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Toshiba SD-3990 Progressive Scan DVD Player

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Slim-profile, single-disc multiformat DVD player; measures 16.9 x 1.65 x 8.2 inches (WxHxD)
Compatibility with DVD movie, CD audio,CD-R/CD-RW, DVD-R/RW, and VCD discs; DivX, JPEG, MP3 and WMA files
3:2 pulldown detection adapt 24 frames-per-second movies to 30 fps progressive scan video
Outputs: 1 composite, 1 S-Video, 1 component
DVD offer Dolby Digital/DTS decoding; coaxial digital audio output

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SLIM PROGRESSIVE DVD PLAYER W/ DIVX

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Nicely affordable yet packed full of powerful video and audio playback features, the Toshiba SD-3990 single-disc, progressive scan DVD player has a stylishly silver, super-slim profile that measures just 1.65 inches high. It's also compatible with a wide variety of disc and digital file formats, including DVD-R/RW, CD-R/RW, and VCD discs as well as MP3, WMA, and JPEG (Kodak Picture and FujiColor CDs) content burned to disc. It's also DivX Home Theater Certified, meaning that it's compatible with video burned to disc using both the DivX video format.

The SD-3990 performs 3:2 pulldown detection and reversal, too--a handy feature for watching progressive-scan movie programs in their native 24-frame format. To adapt 24 frames-per-second movies to 30 fps video, frames in the original movie must be duplicated; 3:2 pulldown digitally corrects this duplication by removing the redundant information to display a frame-accurate picture.

With the JPEG Viewer, you can easily display your favorite digital photos and create custom slideshows with a few simple clicks of the player's remote control. The interactive Digital Picture Zoom feature allows you to select an area of the video from a DVD and magnify it. Other DVD playback features include fast scan, slow motion, multi-angle selection, multi-subtitle selection, and parental lock.

You get vivid, realistic sound, thanks to Toshiba's 24-bit/192 kHz pulse code modulation (PCM) audio processor. PCM audio translates digital signals from your DVDs and CDs into warmer, natural sound. The DVD player offers Dolby Digital and DTS decoding, and you can connect to a multi-channel home theater surround sound system via the coaxial digital audio output. It also produces 3D virtual surround sound from two speakers. It features the following video and audio connections:

Composite A/V: 1
S-Video: 1
Component Video: 1
Digital audio: 1 coaxial
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
Single-disc DVD player, remote control (with batteries), printed operating instructions

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Technical Details

Brand Name

‎Toshiba

Item Weight

‎5.1 pounds

Product Dimensions

‎8.11 x 16.93 x 1.65 inches

Item model number

‎SD-3990

Is Discontinued By Manufacturer

‎No

Special Features

‎Dimensions: 16.93" W x 1.65" H x 8.11", Plays All-Region DVDs: Region 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 0, Plays PAL and NTSC Region

Item display height

‎1.65 inches

Additional Information

ASIN

B000EBRLHK

Customer Reviews

3.0 137 ratings

3.0 out of 5 stars

Best Sellers Rank

#686,452 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
#552 in DVD Players

Date First Available

October 1, 2001

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Unreliable and worthless

Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2007

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For three months this DVD player worked fine. It's made by Toshiba but modified by a 3rd party - in this case, Northstar Electronics. They modify it so it will play all regions. In the first 90 days we used the player about a dozen times when it suddenly ceased to operate for no reason whatsoever. I tried to use it one afternoon and it just wouldn't work anymore. The player turns on, and the drawer can be opened and closed, but otherwise it will not play any disc from any region, nor will it play CDs. After some research I discovered that faulty modifications often result in this kind of problem with a player. I cannot recommend this product or Northstar Electronics. I suggest spending more and getting a player that has not been modified in-house, but instead was manufactured specifically to play multiple region DVDs.

22 people found this helpful

I Expect Better.

Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2009

I would have expected much better from a manufacturer such as Toshiba, particularly one of their DVD players, but first lets start with the positives. The picture quality is impressive, the controls are easy to use, and it was certainly easy to get it up and running in about five minutes.

And now for the bad part. The build quality is ridiculously poor. I'm all for light-weight electronics, but this thing feels about as sturdy as a bag of chips, and weighs approximately the same. It has a distinctly cheap, plasticky feel to it and it causes concern every time I see anyone else try to play a DVD in it in case they're slightly heavy-handed with it.

I say "try to play" because its multi-region, play all capabilities are frankly pathetic. The first thing I noticed was that some UK DVDs simply would not play, with no apparent pattern or reason. As if that wasn't bad enough, a small selection of my US DVDs won't play either, and I made sure to confirm afterwards that they would still play on my 5yr old RCA DVD player.

The DVDs we have played successfully have also been problematic at best. Movies have a tendency to start stuttering and freezing after roughly an hour of playback. Cleaning the disc itself doesn't help, and often times the only way to overcome the problem is to fast-forward and then rewind through the scene a few times, after which it seems to play. Other times it requires completely powering down the player and powering it up again. We tried cleaning the lens with a cleaning DVD, but this had no effect at all.

I should point out that our player was refurbished, and this may be down to issues that were not repaired with it, but that doesn't excuse the terrible build quality, or indeed the high failure rate these units seem to suffer from.

This brings me to the next problem with this purchase - the seller. We purchased from DiscountJungle who advertised the unit as being in a "Like New!!" condition. Suffice to say, the first unit we received was not at all "like new", unless you count the packaging. The unit was effectively DOA courtesy of a jammed loading tray, and sported a large and noticeable dent in its left flank.

I was issued an RMA number and returned it for a replacement, at which time I (naturally) had to pay the return shipping costs. Imagine my surprise when I discovered the shipping cost a grand total of roughly $12 - some way off the rather expensive $25 shipping fees that the seller had levied upon me during the initial purchase.

We're no longer using the player, it's gathering dust sitting atop of our ageing RCA unit, which is still happily playing every USA DVD we throw at it despite its age and the abuse we've given it over the years. If I had to make a recommendation to anyone wanting to play multi-region, multi-format (PAL/NTSC) DVDs on their home TV, it would be this: Save your money, buy a laptop, install VLC Media Player (for free), and connect it to your TV via a VGA or HDMI cable. Whatever you decide, I'd steer clear of these players - and the sellers who "refurbish" them.

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Brendan Stewart

Something is wrong here...

Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2007

Just browsing through these reviews, I tend to notice that they seem staged or sort of insincere. I click on the reviews and the majority of the authors have never written another review besides this one... only like 5 of the 34 reviewers have written another review, and of those few half of the reviews were negative.

Maybe I'm being a little paranoid here but I for one am not going to trust these reviews. I'm picturing a scandelous little company doing shoddy modifications to the players and then setting up a bunch of email addresses to write glowing reviews with.

I could be wrong though... just really look at these reviews and judge for yourself.

17 people found this helpful

Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2010

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For a cheap dvd player that plays both NTSC and PAL along with other common formats, it's a good deal. I used to have a great little Cyberhome DVD player which died and so far this has turned out to be a good bedroom replacement. Video/Audio Quality looks decent though hard to tell because my bedroom TV is an old cheap tube tv. This doesn't have a lot of bells and whistles and I wouldn't use on my nice 1080P LCD, but for anything else it's good.

Good value, ease of use, keeps on ticking

Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2010

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This is mainly a commentary on some of the other reviews. Not a dispute, just my own observations.

1. I have had mine since 2007 (it is now July 2010) and it still works like new (others have reported that theirs stopped working after a short time).

2. If you watch closely, you will see the occasional subtle skip in playback of a region 2 DVD. This is due to the difference in frame rate between the PAL and NTSC systems. PAL playback is just a tad slower than NTSC (25 frames per second vs. 29.97 frames per second) and so the player has to correct for this in regular intervals. Compared to my experience with loading PAL-encoded DVDs into the movie making software (set to NTSC) on my computer (no, I am not bootlegging movies!), where the audio and video get highly unsynchronized after a few minutes, I'd say this DVD player does a fine job.

DO NOT BUY THIS

Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2012

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First of all, I received this DVD player from the seller without a remote control in the box. Second, the DVD player does NOT play all region DVDs. I tried to play a region 4 DVD this morning and it absolutely did not work. I don't know if this is because I don't have the remote control? But either way, I might as well have flushed my money down my toilet. I am so angry about this. Everyone should think before buying this player or from this seller.

Leslie M. Ficcaglia

Subtitle Features Work Poorly

Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2009

This DVD player handles both Region 1 and Region 2 films, but the subtitle feature is a problem. Changing the settings on the screen during initial setup of the movie doesn't translate to changes while watching it - only pressing the subtitle button on the remote affects that. But more annoying is that often the subtitles appear too low to be read completely. Resizing the screen made no difference in my ability to see them. The same films work perfectly on my Mac, which is set to Region 2; the subtitles are clear and easily viewed. So I'm retiring this DVD player and trying a Philips DVP5990, which got better reviews. Here's hoping....

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