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Toshiba SD 220 |
| Date: |
14/07/03 (266 review reads) |
| Rating: |
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Advantages: Good value
Disadvantages: Multi region problem
Being a bit of a technophobe, I guess I arrived in the world of DVD players fairly late. By the time my budget, desire for a reasonable brand and multi region requirements had been taken into account, there seemed to be a short list of 2 machines, the Toshiba SD220 and a Panasonic equivalent.
It is worth pointing out that the Toshiba can be bought as single region machine - the unit I purchased was from Amazon and already chipped to be multi region (unlike some manufacturers, there is no way to make the Toshiba multi region by simply inputting key presses via a remote - one of the actual chips has to be swapped).
The machine arrived on time and has performed reasonably well. I don't watch hundreds of DVD's, just the odd one each weekend, but the machine seems to have coped well with all of the UK DVDs I've played. Recently I have tried to watch a US region DVD however this seemed to give the machine a problem - the picture play back would only return black and white - everything else seems ok (sound, picture clarity etc), just a problem with the picture. I'll keep you posted on how Amazon cope with the Customer Service side of things.
If I could find a possible flaw, then it would be that the remote on the player feels a bit lightweight but overall, I am reasonably happy with the machine and would recommend it to others.
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- 03/10/03 I also have this DVD player (SD220E) and have had the same problem you suggested with region 1 disks.
Firstly I would agree with shalimar comments. However there are a couple of others things you could try.
1. If your TV does support NTSC then it's worth having a look at the SCART sockets on the TV, if you have more than one. Usually one of the scart sockets is labelled RGB and it's definately worth using that one if you have a choice.
2. On the DVD player is you go into the options menu and change the output format to RGB then you should be able to play region 1 disks in colour. The picture is usually slightly darker than normal using this setting but it should be in colour even if your TV does not support NTSC.
Hope this helps if you haven't already solved your problem. |
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- 14/07/03 Wow, thank you for that shalimar - I'll ceratinly give that a look and thanks for the comment |
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- 14/07/03 If playing a Region 1 disc results with a Black and White picture then it might be that your TV doesn't fully support NTSC playback.
Just a thought. |
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