Toshiba SD-K860 DVD Player

Pros: Cheap, acceptable dvd playback quality
Cons: Weak divx support, slow menu and bootup

Gone are the days for $200 budget dvd players. $200 dvd players are considered top of the line and $500 players are in the range of HD-DVD players. With so much content still available in the standard dvd format, standard dvd players are still selling ...

Pros: Inexpensive
Cons: Does not do what a basic DVD player should do - play DVDs

I bought this unit for my mom a couple of years ago since it was inexpensive and easy for her...a non-techy type...to understand and operate. Fortunately for her, she only used it when I was there to operate for her, because if she had tried on her own, ...

Pros: Little noise, HDMI, Toslink Optical output, Quiet
Cons: Freezes after being on for a while, blips in play occasionally

I bought this product refurbished and I really must admit, even though I'm not a tremendous fan of Toshiba's equipment, this is a really pretty good DVD player. It's extremely quiet and has very little noise generation in the upconversion process. However, whenever it sits on the DVD menu for too long(if you accidentally leave it on all night), it will freeze. Not a big problem at all and is easily solved by turning the player off and then on again or ejecting the disk. The only other problem is it occasionally blips in DVD playing. Probably just needs to have the lens cleaned.