Toshiba SD-9200 DVD Player
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- Number of Discs: 1
- Progressive Scan: With Progressive Scan
- Playable Disk Types: DVD Video VCD DVD Audio CD (Audio) CD-R CD-RW HDCD
- DVD Type: DVD Player
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Superb (if not the current best) DVD player
Pros
Sturdy, easy to use, HDCD and DVD audio support
Cons
Strange audio/video configuration options
Recommended it?
Yes
The Bottom Line:
Superb player! Used to be the best player but the competition has become too stiff for it to remain #1, worth it for the price though.
Okay, I have decided to update this review based on over a year of extensive experience with this player.
My previous review, a year ago, was full of praise for this player. I am going to summarize the positives and negatives of this player based on my experience and research.
Positives:
The unit is still sturdy as a rock and build quality has lived up to my expectations. The player has not given me a single problem during the last year of use.
The remote is super easy to use with a zillion modes to control the playback. Pretty impressive.
The digital readouts are "low-profile" and do not put out a bright show in the dark, so it will not distract.
Negatives:
Picture quality -- As you may have heard, there is a chroma bug in the Genesis chipset used in this player. Also, I have experienced some ghosting and ringing effects that I could not duplicate on players costing 1/3rd the price. Simply put, picture quality is pretty average compared to the current competition. On the Shrek DVD, there are severe artifacts in some of the scenes that are pretty unacceptable. It is important to note that I have experienced moderate to severe problems only on a minority of DVDs.
Overall with some picture adjustments it is liveable. Most of the DVDs will look superb.
Sound -- Although the sound quality is BREATHTAKING, there is a configuration bug in the player that limits playback to 16 bit/48 Khz audio using bitstream output. The player does not allow me to send a 20 bit bitstream via Toslink to my Denon reciever which is crazy in a top of the line unit. The only way to play 20-bit or greater audio is to directly use the analog outputs from the player which results in a rather confusing player-reciever hookup. If we just use bitstream then it will be downsampled to 16-bit and the extra high resolution audio data will be LOST! Even with this mess I still think the audio quality is far superior to any other player I have heard.
Although I own this player and invested quite a bit of money I must give my unbiased opinion. So, although this player is really good, there are better ones right now...I can't say its still the ultimate. So, look at some other ones if price is no object.
My previous review, a year ago, was full of praise for this player. I am going to summarize the positives and negatives of this player based on my experience and research.
Positives:
The unit is still sturdy as a rock and build quality has lived up to my expectations. The player has not given me a single problem during the last year of use.
The remote is super easy to use with a zillion modes to control the playback. Pretty impressive.
The digital readouts are "low-profile" and do not put out a bright show in the dark, so it will not distract.
Negatives:
Picture quality -- As you may have heard, there is a chroma bug in the Genesis chipset used in this player. Also, I have experienced some ghosting and ringing effects that I could not duplicate on players costing 1/3rd the price. Simply put, picture quality is pretty average compared to the current competition. On the Shrek DVD, there are severe artifacts in some of the scenes that are pretty unacceptable. It is important to note that I have experienced moderate to severe problems only on a minority of DVDs.
Overall with some picture adjustments it is liveable. Most of the DVDs will look superb.
Sound -- Although the sound quality is BREATHTAKING, there is a configuration bug in the player that limits playback to 16 bit/48 Khz audio using bitstream output. The player does not allow me to send a 20 bit bitstream via Toslink to my Denon reciever which is crazy in a top of the line unit. The only way to play 20-bit or greater audio is to directly use the analog outputs from the player which results in a rather confusing player-reciever hookup. If we just use bitstream then it will be downsampled to 16-bit and the extra high resolution audio data will be LOST! Even with this mess I still think the audio quality is far superior to any other player I have heard.
Although I own this player and invested quite a bit of money I must give my unbiased opinion. So, although this player is really good, there are better ones right now...I can't say its still the ultimate. So, look at some other ones if price is no object.
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