«Great when it worked»

We paid extra for a good name brand product that had good reviews. We wanted this exclusively for road trips with the kids in the van so we baby'd this thing. For the first road trip, it worked like a charm. We wouldn't let the kids touch it, kept it in it's special soft case we paid extra for so it would stay nice and last for years.
The following year we pulled it out for our next road trip. We headded out and started it up for the kids and it didn't work. Every disk said invalid disk. Extremely disappointed that we basically only used it for about 24-30 hrs.
Meanwhile our first cheap Mintek 7" portable player we bought 2 or 3 years earlier is still working fine. the screen has some black streaks because one of the kids stepped on it but it still works. We use it to connect to our TV and the kids have used and abused this thing. We are surprised it still works.
Back to the Toshiba. Even though we hardly used it, it was over a year later before we found out it didn't work anymore so the warranty is over and it would cost over $50 just to have someone look at it. Repairs would probably be another $50.
I think we will stick with the cheap disposable players if we are only gonna get 1 years worth out of it anyway. who knows we may get lucky like we did with the Mintek.

[Sunday, October 19, 2008]

«Defective Product»

I purchased this unit for use in the car using an audio/video adapter. Since it played through the existing video system (VHS) in my van, I have no comments on the audio/video ... never really used it. Having said that, we went through two of these units. The first one lasted probably 8-9 months. We had issues all along and would just get frustrated and change DVD's or something. Eventually, however, it reached a point it would not play anything. The DVD would spin - very quickly - and the player would not read the disk. Realizing that you always can end up with a lemon, we returned it - we luckily had purchased the store service plan.

Player No. 2 was worse. We had the same problems right out of the box. It failed much quicker than the first - less than 2 mos from start to finish - and with the same problem as the first. Given two players that behaved the same way, I have concluded Toshiba just designed a crappy product. At the end of the day, we returned No. 2 for a Sony. We were out some money (for the extended warranty) but not as much as if we had no warranty. We just got the Sony and haven't even tried it but I wouldn't recommend the Toshiba.

[Monday, October 13, 2008]

«Garbage»

Used four times, now out of warrantee and will not read disk.

JUNK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Wednesday, July 30, 2008]

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