Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #288 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Toshiba
• Model: SD390EKB
• Released on: 2009-04-23

Manufacturer's Description
The Toshiba SD390 DVD player is perfect for watching pre-edited content archived onto writable and re-writable DVD. It produces good quality, stable progressively scanned video images through its component video connection and great sound is guaranteed with the analogue 2 channel output.

The SD390 has HDMI connection for lossless transmission of video and audio content, upscaling standard definition DVD content to 720p,1080i and 1080p, breathing new life into your existing DVD collection.

The Jpeg Viewer lets you view all your captured memories on the big screen and the MP3 playback lets you play your tunes through your TV, making it the centre of attention.

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Customer Reviews

Picture perfect bargain
Having bought a Toshiba Regza 37" 1080p TV a few months back, we've been really impressed with Sky HD, it looks incredible on the Tosh and really shows the capabilities of the HD format.

However, as good as our DVD recorder is, the component progressive output wasn't quite up to standard. We have an enormous collection of DVD's, and decided we'll get a Blu Ray player as a christmas treat for ourselves, so in the meantime, i searched for a cheap, good quality upscaling player. Having looked around we settled on this little corker. I do not want USB and hundreds of outputs, snazzy remotes and dazzling looks - i just want something that had the guts to do the job. This, people, really does the trick!! I have it on good authority that the upscaling chip is exactly as in the more expensive Toshiba SD590, only this one skimps on the outputs a little and is a tad smaller all round.
Even in native DVD resolution at 576i there was a vast improvement on our older DVD player - but scale up to 1080p and immediately there is a huge difference. Ok, this is NOT Blu Ray, but only a fool would disagree that the picture quality looks tremendous. Pixar's Cars is easily on par with the HD broadcast on Disney HD, and older stuff like The Good The Bad & The Ugly looks superb, with razor sharp detail both close up and well into the backgrounds. Be aware though, that the old saying goes here; Rubbish In=Rubbish Out. Our Gavin and Stacey DVD looked better, but due to the average encoding the Tosh could not polish out the defects, so please bear in mind that upscaling will not suddenly make your terrible looking DVD's shine like a new pin!
Overall, i am really impressed. It is fast to load, quiet, easy to set up, and at £40 you really cannot go wrong. If you have a top notch display and want to give, (the very best) of your DVD collection a new lease of life, you'd be hard pressed to find more bang per buck than the Baby Tosh :-)

Good, but not great! Multiregion capable.
Picture quality is as good as any other DVD player that I have owned, remote is rubbish - very small and impossible to use in the dark (fortunately an old remote from my old dead Tosh DVD player also works with this model) My DVD was easily made multiregion as follows

1. Power On
2. Open Tray
3. Press 9879 0 (0 = Multiregion, 1 = Region 1 etc etc)

Only downside with this player is that it doesn't remember your place after being turned off (my Samsung DVD does and my wife finds this very useful).

A revelation
I was sceptical at first thinking how can a dvd player upscale an ordinary dvd but at the price on Amazon I ordered one and how glad I am that I did.The difference in picture quality is amazing.Obviously it needs to be connected to the tv via an hdmi cable and then by pressing the hdmi button on the remote handset whilst your dvd is playing the resolution is upscaled to auto by one press of the button-480p/576p by the next-720p then 1080i and finally 1080p on the last press.It really does make a difference to the viewing experience at the fraction of the price of a blue ray player not to mention the price of the discs.The unit itself is sleek and has all the usual functions of a good quality player with cd/ mp3/ and jpeg playback.This unit is great value for money and even if the upscaling element doesn't interest you there is a scart socket for conventional playback of your dvd's but try iy with the hdmi cable and I think you'll be impressed.