Toshiba SD K740 - DVD player

Toshiba SD K740 - DVD player
Manufacturer: Toshiba
Product Type: CE

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Product Description
Reliability. Performance. Technology. Leadership. The Toshiba name means all this and more. Toshiba builds upon this heritage by delivering the industry's most innovative, high-quality solutions.Digital Cinema Progressive provides smoother, clearer picture from discs encoded at 24 frames per second. Especially useful for highly detailed or fast-moving images.JPEG Viewer1 enables the display of digital photographs captured in the JPEG format. Simply load the CD with your favorite photos and create custom slide shows with a few simple clicks of the player's remote control.3-D Virtual Surround Sound provides a simulated surround sound effect from sources that contain only a stereo soundtrack. Convenient when playing older DVD films or for use with home theaters not equipped with multi-channel playback compatibility. Also active via the headphone output jacks.

Average customer rating: 2.5

Vivonic out of business
Poor customer support
Can you say "Quality control issues"?
This is EXACTLY what I was looking for!
I was all set to love this product, but...

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Vivonic Fitness Planner Mini Handheld

Manufacturer: Vivonic
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B000050GAX

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Product Description

The Vivonic Fitness Planner helps you to identify your fitness goals to create a customized exercise and nutrition plan just for you. It intuitively learns who you are through a series of in-depth profile questions (personal preferences, your schedule, regular activities, current exercise regimen and any related medical issues). Download your plan to the portable, rugged, handheld Vivonic Fitness Planner, and use the calorie and exercise tracking programs that you can access through the touch screen interface. Tracking your activities and calories has never been this convenient. Get instant reports to track your progress and see where you need to adjust to meet your goals. It's that easy! If you are a runner or walker, this Vivonic Fitness Planner is for you! There's an integrated pedometer, which tracks your time and distance to estimate calories burned. It's easy to then log it into your daily exercise journal. The integrated pedometer is available only in this handheld Vivonic Fitness Planner.

Amazon.com Product Description

Like a personal trainer in a box, the Vivonic Fitness Planner helps you keep track of your fitness goals, workouts, and eating habits. The system works by first using Vivonic fitness software on your PC to assess your needs and goals through a series of in-depth questions. With information about your preferences, schedule, regular activities, current exercise regimen, and medical issues, you can then determine your fitness goals and how long you want the plan to last. The Vivonic software then recommends a personalized workout with computer animations to help you understand unfamiliar exercises. Download your plan from your PC to the Vivonic Fitness Planner, and you're ready to go.

The Fitness Planner allows you to access exercise and calorie tracking programs through the touch screen interface. It tracks your sets, repetitions, weights, and even seat settings (for machine-based exercises). You can also easily add your own foods into the database and view nutritional details of what you've eaten. The planner gives you weekly totals of calories consumed, grams of fat, sodium, and cholesterol. The built-in pedometer tracks your walking or running miles.

The Fitness Planner is designed for sports use with a rubber-wrapped sports grip and a belt clip. The unit runs on two AA batteries (not included) and comes with a belt clip, Vivonic PC software on CD-ROM, stylus, a serial cable connector, and a manual.

Customer Reviews:

Vivonic out of business.......2007-04-28

I am amazed that this product is still being sold. Vivonic went out of business years ago, so there is absolutely no support for this product or the software.

Poor customer support.......2004-02-07

I purchased the product and and have repeatedly tried to contact the tech support line listed in the liturature by phone and e-mail with no response. I am very disapointed and the productr is unusable. What a ripoff.

Can you say "Quality control issues"?.......2001-06-15

Like the reviewer from Baltimore, I was psyched to enjoy this device. Not three hours after unwrapping it, though, and it's already dead. Got all of my meals from the past week logged in (I had been keeping track on paper in anticipation of receiving the gizmo), entered in all of my personal info, hit the journal key, and...nothing. Well, not nothing. More like 10 lines of gibberish on the screen. Did a soft reset. No change. Took the batteries out, put them in. Blank screen.

So...

I called customer support (and sat on hold for 10 minutes of a non-800 long distance call before I even spoke to a rep). Did a hard reset over the phone. Nothing. Again. Nothing. Finally, rep said they'll send a new one out to me. How do I send the old one back, I asked. "Oh, we're not doing that anymore," says the rep. "We'll just send you a new one and you can toss the broken one." Get the impression that this is more than just an isolated incident?

So I'm getting a replacement device. Wonderful. And if THAT one fails, then what? Do they just keep sending me new ones every couple of days?

In the meantime, I'm back to paper and pen.

Here's some advice: For way less than what this device costs, you can pick up a discontinued Palm IIIxe from Staples.com. Get that, then order the Vivonic software for the Palm from. For LESS than the cost of the Vivonic handheld alone, you've not only got all the functionality of the Vivonic handheld device, but a Palm Pilot to boot.

This is EXACTLY what I was looking for!.......2001-05-10

As a personal fitness trainer, a martial artist and someone concerned with caloric intake, I needed something that wasn't going to bog me down. This is a phenomenal machine that tracks anything I want it to! I found out that some foods I ate too much of and others too little. I also track the amount of cardiovascular time, weight increases/decreases, etc. I am really amazed by this product! It is worth every penny!

I was all set to love this product, but..........2001-04-20

It broke the first day. I was at the gym with that day's routine stored in the database when the screen froze. Soft reset. Sync. Soft reset. Error message. Hard reset now impossible. Called tech support. Not familiar with that error message. (If not them...?) Tech support would call back. Had a replacement in my hands before tech support called back. (They never did.) I'm giving it another try because even though my experience was frustrating and the software isn't perfect, the idea is a good one. Still, consider buying a Handspring Visor (more reliable) and just get the Palm software. If the Vivonic hardware fails again, that's what I'll do. (Plus I'll be back with a one-star review.)

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