Quote Originally Posted by N. Abstentia
Yeah the 5 disc Toshiba is the one I'm waiting for. The price is right, and I don't want a single disc player.
I bought the Toshiba player for $170 about 4 weeks ago and after 2 weeks of using it, returned it. Here's why:

- Excrutiatingly slow UI / remote response time
- Most standard audio features (such as sacd/cd layer change, shuffle, etc) require GUI access, and thus require extra steps and the TV to be on (extremely irritating for just music listening)
- Video performance was decent, but it's hard for me to tell as my TV is not that great. However, a thorough test I found online (I can look up the link of you want...) gave it poor video scores
- the SACD audio output sounded "compressed" and harsh. (I am suspicious that it may convert the DSD stream to PCM before output)
- Bass management only applies to DD/DTS output, *not* SACD
- The remote is poorly designed and incredibly irritating to use, even with video playback (who decided that the "up" arrow should also double as the play/pause button??)
- Toshiba even admitted on their website that many of the early models have a manufacturing defect (although it is fixable via a free firmware update)

After a *lot* of research, I finally found the Philips 795SA (a discontinued model) which i am very happy with. Excellent sound, direct-access to audio features, an interesting cd-upsamlping feature, better overall functionality and design. It has the *exact* same guts as the Yamaha DVD-C940 (except the Yammie ads a Faroudja dcdi deinterlacer).
*however* it does NOT play DVD-A or WMA. (not important to me)

Hope that helps.

You're welcome to try out the Toshiba, it might suit your needs. It just didn't work for me.