This Tosh looks Posh (Toshiba SD 210E)

Member Name: smcc

Product:	Toshiba SD 210E
Date:	26/01/02 (147 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Excellent picture and sound quality, Plays VCDs (even CDRW), Plays MP3s

Disadvantages: Motor a little noisy

I decided, for Xmas, I would like a DVD player as top pressie. Everyone at work appeared to have one and I was not going to watch everything on my PC (although I HAVE watched a few films and my 17" Samtronic does them proud (as well as the surround sound speaker setup).

My wife decided she would cough up the dough at Xmas. However, a pleasant surprise landed in my e-mail box: I won a compo with Orangina - a £200 gift voucher with lastminute.com. Always the doubting Thomas, I searched their website expecting the deal to be "Spend £3000 and get £200 off your next lastminute.com holiday" or something similar. But wait, they had more than holidays...they had TVs, Hi-fi's, VCRs and, and, and oooh DVD PLAYERS. Well, one DVD Player.

So, I ordered a player only to be told that they were out of stock (here we go), but they have a similar spec machine by Toshiba for £2 extra.

So Friday just before Christmas, I joined the rest of the World and owned my very own DVD Player.

Ok, so you're all bored senseless now. What about the machine? It plays DVDs! Yippee, end of opinion...

Seriously, very few flaws with machine. It has replaced the CD player on our hifi (broke down when we moved house, but still liked rest of system) and does have some excellent features. It is multi-regional, plays VCDs and even MP3 CDs.

My only niggle is that you cannot disable Macrovision. Not a problem I hear you say? However, our TV is playing up (again, since we moved house) in that the scart socket has a fault somewhere: after a while it kind of overheats and send the picture through it all wobbly (sorry to get technical on everyone). Also, our video is not NTSC compatible. Therefore all my DVDs that have Macrovision and all the DVDs I have borrowed that are Region 1, I still have to watch on my PC! Either that or, by saving a bit on a DVD Player via a compo, I need to fork out more on a new TV and video!!! r><br>
It's still a great DVD Player. Favourite feature has to be the zoom option. My wife doesn't like widescreen mode (I do) so I can remove it with a few taps on the good old RC.

Well worth the money (even if I had to buy it).

Update on the Tosh - 16/03/02:

Still an excellent choice in DVD, I have noticed the slight whirring of the motor (but only when I have to have the sound down to minimum). I have now invested in a video with NTSC playback and a "cable" to overcome the Macrovision. I now want to invest in a mega TV to enjoy my rapidly increasing DVD collection (got about 20 already).