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5.5 out of 10

Toshiba SD-3990

First seen: 18 february 2006

Information found in: from 5 sources in 2 countries.
  • User Score (157)
    6.3 6.3 from 157 reviewers
  • Ease of use (13)
    5.6 5.6 from 13 reviewers
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Pros & Cons

  • good mpeg 4 support, low price, good subtitle support, great picture and sound, multi region pal ntsc
  • some style issues, useless front display, no toslink, cheap display, ate some dvd cds

The SD-3990 DVD player features ColorStream Pro® Progressive Scan Component Video Outputs for enhanced color purity and image detail. DivX® Home Theater Certified allows playback of DivX, AVI and MPEG4 (.ASF) compressed files downloaded from the internet from a personal computer and stored on a CD-R/RW. The convenient JPEG Photo Viewer enables users to seamlessly display digital photographs from disc onto their televisions. Play back MP3 and WMA files effortlessly f…

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    18 February 2006

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  1. Toshiba SD-3990 Review

    Reviewer: Digitaltrends
    28 December 2006

    The SD-3990 DVD player features ColorStream Pro Progressive Scan Component Video Outputs for enhanced color purity and image detail. DivX Home Theater Certified allows playback of DivX, AVI and MPEG4 (.ASF) compressed files downloaded from the internet from a personal computer and stored on a CD-R/RW. The convenient JPEG Photo Viewer enables users to seamlessly display digital photographs from disc onto their televisions. Play back MP3 and WMA files effortlessly from... Read more

  1. Worked well...until it didn't

    Reviewer: Epinions
    31 July 2008
    Overall 4
    4.0
    Ease of use 6
    6.0
     

    The first thing I noticed was the lip-sync was off. Turning the unit off and on again would solve the problem, for a while. Sometimes I would have to go through this procedure three or four times a movie. This became a common problem for about the first week after which it seemed to resolve itself. It then worked dependably and as advertised for about a year. I noticed that the time it took to load a disc was much longer than my old Toshiba SD-1800. It started taking... Read more

  2. Mine Lasted 2.5 years

    Reviewer: Bobby Fury, Amazon
    21 July 2009
    Overall 4
    4.0
     

    I use the player infrequently and after 2.5 years it has stopped working. It tries and tries to load a disk but it just won't. The Toshiba website suggests unpluging the player for 2-3 minutes to see if that resolves the problem. It didn't. Prior to the breakdown it was a fine unit - never had any problems or quality issues. Read more

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