Toshiba SD-P1850 Portable DVD Player with 8" Widescreen LCD

Average customer rating: 4.0

wicked awsome dvd player!!
Toshiba Portable DVD
Plays everything
Don't leave for a family road trip without it...
A Very Good Player Plus It Plays PAL Discs Too!

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Toshiba SD-P1850 Portable DVD Player with 8" Widescreen LCD

Manufacturer: Toshiba
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B000ELC148

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Product Description

Toshiba SDP1850 has an 8 inch TFT LCD widescreen display and a battery that delievers up to 3.5 hours of playback. This interactive DVD player also has a feature to select an area of the picture to zoom in on and magnify. Enhanced digital processing during moving video or freeze-frame playback can be used to expand letterbox-only films to increase the viewable area onscreen. The 3D Virtual Surround Sound provides simulated surround sound effect from sources that contain only a stereo soundtrack. Perfect with the headphone output jacks. 2 Headphone Output Jacks Fast Scan, Slow Motion (1/2, 1/4, 1/8) 12-Bit, 54mHz Video D/A Converter 24-Bit, 192kHz Audio D/A Converter Remote Control Included JPEG Viewer Digital Picture Zoom 3-D Virtual Surround Sound Up To 3.5-Hour Lithium Ion Battery Car Cord Adapter Included Parental Lock Multi-Camera Angle Select Multi-Language Select Multi-Subtitle Select Tri-Lingual On-Screen Menus (English, French, Spanish & Japanese) Weight - 1.5 pounds, 2.2 pounds with battery Dimensions - Width 7.5 x Height 5.7 x Depth 1.2 inch

Amazon.com Product Description

Take your favorite entertainment on the road with you and keep your kids entertained during long car trips with the slim-profile Toshiba SD-P1850 portable DVD player with 8-inch LCD screen with 180-degree flip and swivel functionality. Its active matrix TFT LCD has a 480 x 234-pixel resolution with a 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio for watching movies in the format they were made to be watched, built-in stereo speakers, and a single headphone jack. You can view movies on an external TV set via either the AV or S-Video output connections. It also provides Dolby Digital surround sound decoding via the digital coaxial audio output connection.

It includes dual headphone jacks so you can share your movie experience with a partner, a rechargable battery with up to 4 hours of battery life, and a cigarette lighter adapter for powering the player while in the car. In addition to DVD movie and CD audio discs, it's also compatible with DVD-R, CD-R/RW and VCD discs. You can play discs burned with MP3 and WMA digital audio files, and it's also DivX Home Theater Certified--meaning that it's compatible with video burned to disc using both the DivX video format. You can also view photo slideshows from Kodak Picture CDs with JPEG images. The integrated multi-format memory card slot is compatible with Secure Digital (SD), MultiMedia (MMC), Memory Stic, and XD Picture Card formats, enabling you to view JPEG images and unencrypted MP3/WMA audio.

With the Digital Picture Zoom interactive feature, you can select an area of the picture you want to zoom in on and magnify it. It can also be used to expand letterbox-only films to increase the viewable area on-screen. Other convenience features include slow motion (1/8, 1/4, 1/2), parental locks, and 3D virtual surround sound. It includes both input and output composite AV jacks.

<b>Tech Talk</b>
DivX is a compressed digital video format (like MP3) that's based on the MPEG-4 video compression standard. It can reduce the video from a DVD (MPEG-2) to around 10 percent of its original size while still retaining good video and audio quality, enabling you to store several two-hour length movies on burned DVD media.

<b>What's in the Box</b>
Portable DVD player, remote control (with battery), car power adapter, AC adapter, AV cable, rechargable battery, printed operating instructions

Customer Reviews:

wicked awsome dvd player!!.......2007-05-19

i got this dvd player last november, and it has performed exquisitly ever since. the picture is really good. i like how thiers 2 headphone pluggins, so i can watch it with my best friend using the headphones. the sound is definately better on the headphones, but good either way. i love the portability! the battery runs for over six hours, and thir are attachments so i can watch it and charge it in the car. this is great. tottaly worth the money! definity buy it!!!

Toshiba Portable DVD .......2007-05-07

I purchased a portable dvd player for my child so we could have a nice distraction for traveling. The Divx capability and sale price were the selling points.
I've used other portable DVD players and on every one the built in speakers are never loud enough. And since the screen is so small I don't get too wrapped around quality. The Toshiba has a great battery life, it runs quiet and it comes with a 12v car adapter. People actually complain that it does not come with headphones, seriously? People, please invest in some nice headphones youll be much happier. If the Toshiba was not on sale I would have gotten the audiovox, or a cheaper player that was divx certified. The audiovox is a great player and is very durable. Gotta love the Divx 4 +hour dvds though.

Plays everything.......2007-04-10

Great product. Sounds and looks great. Plays divx no problem on any dvds i've tried which is quite a few. Won't play them off of cdrs though.

Don't leave for a family road trip without it..........2007-03-26

This DVD Player was worth every penny... just got back from a lengthy road trip with our 2 year old son and the DVD player kept him occupied and happy for the duration. The player was easy to use and operate, especially with the handy remote. We plugged the player into our cigarette lighter unit in our car, but it also has a rechargable battery unit with a decent life expectancy. The screen resolution was decent for such a small screen and although the sound quality wasn't great, it was loud enough for my son to watch and listen without headphones. We also enjoyed viewing photo slideshows by inserting our camera memory card into the player. All in all we're very happy with this product.

A Very Good Player Plus It Plays PAL Discs Too!.......2007-03-18

I find the Toshiba SD-P1850 to be a very good player. Granted I don't have any other portables to compare it to but I did a lot of comparisons and research before buying this.

Things I liked about the player:
1) Nice long battery life. About 4 hours under normal use is what I got and I know if I had a battery that only lasted 2-2 1/2 hours it would have driven me crazy.

2) A really good display. Video comes out looking sharp and the colors are very good. Of course you can change the video output to your liking through various adjustments.

3) Will play various formats. From MP3, WMA, JPG, Divx/Xvid to just plain CDs it'll play most of the formats out there.

4) One nice capability of the player is that for playing Divx/Xvid videos it can read them off of DVD-R, DVD+R, CD-R and to my surprise DVD-RW(unfinalized). I haven't used the memory slot yet but I'm sure it works fine there too. One thing to pay attention to is that the files have to be saved in the ISO 9660/UDF format. I was saving using Roxio's Drag-To-Disc program that came with my laptop and the player would not recognize the files on the disc. I first thought the Divx playing capability of the player was broken plus I burned 2 DVDs and a CD-R in the process before I figured out what the problem was. I finally used another program called Imgburn and that solved the problem.

Some of the quirks I find annoying with the player are as follows:
1) On fast-forward for 8X and 16X, as the video skips along the picture displayed is not the actual point where the video starts playing when you press Play but about a 30 seconds later. 2X and 4X actually are okay as the picture displayed will be where the video starts playing when you press Play.

2) Doesn't have a true Resume feature. If you press Stop once but don't turn off the player it will play where you stopped. If you press Stop twice it loses your place and will start from the beginning. Also it will lose your place when you turn it off. This may not seem a big deal but when you combine it with quirk #1 above, it gets kind of old when the chapter stops aren't exactly where you stopped in the first place.

Update: A workaround for doing a Resume feature is using the Bookmarks feature. It will even work when you press the Stop button twice.

3) As someone else stated on Divx/Xvid videos, the video is stretched to fill the 16:9 screen instead of being at 4:3 format for those videos that require a 4:3 format. This cannot be changed like you can with DVDs.

4) Speakers sound very 'tinny' compared to when you use a really nice set of headphones. The difference is night and day but then again this is a portable. I'm probably one of the few that is glad they didn't include any headsets as I would've thrown them away. Invest in a good headset i.e. Grado, Shure and Sennheiser to name a few, as they will make enjoying the movie/music that much better. It will cost more upfront but in the long run you will not have to buy a new headphone in a couple of years. There is an EQ Mode with the player and with a nice set of headphones you won't need this feature. The only reason they have this mode I think is to compensate for bad headphones. Life is too short to listen to crappy sound so get a nice pair of headphones. Your ears will thank you for it.

A surprise with this player is that while the manual states that it plays NTSC only, I put a PAL disc in and it actually played! This was a region free DVD and the disc would not play on my 2 other DVD players and a DVD recorder. To make sure this wasn't an anomaly, I've taken the PAL disc out numerous times and it has played it every time and all normal DVD functions are available. Also you can take the A/V cable that comes with the player, connect it to your TV and watch it there if you want.

Other 'undocumented' features included being able to enter the time to a specific location on Divx/Xvid videos, using the on-screen display for Divx/Xvid videos, and Divx/Xvid file names can be greater than 8.3 character format as given in the manual. I have file names for example that look like this "Filename.Xvid.English.avi"

Overall I'm very satisfied with the Toshiba SD-P1850 and would recommend it.

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