Customer Reviews

Toshiba SD-5915 DVD Player

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I currently have a Toshiba TV and love it. I thought I'd purchase a Toshiba DVD player since I love my TV. I have completely wasted my money on this piece of junk. DVD's skip, remote sometimes does not respond, sometimes a DVD will freeze. I put the same DVDs in another DVD player in my bedroom and they all worked fine with no skips/freezing. As alot of the other reviewers said, I agree.....your just throwing your money away here.

I've owned a Toshiba SD-3205 for about four years and absolutely love it. However, it wouldn't play DVD-Rs so I decided to upgrade to this model. I was shocked to find that this newer model was severely lacking in comparison: You can't change discs while you're watching, the simple and great joystick-type remote was gone, the player was buggy and slower to respond, the optical audio output was gone, and you can't select a disc by number. I returned it, had the firmware upgraded on my old (but high-quality) SD-3205, and enjoy watching DVDs (and DVD-Rs) again. Sad to say it, but Toshiba really dropped the ball on this product line, especially since it started out so right.

I discounted the bad reviews on this site and bought this DVD/CD player in July. We have been using a sub fifty dollar model for a couple of years and I wanted to replace that and our CD changer with one unit. I wanted to go with Toshiba because we have a Toshiba TV, I thought we could use the new remote with the our old TV and consolidate some remotes.
The first disappointment is the remote control's layout, it is the worst. It's all most unusable.
Then 4 out of 5 DVDs played will freeze. I thought that the rented DVDs were dirty or scratched so I have taken to cleaning them before playing, but the sub fifty dollar DVD has had no problems playing the same DVDs that this player freezes.
Audio CDs play fine, CDRs will skip and pop, the same CDRs will play fine on other systems.
This is the worst purchase I have ever made. Avoid this piece of junk.

We ordered this DVD player for two reasons: the trust we had in Toshiba products (we own some others) and the great online price. The first night after installation it seemed to work fine. The next morning it played the kid?s DVD ? no problem. But the following night the Toshiba?s performance took a nosedive! The remote control became non-responsive. How can you watch TV in bed without a remote? We gave it a second chance and tried to use to the buttons on the front control panel. They stopped working, too! THEN the carousel made a loud, ugly noise and began functioning intermittently. The machine struggled to play regular CD's, which was very disappointing since we also own a 3-year-old inexpensive model DVD player that plays CD?s flawlessly. Only 24 hours after installation we packed it up to return it! We won?t give up on Toshiba products completely because of this experience, but we will be more cautious with the next purchase.

I got this to stop getting up all the time to change disks in my single DVD player. Now I'm getting up lots more trying to get this to work. Other reviews say it's slow to respond - they aren't kidding. Push "open" to access the tray and it grinds away for ten seconds deciding what to do. More often than not it'll stay closed and go back to the movie. Sometimes (not often) it freezes completely and has to restarted. Being cheap, it doesn't remember where it was and you have to scan through the movie to find your place. Also ultra susceptible to scratches/fingerprints so the picture stops and jumps frequently. Avoid like the plague.

I purchased this 5 Disc DVD player to eliminate two of my console pieces from my audio/video rack. I was hoping that this item would replace my current DVD player & my 5 disc CD player as well.

After about a month or so, I realized you are definitely getting what you pay for. When I purchased this, it was under $100. And that's exactly what it is...a $100 piece of useless electronics.

It ruined 1 of my child's favorite DVD's because the DVD somehow jumped off the spinner and got scratched while spinning on the player's inner electronics. The only way was I was able to get the DVD out of the player was to unscrew the top and remove most the of pieces to remove the DVD.

I've also had problems with skipping & many movies become "pixelated". This DVD player does not like scratches on DVD's or CD's (which caused the pixelation).

I wouldn't recommend this to anyone, and I'll will never purchase any type of Toshiba home audio/video equipment again.

I bought this DVD player brand new. I've never owned anything as buggy as this DVD player. (And indeed, it is in the design of the product because I returned 1 to the Toshiba factory for the problems it was giving me -- only to be given another one that merely gradually developed the exact same problems).
After owning my Toshiba SD-5915 for about 1.5 years now, I just don't even use it anymore because: the movies pause for about 5 seconds, 10 or more times during a single movie viewing; sometimes the movie will not finish, instead freezing up and requires being unplugged from the wall to turn the player off; the remote has few buttons left that work; the picture warps sometimes during the movie; any discs made from a computer or a recorder (like the one that I use to record TV shows) are difficult to get to work -- usually will play partially and stop or just do not start at all (and I esp. cannot rewind or fast forward these because that initiates the frozen pause I discussed above and ends the movies or home movies or whatever on these dvd's immediately.)

Overall? Toshiba damages their reputation with this dvd player. You are throwing your money away if you buy this product.

This product has always done screwy things like skipping disks and random ejects. Current problem is opening and closing without stopping. Unplugging the unit does not reset it. Looks like a dumpster product now.