Toshiba SD-220/e Review

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Toshiba SD-220/e
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churdy.'s Review of Toshiba SD-220/e

12th Aug 2002

Overall Rating

4 stars
  • Value for money
    3 stars
Good Points

Excellent colour and detail. Excellent DVD and CD sound.


Bad Points

Region 2 only unless hardware modified. Have had a couple which had problems with superficial scratching.


General Comments

Having seen a friends Toshiba SD-220, (multi-region, macrovision disabled, from Techtronics), in action, I decided to get one, (multi region, from Richersounds), to upgrade from my old Alba DVD 103.

Unfortunately when I got it home I found it got very hot and kept locking up on some of my DVDs. I decided it must be faulty and took it back, as all my discs play no problems on my Alba, (and even on my PC).

My friend suggested I try my discs on his Toshiba. I did, and it played them all no probs, so I went back and got another.

Unfortunately when I got it home it kept locking up on some of my DVDs. (Again! But it didn't get hot at all. In fact it stayed cooler than my friends!) So I took it back.

However, what it did play was excellent, whether PAL DVD, NTSC DVD, or CD. It even played some CD-R's, (although refused some very cheap ones, which my friends SD-220 also refused to play).

If you can get one that doesn't turn it's nose up at a little marking or scratching, then it's brilliant. If you get one like the two I got, well, I wouldn't want to keep replacing my DVDs.

Techtronics charge currently charge £150 + VAT, (about £175) for the multi-region only version, while Richersounds charged me £135. However, the fact that I've had two players with less than satisfactory performance, (very unforgiving error correction or poor laser alignment I guess), brings both the Value for money and Overall Rating scores down. Value for money I have based on a satisfactorily working multi-region player at £175. Overall Rating on a combination of the performance of all three samples.

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Members' Comments onchurdy.'s Review

  • Dominic Shields. on 2nd Jan 2003

    Does the multi-region change need a hardware tweak ?
    At this website http://sd220e.chez.tiscali.fr you can download a firmware upgrade that does the bizz.