Toshiba SD4700 Progressive-Scan DVD Player

Toshiba SD4700 Progressive-Scan DVD Player
Manufacturer: Toshiba
Product Type: CE

Editorial Review:
Product Description
Imagine how your friends and relatives would feel if you were able to bring the most intense and lifelike movie theater experience right into your living room. Imagine how they'd react to a picture that's sharper than laser disc and twice as sharp as standard VHS. Imagine how the value of your couch would increase if it were enveloped in Dolby Digital Surround Sound? This is what happens when you have a Toshiba DVD.As a developer of the DVD format, Toshiba consistently leads the industry in the introduction of technological breakthroughs and convenience features. Toshiba proudly offers the DVD Player SD4700 featuring 10-Bit 54 MHz Video D/A Conversion that provides rapid processing of the video signal with less signal loss, ensuring maximum image resolution and images free of artifacts. Super ColorStream Pro Progressive Component Video Output with Cinema Mode delivers the highest level of picture quality by allowing the video signal to be transferred and processed in separate elements. The SD4700 DVD Video Player not only delivers superior video and audio performance, it has all the connections necessary for a growing home entertainment system. The inherent quality and flexibility of Toshiba's SD4700 sets it apart from the competition.
Amazon.com Product Description
Toshiba offers enhanced digital technology for a minimum price with its high-end SD4700 progressive-scan DVD player. Capable of DVD-Video, DVD-Audio, CD, MP3, CD-R/RW and DVD-R playback, this player is great for movies, music, and DVD transfers of your home movies.

A 10-bit, high-sampling 54 MHz video digital-to-analog converter quickly and accurately reproduces video for high-quality pictures, abetted by Toshiba's top-of-the-line Super ColorStream Pro progressive-scan component-video output with Cinema Mode (3:2 pulldown), not to mention the company's Super Anti-alias Filter and 8:8:8 processing. The player offers parallel video outputs (interlaced) for serving multiple rooms, and a distinguished 540 lines of horizontal resolution.

Likewise, a 24-bit, 192 kHz audio digital-to-analog converter runs at twice the frequency of conventional DVD player audio DACs to provide superior sound reproduction from DVD-Videos, DVD-Audio discs, and CDs. Optical and coaxial digital-audio outputs facilitate hookup with a surround receiver for either Dolby Digital or DTS decoding, while decoded Dolby Digital sound is also available through the 5.1-channel analog outputs required to appreciate the full resolution of decoded DVD-Audio programs.

Additional features include progressive-scan video, which displays non-interlaced video with compatible TVs for smoother pictures with reduced flicker. Toshiba's Spatializer N-2-2 Virtual Surround Sound system simulates a four-speaker surround system using only two.

The SD4700 offers plenty of playback options as well, including an onscreen menu, strobe display, preview, multiple angles, 4-power zoom, and four scan speeds (up to 100x playback).

Average customer rating: 1.0

Attaching to network issues
File format problems
Bad Product!

COOLMAX.CN-550.NAS.RJ45 USB2.0 Netowrking.hard.drive.enclosure

Manufacturer: Global Marketing Partners
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B000CCOSZE

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Product Description

Coolmax Technology introduces an affordable SOHO Product. HNAS (Home Network Attached Storage) for home and small business users. Now you can access your files anywhere with this friendly network disk, which is Plug and Play ready; No prior networking experience is required. It supports Windows, Mac and Linux, operation systems. With the Coolmax CN-550 HNAS is easy to share data files through the Internet and easy to setup and operate. It adds great flexibility to your network. Coolmax extends the personal computing to a new powerful level. Coolmax - the name you can trust!

Customer Reviews:

Attaching to network issues.......2006-06-06

As mentioned in another review, you can only format with Fat32. Not a real good option for a network storage device.

The USB interface was recognized by the computer however, I could not access this device to set up for network use. I followed the instructions given to find this device and even access via the web interface. I was never able to configure this device. I spent 2 frustrating days attempting to configure it.

Went to the support web site and found very little information regarding this issue. Contacting support turned out to be fruitless.

I returned this device and bought another product which worked flawlessly.

File format problems.......2006-04-05

This product is only capable to format a hard drive in FAT32 format. This is neither the standard for the PC nor the Mac. If you have a pure PC or Mac network, I advise getting a NAS that uses the appropriate format.

The FAT32 format only makes sense if you use it as a cross-platform NAS. But even then it is pretty poor, as it requires tight rules for file names. I constantly ran into problems where back-ups got interrupted due to incorrect file names (too long, wrong characters).

I decided to send the product back and try my luck with a different one.

Bad Product!.......2006-03-21

I don't think I have ever been as disappointed in a computer related product as I was with this one. I highly suggest you avoid buying it. Repeated emails to Coolmax's customer support (support@coolmaxusa.com) went unanswered, and for that alone I feel a company doesn't' deserve my business.

The device worked fine through the USB 2.0 connection, but as a network storage device it was horrible. It never reached a data transfer rate above 8 Mbps even though it purports to be 100 Mbps. With that slow of a transfer the device was completely useless to me. I bought it with the intention of centralizing and scheduling/automating backups for all of my family's PCs -- which entail approximately 120 gigs of data that needs to be backed up on a bi-weekly basis. At 8 Mbps the backups would never finish. In fact, at 8 Mbps there isn't much practical use for this product unless you are just planning on saving a few very small files on it. I don't know if this was a defect in the product I purchased, or in the product line itself because, again, their customer support doesn't answer their emails.

To add to the frustration the device looses its name and workgroup every time you reboot it!

I finally had to return this item to Amazon.com for a full refund.

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