A road warrior’s dream, a home theater’s able centerpiece: Toshiba’s SD-P2700 DVD-Video/DVD-Audio portable DVD player gives you the best of both worlds. The compact unit is distinguished by its sleek appearance, its 8.9-inch polysilicon widescreen display, and its high-resolution 1,024 x 600-pixel screen. The TFT (thin-film-transistor) active-matrix display delivers film-like images rich in detail, color resolution, and contrast. Besides media playback versatility–it handles everything from DVD-Video to DVD-R, VCD, MP3/WMA CD, and a host of image formats–the SD-P2700 offers Toshiba’s Super ColorStream Pro progressive-scan component-video outputs (for use with high-definition and HD-ready TVs) and employs an 10-bit, 54 MHz video digital-to-analog converter to cement its guarantee of stellar image quality. A sleek, credit-card-sized remote control simplifies operation. Progressive scanning, referred to as 480p for the number of horizontal lines that compose the video image, creates a picture using twice the scan lines of a conventional DVD picture, giving you higher resolution and sharper images while eliminating nearly all motion artifacts. Further, the SD-P2700 incorporates the Toshiba exclusive Digital Direct LCD Drive, which minimizes conversion artifacts by streaming the video signal directly from the MPEG decoder to the LCD screen driver in the digital domain, bypassing D/A-A/D conversions that would otherwise degrade image quality. Toshiba’s digital photo viewer displays images right on your television in a variety of popular formats, including Konica, Fuji Photo, Kodak Photo CD, as well as standard JPEG files–there’s even a Secure Digital/MultiMedia Card slot to further simplify viewing. An onscreen display walks you through the process of making your own slideshows, in which you can preset the viewing time of each slide as well as zoom, rotate, and pan each photo. Leading-edge 24-bit/192 kHz digital-analog converters from Analog Devices (more…)
3.0 out of 5 stars
Plays MPG files nicely
The main reason I purchased this player was to have a portable dvd player that has the “divx” playback feature (not mentioned in the US literature), but you can read about it at…
1.0 out of 5 stars
Freezes often-do not buy
My wife and I bought this player for our kids (for long car trips) for Christmas 2004. We are both working professionals (teacher and policeman).
3.0 out of 5 stars
Nice player BUT
This is an excellent player, with many nice features. The screen is sharp but, and this is a very big but, the viewing angles are so narrow as to render this almost unusable and…