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I froze a frame on an actor's face and when the sharpness mode was engaged, facial hairs became visible and the individual beard stubs of his five o-clock shadow became detailed and sharp. I could never go back to watching my collection on anything else. The picture truly is remarkable and breathes new life into regular dvd's. Perhaps the new version of this, the XDE 600 will not have the same issues. After reading the recent reviews here, I'm pretty frightened as it seems many of these units have quality control issues and/or a short life span. I purchased the XDE in June of 2009 and have been extremely impressed with the picture quality - I actually love the sharpness setting and to me, on my tv, (a Samsung 720p/1080i 16x9 CRT 26"), this makes the picture pretty darn close to a true HD dvd. So far, mine has been flawless and I hope it stays that way. Doing a test of the XDE modes on a freeze frame proved to me that the sharpness mode really made a difference.
We had to disassemble the player to retrieve the disc and will just throw away rather than put it together. We used it infrequently. We returned it to Amazon. It wouldn't eject the dvd and then wouldn't turn on. We received this DVD player as a gift in December 2008. During the first use, we got the green pixels that everyone else received. This week, the DVD stopped and the screen had brownish-pink diagonal lines.
Perhaps my expectations were too high on this front. But that's pretty much what to expect from electronics at this price point. So the new one was fine for 3 months. The picture quality is fine. Unplugging it fixed that problem--at least temporarily--but I wasn't sure how long it'd last, so I exchanged it.
I can't say it's a huge step up from my previous non-upscaling DVD player. Now it periodically doesn't output an HDMI signal on startup--cycling the power fixes the issue--and sometimes emits a giant burp through the audio (which I don't have running through the HDMI output).It looks a little cheap, and feels even cheaper. (Yes, I got the same model. I'm on my 2nd player; the first one simply froze after a week. I don't learn my lesson).
The physical buttons on the unit are small and unresponsive, but that's what the remote is for.
Based on the number of negative reviews for this player it seems to me there are more defects than not. One can argue that I happened to purchase a lemon which can happen from time to time and is not indicative of the general population. My DVD player died right in the middle of a movie. Also, like many people have mentioned the player is extremely defective and has a very short life span. Don't make the same mistake I made. This is a valid point but my gripe is that a defect should be a rarity and not a common occurence for a product that a consumer spends his hard earned money on.
The screen turned into a jumbled mess of green pixels (which is a very common issue if you read some other user reviews) and I knew immediately that the player was dead because I remembered when I first purchased this item I ignored those negative reviews that told me to avoid this faulty product. I purchased this player earlier this year and like most people have mentioned the upconvert picture quality is excellent. This is why I am only giving this item one star. Toshiba clearly didnt do a very good job on quality control which is a shame because when it works its really good.
IT'S A PIECE OF JUNK. I tried cleaning the dvds and ran a duster through the player as well. I even threw away a couple of them. The dvds that didn't play on this player, miraculously started playing on the Phillips dvd player that I recently purchased. At first, the picture was great, and it was all I ever wanted from a dvd player.
Make a long story short, DON'T WAISTE YOUR MONEY. Then I found it suspicious that every other dvd would not play. In about 6 months I started noticing that my dvds wouldn't play on it, like it would skip, or blank out completely. I bought this product around December of 2008. I thought that my dvds were going bad.
And it would still act up.
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