Customer Reviews

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

5 star:		(8)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

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??

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

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.

I have no complaints about the quality of the LCD screen, probably the best available on a portable player. Believe it or not, I prefer watching DVDs on this device than on my CRT TV set.

The problem here is that everything else about this DVD player is really bad.

It's really thick and heavy. Barely portable. The smallest Sony Vaio notebook weighs the same as this DVD monstrosity and is a lot thinner. Although the LCD on this is actually better for watching DVDs.

When you turn the DVD player off, it loses it's place in the DVD and then you have to waste a lot of time figuring out how to get back to where you left off. This is pretty pathetic. Surely it doesn't take much battery power, if any, to have one little memory chip keep track of where you were on the DVD while the power is turned off.

Another lousy feature, shared with all other portable DVD players I've seen, is that the fast foward button does double duty as the move to next scene button. Thus if you want to fast forward, but forget to hold down long enough, ZAP, you've lost your place. It comes with a remote control which has the proper buttons, but it seems pretty dumb to have a remote control for a device you're suppose to use on your lap or on a table directly in front of you. All the controls you need should be directly on the player, not on a remote control you can easily lose.

Finally, when do you get the fast forward mode, if you fast forward, or rewind, at any faster than 2X speed, what you see on the screen does not match where the thing is actually going to go to when you push the play button again.

It's too bad that there is no quality in the portable DVD player market. Toshiba has a new unit out, the P2900, but it looks identical to this model so it probably has all of the same flaws.

This is an exceptional player. Easy to use. Many great features. Lightweight. Matches my experience of other Toshiba products. I recommend it.

I had this DVD player for a few months. We really got our use out of it. It has great features, options, picture, sound (in comparrison with other units), etc. I had no complaints about it. However, I started noticing after about a month that the unit would turn itself on while it was plugged in charging the battery, even with the unit closed. The only way to get it to stop was to unplug it completely and take the battery off. Which was fine if you were done charging it.... Then, after about 1 month of that happening it would be playing a movie and the power would just turn off. I would turn it back on, try to find the place in the movie we were watching and continue and it would be fine. Then after appx. another month it just started to turn itself off and it wouldn't turn back on, not with the power cord, the battery, the remote, nothing would work. Then the next day you would try it and it would power up just fine. All I can say is THANK GOD I BOUGHT THE WARRANTY! They told me that they don't carry this model anymore and they are replacing it with anything else of my choice.... now I have to figure out something else to get! It took days of researching this one!

I love this product. I would highly recommend it. Havent had a problem yet

Great product. Best portable dvd I have seen and a fantastic price.
Delivered in a timely manner and well packaged.

DVD's would skip and then lock up every single time I used the player. Finally it quit working altogether about 2 weeks after I bought it!

WELL, I WANT TO BE POSITIVE FIRST OFF, BY SAYING THIS PLAYER HAD THE NICEST PICTURE OF OF THE MANY I VIEWED, I DIDNT MIND THE SLIGHTLY LARGER SIZE AND WEIGHT, SINCE I FELT IT WAS BUILT MORE OUT OF METAL, THAN PLASTIC,...IT HAD NICE FEATURES AND GREAT VIEWING ANGLES....NOW, THE NOT SO GREAT. I BOUGHT THIS PLAYER BRAND NEW IN NOV.2007...I ALWAYS TREAT MY THINGS WITH KID GLOVES, AND SO IT STILL LOOKS "OUT OF THE BOX"..NOW HERES WHAT BOTHERS ME..THE DISPLAY WENT OUT..NOW YOUR TALKING ABOUT 100 MOVIES WENT THROUGH THIS PLAYER, AT MAYBE AN AVERAGE OF 2 HRS EA=200HRS PLAYING TIME.THE MANUAL SAYS THE HIGH RESOLUTION DISPLAY HAS AN AVERAGE LIFE OF APPROX. 10,000 HRS...I AM GETTING TO A POINT IN MY LIFE WHERE IT DOSENT MATTER THE BRAND, OR NAME, NOTHING LASTS...I HAVE A CALL IN TO TOSHIBA TO SEE ABOUT GETTING IT REPAIRED...NOW A FINAL OPEN SURVEY...HOW MANY OF YOU THINK ITS GOING TO COST ABOUT THE SAME TO GET IT REPAIRED AS IT WOULD FOR ME TO THROW IT AWAY AND BUY A NEW ONE?...SIGNED, HAPPY WHILE IT LASTED