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Toshiba SD-3980 Progressive Scan DVD Player

Toshiba SD-3980 Progressive Scan DVD Player

208 reviews

Nov, 2024

Positive
price (47)
usability (26)
image quality (12)
design (11)

Negative
reliability (35)
size (4)

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alaTest has collected and analyzed 208 reviews of Toshiba SD-3980 Progressive Scan DVD Player. The average rating for this product is 1.9/5, compared to an average rating of 3.7/5 for other Digital Video Recorders (DVR) for all reviews. People are impressed by the design and image quality. The usability and price also get good feedback. There are some less positive reviews about the size and reliability.

price, usability, image quality, design

reliability, size

We analyzed user and expert ratings, product age and more factors. Compared to other Digital Video Recorders (DVR) the Toshiba SD-3980 Progressive Scan DVD Player is awarded an overall alaScore™ of 55/100 = Good quality.

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Consumer review (amazon.com)

Amazon.com review summary for Toshiba SD-3980 Progressive Scan DVD Player

alaTest has collected and analyzed 191 user reviews of Toshiba SD-3980 Progressive Scan DVD Player from Amazon.com. The average user rating for this product is 1.8/5, compared to an average user rating of 3.5/5 for other Digital Video Recorders (DVR) on Amazon.com. Reviewers really like the design and image quality. The usability and price also get good feedback, whereas the size and reliability get less positive comments.

price, usability, image quality, design

reliability, size

24% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Nov, 2024

Consumer review (newegg.com)

Plays Pal Disks

Good unit easy to use

None

Feb, 2006

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Decent

Sleek, plenty of features

Buggy, freezes now and then and you need to unplug the unit for a bit to reset it. Not as good as some models reading burned disks but okay. Price was cheap enough

Jan, 2006

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

2 months and broke

Toshiba used to be the ticket but now it's not.

Decent unit when it worked

poor quality, broke in 2 months

Jan, 2006

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Bad DVD player

Looks nice. Low price

Broke two weeks after I got it. Doesn't play DVDs anymore, and I don't have the original packaging to return it (threw it out after I tested it the first time)

Jan, 2006

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

worst elextronic purchase I have made

I used to trust Toshiba but the last several items have me severely questioning the bran, and I am checking out other Brans more closely

size

slowly stopped playing movies afyer a very short time...numerous stoppages and skips even after cleaning. when yo push the open/eject button, 9 out of 10 times the door opens one inch and then closes...you actually have to grab the door and hit open...

Dec, 2005

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Don't buy it

I bought this DVD player two weeks ago now it stopped wroking. I doesn't recognize any type of disk,no matter music CD,Video CD or DVD.It just says "bad disk" what ever disk I put into it

Dec, 2005

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Excellent DVD Player

Ordered the DVD Unit on 11/22/05 and received it on 11/23/05. I've played 6 DVD's so far, and all were flawless. Unit is really compact and buttons/controls all logically and conveniently laid out. The Remote is also logical, of good quality and easy...

Nov, 2005

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Consumer review (epinions.com)