Toshiba SD-6915 5-Disc Progressive-Scan DVD Player

• 5-disc carousel plays DVD, Video CD, DVD-Audio, SACD, DVD-R, Audio CD, and CD-R/RW (MP3 and WMA playback) 
• Progressive-scan player ensures high-resolution picture and gives you less flicker and fewer motion artifacts; 3:2 pulldown for more filmlike images
• ColorStream Pro component video output; composite and S-video connections
• Multichannel Dolby Digital decoding; Dolby Digital/DTS compatible; optical/coaxial digital audio outputs
• Measures 17 x 2.8 x 16 inches (W x H x D)

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.

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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.

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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. Must have a HDTV ready set to use progessive scan.

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.

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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.

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.