMA audio.

With the Digital Picture Zoom interactive feature, you can select an area of the picture you want to zoom in on and magnify it. It can also be used to expand letterbox-only films to increase the viewable area on-screen. Other convenience features include slow motion (1/8, 1/4, 1/2), parental locks, and 3D virtual surround sound. It includes both input and output composite AV jacks.

Tech Talk
DivX is a compressed digital video format (like MP3) that's based on the MPEG-4 video compression standard. It can reduce the video from a DVD (MPEG-2) to around 10 percent of its original size while still retaining good video and audio quality, enabling you to store several two-hour length movies on burned DVD media.

Component video (also called Y/Pb/Pr) features a three-jack video input, which provides separate connections for luminance (Y), blue color difference (PB) and red color difference (PR). This results in increased bandwidth for color information, resulting in a more accurate picture with clearer color reproduction and less bleeding than you would get with S-Video or composite (RCA yellow video plug) connections. You will need a separate RCA left/right audio cable for sound.

What's in the Box
Portable DVD player, remote control (with battery), car power adapter, AC adapter, AV cable, rechargable battery, printed operating instructions

Product Description

9" PORTABLE DVD PLAYER

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Player I've Seen...Great Picture!, May 19, 2006

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DaddyGuy (Redwood City, Ca USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Toshiba SD-P2800 Portable DVD Player with 9-Inch Widescreen LCD (Electronics)

I have tried a few Portables...the Philips 10" player, the Toshiba SD-P2700, and a 5" Panasonic player over the last few years, and this is the player I have finally decided to keep. It has the best viewing angle I have ever seen, which has alway been a big complaint for me....(great for watching with 2 people). Used it on my last vacation and it was perfect....just the right size for portability, and a great picture for a 9" screen. This really is an amazing screen, with great clarity and color for such a small player. This is Toshibas best. They finally figured out a way to make the screen viewing angle problem a thing of the past. Only complaint is the speakers, but I have never found a player that could figure out how to make a small player sound halfway decent. This one does OK in that dept., but with 2 headphone jacks, it isn't a big deal. Also has a Photo card slot, and an A/V INPUT.....a very nice plus. It is a great player that I would highly recommend.
Update - 3/07:
After living with this player for quite a while, I have to say that I am even more convinced about giving a 5 star rating.... this is one heck of a portable player.....we have used it quite a bit, and marvel at the picture quality .....that is what a portable is all about...right? Picture quality....viewing enjoyment when away from your home system.....Toshiba is one of the best portables out there....and even though it is a little pricey compared to most portable players, you do get what you pay for. Quality, durability, and just the right size for us when travelling. Need I say more??

15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome Player, April 24, 2006

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Jasmine Pike "Princess Jasmine" (Seattle,Washington) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Toshiba SD-P2800 Portable DVD Player with 9-Inch Widescreen LCD (Electronics)

i have had this player for about 3 weeks and i got tosay it is awesome. the battery life on mine is 5 hours before it needs to be recharged.

i also like the screen size. i did plunty of reserch before i bought this player.

its easy to use and i like the fact you get a car cord with it.

i would recommend this player to anyone looking into buying it.

i also recommend if you are like me and want more portable time to buy from one of toshibas suppliers a extra battery or 2 witch costs $100 per battery.

i also think this is the best player on the market.

Thanks for reading

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fine player, February 21, 2007

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A. Smith (St. Louis MO) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Toshiba SD-P2800 Portable DVD Player with 9-Inch Widescreen LCD (Electronics)

The display is incredible. The animated movies that the kids mostly watch come across the screen with remarkable detail.

On the down side: With the speakers on the side of the screen (not below), finding a case/car mounting system that would accomodate its width was difficult. I did finally find one at Bestbuy that only took slight modifications. As other have said, this player does not resume play after returning power to unit. So turning off the car and then returning, you start at the beginning of the show or mess with it to find where you left off. Lastly, louder volume would be nice.

Still a nice player with a nice slim design. The battery is designed nice too (good for 3+ hours new). I mention the negatives, because they are the main reason I look at reviews.