Toshiba SD-2300 NUON DVD Player

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Product Details

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• Product Dimensions: 12 x 16.9 x 3.2 inches ; 6.6 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 17 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00004YMBM
• Item model number: SD2300
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #107,829 in Electronics (See Bestsellers in Electronics)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 14, 2003

Product Description

Product Description

The DS2300 is the first DVD-Video player with enhanced functionality provided the NUON processor. The NUON system is an advanced media processor that permits new features and performance capabilities never before available in a DVD-Video player. NUON enables the SD2300 to function as a complete interactive home entertainment system. NUON enhances the user interface with dazzling 3D bitmapped graphics that provide a stunning three-dimensional look and feel to the SD2300's on-screen menus, with 16 million colors, multiple overlay capability and picture-in-graphics displays. With NUON technology, the SD2300 also provides slow motion, special effects and a 16-power pixel zoom feature.The NUON platform also enables new interactive audio capabilities. For CD playback, the SD2300 features a Virtual Light Machine mode that displays stunning visuals and graphics that pulse and beat in step with the music. The SD2300 also is fully compatible with NUON-enhanced DVD movie titles. NUON-enhanced movies will have expanded viewing features including interactive menus and extra content not previously possible. With NUON, movie studios can provide value added content, HTML files, movie-based games and more.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

53 of 54 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Poor Man's Complete Home Entertainment, August 7, 2001

By A Customer

This is the best you will find, for the price. I looked at and tried out, at least 50 different DVD players. I returned two to the stores, as I was not at all happy with their performance. I settled on the Toshiba SD2300 because it has the most features found. I compared it's Colorstream to Progressive Scan on higher priced models and found very little differance. This is a great picture. The unit is loaded with features: 1. Extremely easy to set up 2. Really cool Light Machine feature, that can be used during CD playback-It's like your very own Lazer Show, with patterns you can change and that vary with the music. My grandkids love the Light Machine. It's great on the large screen TV. 3. The zoom-in and varied angle features, as well as the best forward and reverse that you can imagine. 4. Nuon technology. Toshiba, as well as other manufacturers, are planning to add additional elements for use on the Nuon machines. Toshiba has a fantastic support group, that will personally answer any questions you may have on the Nuon technology, games available, where to locate games, how Nuon technology is planning to connect through the internet in the future and any problems you may have. This is one piece of equipment, that takes the place of five. This DVD player does need to be positioned in a place where it "Won't be Bumped," as that can cause the picture to break up momemtarily, into those little square pixels. This has'nt happened for me, since I put it onto a stable entertainment center.

67 of 71 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best DVD Player in its price range, November 13, 2000

By A Customer

This is even better than sd2200: they trashed one DVD tray, so SD2300 has only one. Who needs two trays anyway? Maybe some people, but I personally would trade the extra tray for more features. That is what Toshiba has done!

Key points that distinguish this player from others: ...

1. NUON processor: besides improving DVD features and qualities this processor will let you play simple games (when they are actually released)

2. 16x zoom: sd2200 had only 4x zoom

3. reverse playback

4. Virtual light machine produces visual effects on your TV when you play CD.

I would highly recommend this player (pay attention though to the short warranty)

51 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nuon woks as advertised, Great DVD player, November 27, 2000

By A Customer

I replaced an older Toshibs DVD player with the Nuon SD2300, and I like it a lot. As advertised, fast and slow, forward and reverse work smothly -- without jerkiness, pixelization or loss of image. The image seemed clearer than the older player produced.

The zoom feature is as smooth as glass. You can smoothly zoom in and out. When you zoom in, a rectangle indicating full image size is displayed, along with a smaller rectangle inside it, to indicate the degree of magnification. The rectangle appears as 4 lines in the uper left of the screen. It goes away after a few seconds. You can use the remote "joystick" to pan around, and the two rectangles reappear as a guide.

I set my default mode to 4:3 (no letterbox) and, very nicely, it zoomed a letterbox movie to exactly fill the screen vertically. Evidently, it can detect the black bars and zoom them off the screen. If you want letterbox, it will of course display the full image width. 16:9 is also supported.

It is easer to navigate and select 5.1 audio than with other DVD players I've used. There are other features, like multiple angles all being displayed on one screen, that I haven't tested. There's also a strobe mode where successive frames are displayed in a 2x3 layout. Again, works as advertised.

The Audio Visualization feature is a strange bird. You have a rather limited number of visualizations to select from -- seems to be about 8. They are not very imiginative. The visualizatilon add-on's I've seen for MP3 PC software are orders of magnitude more inventive, interesting, suprising, and more detailed. But as a CD player screen saver, so to speak, the SD2300's visualization is more than OK.

Nuon games were not available when I got it. Th Samsung Nuon DVD player evidently includes a game pad. You have to buy one separately for the Toshiba.

All in all, I like the SD2300 very much and would recommend it to anyone who wants more than simple, single-speed playback. If you like to move forward or reverse, fast and slow, like a tape but with a continual image display, this player can't be beat.