Customer Reviews
Fine player 
2007-02-22
The display is incredible. The animated movies that the kids mostly watch come across the screen with remarkable detail.
On the down side: With the speakers on the side of the screen (not below), finding a case/car mounting system that would accomodate its width was difficult. I did finally find one at Bestbuy that only took slight modifications. As other have said, this player does not resume play after returning power to unit. So turning off the car and then returning, you start at the beginning of the show or mess with it to find where you left off. Lastly, louder volume would be nice.
Still a nice player with a nice slim design. The battery is designed nice too (good for 3+ hours new). I mention the negatives, because they are the main reason I look at reviews.
Awesome! 
2007-02-17
Great product. Best portable dvd I have seen and a fantastic price.
Delivered in a timely manner and well packaged.
HOLY CRAP it plays WMA's and DIVX? 2006-12-22
Now I really wish I could get a refund on the $200 "Nortech 10 inch Portable DVD Player" my mother got for me at Sam's Club. Funny that my $99 3 inch Coby I got at Suncoast would outshine a $200 10 inch unit.
But anyways, yeah... I definately want this thing for Christmas!
I'm a -BIG- anime nut. I also watch alot of subtitled japanese music videos and I never can find a portable that shows the english subs correctly. I also hate having to spend hours converting my Divx files into a format acceptable enough for Nero, so being able to play Divx files would be really great. And WMA's? Hell yeah! I hate it when i'm making an MP3 DVD and I run into tracks that are in WMA and Nero starts nagging.
Also the cursor buttons are on the unit itself, not on some remote that's eventually gunna need a new battery. Now the real kicker would be if it actually allowed me to change to 4:3 TV ratio instead of stupid 16:9! Inuyasha just doesn't look right when everyone looks like they're all fat! Also, being able to scroll ID3 tag information like Winamp would also rock. How come nobody has thought of that for portables? My mother's APEX home DVD unit shows ID3 tags, so why the heck don't portables??? >.<
Toshiba Portable DVD Player 2006-08-06
I love this product. I would highly recommend it. Havent had a problem yet
Exceptional player with one fatal flaw 
2006-05-28
I didn't see this fact in any of the other reviews of this player. I have had it for about 24 hours. My discovery is that there is no way to resume playing a disc after the power is turned off. In other words, if you watch a dvd and decide you want to stop for awhile, the player has no function which allows you to resume from the point at which you stopped--if you've turned the power off.
Believe me, I tried everything. The bookmark feature looked promising until I read the information that all bookmarks are reset when the power is turned off.
I have never seen a dvd player that didn't have the resume feature--no matter how inexpensive.
The pluses of this player--primarily the georgous screen and the remote--do not compensate for the omission of this feature. In fact, a portable player would certainly seem to be subject to watching for awhile, then stopping and then re-starting. How cumbersome to have to sort through the dvd menu--assuming your dvd has one!--to try and find the place where you left off.
Were it not for the ommission of this feature, I would have rated this player as 4 stars, and would have definitely kept it.
excellent display, but it didnt last long 
2008-05-13
WELL, I WANT TO BE POSITIVE FIRST OFF, BY SAYING THIS PLAYER HAD THE NICEST PICTURE OF OF THE MANY I VIEWED, I DIDNT MIND THE SLIGHTLY LARGER SIZE AND WEIGHT, SINCE I FELT IT WAS BUILT MORE OUT OF METAL, THAN PLASTIC,...IT HAD NICE FEATURES AND GREAT VIEWING ANGLES....NOW, THE NOT SO GREAT. I BOUGHT THIS PLAYER BRAND NEW IN NOV.2007...I ALWAYS TREAT MY THINGS WITH KID GLOVES, AND SO IT STILL LOOKS "OUT OF THE BOX"..NOW HERES WHAT BOTHERS ME..THE DISPLAY WENT OUT..NOW YOUR TALKING ABOUT 100 MOVIES WENT THROUGH THIS PLAYER, AT MAYBE AN AVERAGE OF 2 HRS EA=200HRS PLAYING TIME.THE MANUAL SAYS THE HIGH RESOLUTION DISPLAY HAS AN AVERAGE LIFE OF APPROX. 10,000 HRS...I AM GETTING TO A POINT IN MY LIFE WHERE IT DOSENT MATTER THE BRAND, OR NAME, NOTHING LASTS...I HAVE A CALL IN TO TOSHIBA TO SEE ABOUT GETTING IT REPAIRED...NOW A FINAL OPEN SURVEY...HOW MANY OF YOU THINK ITS GOING TO COST ABOUT THE SAME TO GET IT REPAIRED AS IT WOULD FOR ME TO THROW IT AWAY AND BUY A NEW ONE?...SIGNED, HAPPY WHILE IT LASTED
Best Picture Quality So Far 2008-02-15
My wife is very happy with this DVD Player. The picture is the best that we have had so far. We have owned three different players over the years. We would make the same purchase again.
Outstanding Resolution 2007-10-09
I got this Toshisha Portable DVD Player as a birthday gift last month. I took it with me on my vacation to the Caribbean, and I have to say that this is the best portable dvd player available in the market. Excellent picture resolution is almost like washing a movie on HDTV. Best investment and awesome gift. Toshiba did it again in delivering top performance electronics.
While it was working it was excellent 
2007-08-08
I had this DVD player for a few months. We really got our use out of it. It has great features, options, picture, sound (in comparrison with other units), etc. I had no complaints about it. However, I started noticing after about a month that the unit would turn itself on while it was plugged in charging the battery, even with the unit closed. The only way to get it to stop was to unplug it completely and take the battery off. Which was fine if you were done charging it.... Then, after about 1 month of that happening it would be playing a movie and the power would just turn off. I would turn it back on, try to find the place in the movie we were watching and continue and it would be fine. Then after appx. another month it just started to turn itself off and it wouldn't turn back on, not with the power cord, the battery, the remote, nothing would work. Then the next day you would try it and it would power up just fine. All I can say is THANK GOD I BOUGHT THE WARRANTY! They told me that they don't carry this model anymore and they are replacing it with anything else of my choice.... now I have to figure out something else to get! It took days of researching this one!
Good LCD display, otherwise it sucks 2007-06-05
I have no complaints about the quality of the LCD screen, probably the best available on a portable player. Believe it or not, I prefer watching DVDs on this device than on my CRT TV set.
The problem here is that everything else about this DVD player is really bad.
It's really thick and heavy. Barely portable. The smallest Sony Vaio notebook weighs the same as this DVD monstrosity and is a lot thinner. Although the LCD on this is actually better for watching DVDs.
When you turn the DVD player off, it loses it's place in the DVD and then you have to waste a lot of time figuring out how to get back to where you left off. This is pretty pathetic. Surely it doesn't take much battery power, if any, to have one little memory chip keep track of where you were on the DVD while the power is turned off.
Another lousy feature, shared with all other portable DVD players I've seen, is that the fast foward button does double duty as the move to next scene button. Thus if you want to fast forward, but forget to hold down long enough, ZAP, you've lost your place. It comes with a remote control which has the proper buttons, but it seems pretty dumb to have a remote control for a device you're suppose to use on your lap or on a table directly in front of you. All the controls you need should be directly on the player, not on a remote control you can easily lose.
Finally, when do you get the fast forward mode, if you fast forward, or rewind, at any faster than 2X speed, what you see on the screen does not match where the thing is actually going to go to when you push the play button again.
It's too bad that there is no quality in the portable DVD player market. Toshiba has a new unit out, the P2900, but it looks identical to this model so it probably has all of the same flaws.
