Toshiba SD-3980 Progressive Scan DVD Player

Easy to use. Decent picture and sound

Stopped working after 5 months

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23% of reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

i got this player second hand for $5 and have experienced no problems whatsoever. it actually transitions between menus and the movie faster than any player i have seen before.

I purchased a Toshiba SD 3960 primarily for its all regions capability. Like everyone else within a year it began to give the error message that the disc was bad. This was with new DVDs right out of the package! Eventually it stopped playing any...

This player has a component known to fail and cause the device to be unable to read any disc. See [...] All discs are reported by the device to be "BAD." My player died after a short few months. Toshiba will replace the product IF AND ONLY IF it has a...

The player was in an excellent environment... level, clean, cool and no static. It mostly performed well until this last attempt to watch a movie when it could no longer read any disk... DVDs, MP3s, audio CDs. Tried unplugging to reset it and took off...

I received a Toshiba SD-3980-SU2 DVD player for Christmas 2005. I rarely used it. It died suddenly on 1/22/08 while playing a DVD. Now I get "bad" and "Incorrect Disc" messages whenever I try to load a CD or DVD. I can't even get the CD/DVD lens...

i got online today to see if i could troubleshoot before i gave my toshiba SD3980 to the local junk recycler, and found all these BAD reviews instead. as with you all, the tray became sluggish and every disk displayed "BAD". i decided to call toshiba...

Like other reviewers I have experienced the "Incorrect Disk" error after very minimal use. I won't even think of taking it in for a repair. Hello trash can.

I agree with the other negative reviews. I paid about $59 for it. This machine worked fine for about a year and a half, and maybe played 40 DVD's and a few CDs. Suddenly it refused to mount any discs whatsoever, giving an 'incorrect disc" reading. The...