Toshiba Sd-3990 Divx Pal/ntsc DVD Player

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Product Details

• Item Weight: 12 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 12 pounds
• ASIN: B000EPTEE4
• Item model number: SD-3990, SD3990
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (87 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #28,841 in Electronics (See Bestsellers in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 1, 2001

Product Description

Product Description

The SD3990 features ColorStream Pro Progressive Scan Component video outputs for enhanced color purity and image detail. DivX Home Theater Certification allows playback of DivX, AVI and MPEG4 (.ASF) compressed files stored on CD-R/RW. There's a JPEG Photo Viewer, and you can also play WMA and MP3 files you've burned to CD-R/RW discs.# Digital Cinema Progressive Scan (3:2 Pulldown) # Colorstream Pro Component output # Plays any region PAL or NTSC DVD from regions 0-6 including RCE/REA movies # This player does not need a multi-system TV or a external video converter. # Built-in 16MB PAL to NTSC video converter allows playback of PAL movies on a NTSC TV. Basically this DVD player will play any region DVD movie on an American TV without any extra equipment, even RCE and REA movies. # High video quality! This model has a 10-Bit, 54 mhz Video Digital/Analog Converter # Lifetime warranty on our modifications: We totally stand behind the DVD players we sell. We guarantee that your code free player will play any region DVD from any country in the World. If your DVD player ever becomes defective we will fix it for free! (See Full Details) # Guaranteed to play all old, current and future DVD movies including DVDs that are RCE/REA coded. # Auto sensing region code selection # Plays DVD, Divx, Audio CD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, Audio CD, MP-3 and WMA on CD-R/CD-RW # JPEG Digital PhotoViewer # Digital Cinema Progressive (3:2 Pulldown) # Video Black Level Expansion and PLUGE # 3D-DNR (Digital Noise Reduction) # Dolby® Digital and dts® Digital Outputs # 10-Bit, 54 mhz Video D/A Converter # 24-Bit/192 kHz PCM Audio Compatibility Modified from region 1 to play any region code

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

104 of 106 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Region Free DVD Player which can play Divx, May 16, 2006

By	J Smith "J smith" (San Jose, CA) - See all my reviews

First of all, let me say that this unit is very well worth the money. As "just a DVD player" I give it FIVE over FIVE points (or ten/ten if you wish).

The unit comes as Region Free DVD Player. Professionally modified to play any region out of the box. This feature makes it most versatile player as this player can play any region 1,2,3,4,5,6 PAL or NTSC on regular American TV just out of the Box It just works.
Good things:
it can play NTSC and PAL DVD, VCD. and when it plays PAL VCD, it will fit the image so that the image is not out of proper aspect ratio. You can even easily choose the left or right audio channel which is typical of VCD. Further, this DVD player can play DivX, MPG, mp3, jpg. It can play DivX with subtitles. When fast forwarding, it can go up to 30x and 100x (seems like not 100x but maybe 50x). When you step frame by frame, it works flawlessly. It's a great player for the price, considering all the media it plays (ours played DVD+RW too) and the quality of sound and picture it produces.

As a straight DVD player, this player excels. It has an absolutely brilliant progressive picture, with rich colors, and no prog-scan artifacts whatsoever. There are also a couple of nice digital touch-up controls, sharpness and brightness which can come in handy to boost dark images.

As a DIVX/Xvid player, also excellent. Highly compatible with divx 4/5 and vxid, not at all with divx 3.11 or ms mp4 v2 - according to my testing. plays ac3 audio on these files too. Interesting problem with divx subtitles. Very compatible, yet places them in the middle of the screen, which is weird, but oddly workable. The menu system for avi files is intuitive, but only captures the first 16 characters of the filename.

As a dvd-r player, it's also solid. It has played all media I've thrown at it (-r, -rw). The only problem is that it's picky about flaws. In fact, I have dozens of labeled dvd-r's which will break-up and not play past a certain point. unfortunate, but after I removed the labels (not an easy process) they played to the end.

Now for my favorite feature, the coup de grace: auto aspect-ratio. I have a 16:9 set. When I enable this feature (default), anamorphic titles will fill the screen, 4:3 titles will be in the middle (though zoomed in ever-so-slightly) and non-anamorphic letterbox titles will be zoomed in to fill the width of the 16:9. It makes this adjustment for dvd and divx content. And it gets it right 95% of the time - the other 5% you can adjust manually.

65 of 66 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Costeffective capable international dvd player, August 13, 2006

By	Thomas Hempel (Redwood City, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This is a very nice small, cheap, functional Toshiba DVD player that has been modified to play PAL and NTSC dvds irrespective of their region encoding. It does all these things perfectly, and produces high quality output. A very useful product if you want to play Asian or European discs in the US.

45 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Multi-Region without the hassle, June 26, 2006

By	Paul Stratter (Mount Laurel, NJ United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a solid DVD player without all the bells and whistles. I purchased it specifically for its multi-region capabilities. There are websites a plenty that tell you the secrets to unlocking the codes on almost any DVD player, however you do this at your own peril as I rendered my previous player completely useless by trying a hack. This player has been modified by a third party to achieve multi region and comes with its own guaranty. Simply, it works. Pop any DVD in from any region and it accepts and plays it.