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Toshiba XDE500 DVD Player with Advanced Upscaling Technology | 
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| Brand: Toshiba
Category: CE
List Price: £119.99
Buy New: £85.00
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Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 1160
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 13.2
Dimensions (in): 19 x 11.7 x 4.3
MPN: XDE500
Model: XDE500
EAN: 5017151622383
ASIN: B001ELK374
Release Date: September 24, 2008
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | DVD/-R/-RW/+R/+RW CD/-R/-RW Play | | • | 1080 Upscaling via HDMI | | • | JPEG, DivX version 6 & MP3 Play | | • | Composite, Scart & HDMI Output | | • | XDE technology |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 11 more reviews...
 Very good, but its all about the discs you play in it!! January 7, 2009
I have recently taken the plunge into Blu Ray and will be purchasing only these from now on but due to the fact that I have a massive number of standard DVD's I was not particularly keen to replace all my existing DVD titles with Blu Ray titles - pretty expensive to do that!!. When I saw this player advertised (along with the promises from Toshiba of near HD quality from standard DVD's) I decided to get hold of one. The result is, in the main, very good. It certainly does make standard DVD images much clearer and sharper, however there is a 'BUT' to this and this is that this player essentially lives and dies according to the quality of the DVD you play in it! If the disc has been manufactured and encoded well (by the studio)the results are absolutely fantastic but if the disc is poorly encoded (with a low bit rate) the results are not as good! No hardware/player can make any software/disc look better if the material on the disc isn't there in the first place!! I tried a well encoded DVD (Pixar's Toy Story)and the picture was as near Blu Ray quality as it can be without being HD - if a Blu Ray version of this film is ever brought out I wont need to buy it!! However with older and poorly encoded discs the results are variable and I sometimes ended up turning off the picture enhancement modes. It is still a great upscaler (I view in 1080i mode on a 50" plasma) even with the enhancement options turned off. The best enhancement mode is 'Sharp' giving extra edge detail and the player always starts, every time, with this engaged. With poor discs (with Sharp mode engaged) it will 'enhance' any grain and MPEG compression noise in the picture which can make it look horrific and distracting - so don't be afraid to turn off the enhancement options. In conclusion this player does live up to Toshibas claims and I am very glad I got hold of one; but be careful of the DVD's that you feed into it!!
 won't play non-comercial recorded discs January 3, 2009
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Though this product claims DVD +/- R/RW compatability, for me, it isn't. It will play none of the +R or +RW discs made on my Lite-On DVD recorder and only about 1 in 3 of the +R DVD discs made in my or other peoples computer recorder, despite the fact that these discs play fine in the other 3 ordinary, cheap-from-Asda DVD players I have in the house. Toshiba help-line tell me that the unit is not faulty, just very demanding in its requirements for discs and that this is because expensive players in general tend to be more demanding in the quality of the discs they will play.
I would expect the more expensive players to have a wider range in abilities, not lesser and so for me this was a bad purchase of a machine that doesn't do what it says it does.
Essential if you have a large DVD collection December 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Bought this at a bargain price from Amazon (the price has risen again, why ??) but even if you pay full price for this baby, it's worth the dosh...
Using the 'sharp' mode as well as HD upscaling, provides superb picture quality with any good quality standard DVD release, very, very close to genuine high definition viewing. As well as the unique sharp mode and 1080p upscaling, this machine will also do 1080p/24 frames per second, for standard DVD discs !! (My blu-ray player will only output 24fps with blu ray discs, but maybe other machines do this for standard DVDs ? I'm not certain though...) The machine will also output 5.1 sound directly via HDMI, my previous DVD player couldn't do that, but again maybe this feature is commonplace now...
The only bad points, : build quality and the remote control are nothing special, there is a high pitched noise (only noticeable in the dead of night, you wouldn't generally hear it), and it's no good for 4:3 discs, but I have few of those and am happy to watch them stretched anyway..
If you have a large DVD collection, keep them all and buy this player, it will be far cheaper than replacing them on blu ray...Also many of the blu ray re-releases will not be specially great on picture quality anyway, whilst this baby will enhance definition beautifully....
Great value for money! December 10, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Needed to replace our 6 year old DVD player as it had started not detecting DVDs that it had been able to play. Looked at various models but this one had everything we needed except multi-region (see another review on how to fix that).
Worked straight out of the box - detected 1080i HDMI setting for the TV and we've been really impressed with the new sharpness & clarity of our DVDs. No problem with the remote as mentioned by another review. Very quiet operation too.
Great upscaling player! December 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I find the upscaling prowess of this player to be awesome, giving a superbly detailed picture, much better than I was expecting, and representing fine value for the money.
I also find the controls/buttons on both the player and remote to be quick and responsive; no problems at all.
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