change 4 discs while the 5th keeps playing * plays DVD-Video, DVD-R & DVD-RW, DVD+R & DVD+RW * plays SACD, DVD-Audio, CD, CD-R & CD-RW, MP3 and WMA CD-R & CD-RW * plays digital picture CDs (JPEG) * selectable progressive-scan mode for smoother video with HD-compatible TVs (via the component video output) *
The Toshiba SD6915 five-disc DVD player offers up a whole host of advanced features in a sleek, silver package. The SD6915 is fitted with Super ColorStream Pro progressive-scan component-video (digital 3:2 pulldown) outputs, allowing for the highest-quality video signal to be sent from the DVD player to a component-video-equipped 480p TV for the smoothest, most filmlike images. When the player is utilized with an HD-ready set, typical NTSC artifacts--like video noise, dot crawl, and flicker--are virtually eliminated, resulting in a low-noise, highly detailed picture with excellent color purity. Working alongside is its 192 kHz/24-bit D/A converter to deliver warmer, more natural-sounding audio from many types of discs, including multichannel DVD-Audio and Super Audio CDs.
The player holds up to five discs, and you can set it to play them randomly. It'll play back songs randomly among each CD sequentially, or randomly among all the discs loaded at one time. The carousel tray allows access to load and unload discs while one is in play, so you'll never have to interrupt the music.
The SD6915 has playback options galore. Along with the aforementioned DVD-Audio and Super Audio CDs, you can play CD-R and CD-RW discs loaded with your music in either WMA or MP3 files, homemade DVD-Rs, and, of course, DVD-Video discs. You can even use it as a JPEG viewer to display digital photographs on a television set in the JPEG digital format. Just pop in a CD-R/RW with your favorite photos and start the show. Want to get a better look at something on the screen? Use the Digital Picture Zoom to select an area of the picture you want to magnify. Enhanced digital processing during moving video or freeze-frame playback produces superior color fidelity and resolution, even when you're zoomed in. You can also expand letterboxed films to increase the viewable area onscreen.
Video isn't the only thing to benefit from this player. The SD6915 has a 5.1-channel output with Bass Management for onboard decoding of Dolby Digital, DVD-Audio, and SACD content with control of independent channel parameters (speaker size, delay time, etc.), including control for bass reproduction. Use this feature to customize the player's multichannel audio output to your particular home theater system. Coaxial and optical TosLink Dolby Digital and DTS surround-sound outputs are also available. These use a single RCA-type or optical output jack to send signature multichannel audio to an audio/video receiver with a compatible input.
What's in the Box
SD6915 five-disc DVD player, universal remote control with TV controls, warranty information, and user's manual.
1 Psychedelic remote
The piss poor remote layout and user interface is why everyone else is complaining about this DVD-player. Toshiba engineers must have got bored with the older layout and decided to improve it by using submenu to control things. I previous owned a Toshiba sd-740 and I love the picture images and ease of use of the remote. Issues of the layout is the small IR range of the remote, to get it to work you got to point at it straight and level toward the right side of the machine front panel. To bookmark a chapter, find a chapter, you got to hit the submenu and go from there, how inconvenient not to be place simple commends on the remote. To forward and slow backward you have to press and hold down the next and back chapter buttons respectively. What happened to the other length of the movies options display?
Other issues:
The 5 discs unit here is twice as deep as a single player unit. You have to manually disc skip instead of each tray having its own distinguish buttons. Like the other reviewer stated the disc stop per the end of each disc, not automatically changing.
Images quality:
The DVD images are just as good as other consumer level player made by Toshiba. I can't really compare this player images to other images from $200 plus DVD-players. But I can say the color saturation and smoother progressive scan is a lot better then Panasonic or JVC consumer-level DVD players priced similarly. The sound quality is fine if you hock it up to a good receiver. DTS sound find also.
I say avoid this player since most people will find it too frustrating to use, but if you use it to just watch movies without fiddling around the images quality is fine. I give it a 4.5-stars there.
2 They call this a 'changer'?
Toshiba really created a more than lacklustre unit here. Just try to get it to play one CD then move on to the next one. When you play a disc, at the end it just stops. You MUST change to the next disc by pressing a button on the unit or the remote. The tech support admits that the unit was not designed to move from disc to disc except manually. You can do random play and get it to move from one disc to another, but that is the only way. In addition, you MUST have this unit connected to a TV at all times in order for anything to make sense. The cursor buttons do double duty, so for some functions you must press the menu button before pausing or stopping a CD in play. I would NOT recommend this to anyone. Just buy a single disc player, and you are better off.
3 Doesn't Last
I bought this DVD player 1 year ago and the laser tracking went out, meaning that no disc can be read - CD or DVD. This is the main component to a DVD player and to repair it costs more than it would to purchase a new machine. I called Toshiba to complain as I believe anything of quality should last more than 1 year. The would not replace the item or even cover the cost of repair. I will not purchase Toshiba again.
4 The old remote works, too!
My old Toshiba Sd 3205 died on Christmas Day. The family ordered an SD 6915, which arrived for New Years.
I use it in S Video mode. It's a trim and friendly little unit. It recognizes the remote from the old unit, which is nice.
I wish Toshiba would number the disc slots in WHITE, at the factory. My wife uses white-out tape, to make the numbers more readable for our ageing eyes.
I'm still glad to have a 5 disc changer; when it does CD Duty.
5 This Thing Sucks!!
There's just no other way to describe it. Everything about this DVD player sucks. I owned it for two hours and returned it. That was one hour and fifty nine minutes longer than anyone should have to put up with it. This thing deserves no stars. Please, learn from my pain and run, far far away.You would get more satisfaction from bashing your own skull in with two bricks. Believe me when I tell you, this thing SUCKS!!
6 Big waste of time and money.
I initially bought this player specifically for my Buffy/Angel addiction. Big mistake - it won't access the scripts on some seasons via the chapter skip keys, and the lack of shuttle keys on the remote doesn't offer the usual alternative. This will matter to people who watch any dvd series proiduced by TCFHE, as their in-house production values continue to fall.
That was just the start of what's wrong with this player. It won't play my homemade VCDs or DVDs (which all of my other players handled without trouble until they crapped out). It has no resume feature, and many times the carosel returns to disc 1 after shutting off. The carosel loads backwards, from disc 5 to disc 1, which is annoying when trying to retrieve discs to put away.
On the plus side, it does play mp3 data discs which aren't finalized.
7 toshiba sd 6915 player
I own 2 of these units and seem to be experiencing the review about the 1/10 second audio drop in the DTS mode ,have called Toshiba they say it is in my ONKYO 502 a/v yet i called onkyo and they are saying it is not the receiver ,plus i have 2 of these players and my other is hooked up to a panasonic sa-he9 a/v and the player does the same thing ,it seems to play great in dolby digital 5.1 and the DTS seems to be just a slight thing i am still trying other set ups .I would like to talk to Jon who wrote the only other review if you read this please e-mail if you will i would appreciate it .thank you freebird771@camden.net this seems to be the only way i could contact you not real computer literate.thanks
8 Horrible, buggy player
I've owned this player for a week now, and it's terribly buggy.
It won't turn on if it's set to output in progressive scan. It has annoying 1/4 second audio drops if you watch a DTS movie. It's response time to buttons pushed on the panel or remote is miserable. The ergonomics of the remote is horrible. It's picture isn't that good: http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/cgi-bin/shootout.cgi?function=search&articles=all&type=&manufacturer=1&maxprice=0&deInt=0&mpeg=0#ToshibaSD-6915
It'd be nice to have a working SACD/DVD-A/DVD-V changer, but this aint it.
