Note: Toshiba SD-3960 DVD Player is no longer being manufactured. You may want to consider purchasing the newer Toshiba SD-3980 DVD Player instead. The high-end SD-3960 DVD player from Toshiba delivers a stunningly clear picture and fantastic surround sound, making it a perfect addition to your home theater. Utilizing Toshiba’s ColorStream Pro progressive-scan video technology, the SD-3960 yields vivid colors, clean resolution, and reduced onscreen distortion. A 10-bit/54-MHz digital-to-analog video signal converter also assists in reproducing your DVDs in theaterlike clarity. While the SD-3960 is compatible with both analog and digital televisions, you will achieve optimum picture quality by using the player with a high-definition-compatible television. You can take full advantage of the visual clarity of the SD-3960 with its versatile digital picture zoom option. The zoom feature lets you magnify a portion of the picture onscreen while in freeze-frame mode or even while watching a DVD in real time. The feature is great for spotting details in movies or even adjusting letterboxed movies to fill your screen. The SD-3960 plays DVDs, DVD-Rs, and CDs, so you can enjoy all your favorite videos and music. You can also play MP3s and view digital JPEG photos from CDs created in your computer with the SD-3960. The SD-3960 gives you more than a great picture. You also 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. For a cinematic surround-sound experience, you can easily connect the SD-3960 to a home theater receiver with an RCA-type connection. The SD-3960 features Dolby Digital and DTS surround-sound output. The SD-3960 gives a sonic boost to any home theater, even a setup with just stereo speakers. The SD-3960’s virtual surround-sound capability creates a simulated surround experience from any DVD or CD (more…)
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not Perfect
This player was a gift for my father in law a couple years ago. One of ours died, and he didn’t need it any more so he gave it to us.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Whiners
I bought this when I couldn’t afford much more. It worked okay, but it has with it several annoyances.
1.0 out of 5 stars
You get what you pay for
Given another chance, I would gladly go back and spend the extra $20-30 for a quality DVD player. I quickly began to suspect poor workmanship when I first turned the player on and…
1.0 out of 5 stars
Too many problems
Just after a few months of owning it I ran into the same audio-dying problem that others have run into, and then it was totally worthless. WTF?
1.0 out of 5 stars
Complete piece of junk.
I bought this thing because I have another Toshiba DVD player (SD-3750) which is a very good DVD player. Unfortunately the 3960 is a terrible DVD player.
1.0 out of 5 stars
A piece of garbage – don’t waste your money
I am so completely disappointed with this product. I bought the Toshiba SD-3960 DVD player with “progressive scan” technology two years ago in an attempt to upgrade from my old…
1.0 out of 5 stars
sound died
I wish I had read the other reviews before I bought this, because just as others before me, the player lost sound after less than a year’s use. It worked well before that.
1.0 out of 5 stars
A Lemon
I would give this no stars if that was a choice. I know why this machine is no longer available. It is a lemon through and through.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Audio Quit After 9 months
The player was working fine, no frills, but working. Then the audio just stopped. Video still plays fine but no audio. I have had two Toshiba DVD players fail on me now.
1.0 out of 5 stars
No audio
Purchased in January 2005, manufacture date on back is Oct 2004. The unit actually played very nicely for a few months then on to the intermittent skipping others have reported…