Watch your favorite DVDs on your high-definition flat screen television with no loss of video quality thanks to the Toshiba SD-4990 upconverting, single-disc DVD player. Using the HDMI connection and a compatible TV, you’ll get uncompressed digital video up to HDTV level resolutions of 720p or 1080i. And since this conversion is performed within the player, the signal remains free from excessive digital-to-analog conversion artifacts. You’ll also be able to view your high-megapixel digital camera snapshots in enhanced resolution via the HDMI connection. Measuring just 1.65 inches high, this stylishly silver, super-slim player is 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-4990 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 Dig (more…)
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No 720p/1080i via component video output
I bought this over a year ago. I’m just upgrading to HD (1080i). My receiver has component video inputs/outputs but does not have HDMI inputs/outputs, so I’m electing to go the…
5.0 out of 5 stars
firmware solution
True does need firmware upgrade, doubt toshiba will be supplying one as unit has been archived by manufacturer, anythow since i only paid $40 for it at a discount store why not…
3.0 out of 5 stars
Flawed but fixable
I picked up one of these (SD-K860 version) at Goodwill for $27, with a 14-day return…So it was worth taking a chance…
5.0 out of 5 stars
I own this, and it rocks! GET IT NOW! It’s a good alternative to the HD-DVD Player…
I don’t know why or how this has such a low rating, maybe because it is mostly idiots on here who know NOTHING about HDTV’s.
See I am the technical type!
2.0 out of 5 stars
Waste of money
You have to use component cables to connect to the TV in order to switch it to HDMI…… did they not think about this before releasing this product?
1.0 out of 5 stars
Completely died in 8 months
I got this as a Christmas 2006 present. I probably watched 1-3 DVDs a week. It is now August 2007 and it won’t read any disks I put in it. I have to buy a new DVD player.
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Wish I could give it zero stars
This DVD player has been nothing but trouble. It freezes up and skips constantly. I get the message bad disc all the time.
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Bad DVD player!
Got this to upgrade the Philips DVP642 for a new HDTV. I really want to stay with Philips. However, their DVP5960 doesn’t have optical audio out (it has only coaxial out) -…
1.0 out of 5 stars
Lousy Product, Lousy Service
We bought this product in late 2006, it stopped working about 4 months later. We called Toshiba customer service, as advised in the manual, and after trouble-shooting, we were…
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Freezes when playing audio cds
Everything else seems to work ok. Had the same buggy stupid problems with HDMI cables like everyone else at first, but thanks to reviews and research I quickly fixed that…