Toshiba SD-350e Crashing due to poor Ventilation?!?

[Mattigan]

I got a Toshiba 350e from Richer Sounds before Christmas, and will be returning it this week as it has an annoying habit of freezing for 5 seconds after approximately 45 minutes of viewing, and the totally crashing after another 20 minutes.

Personally I think the problem is due to my set up requiring the DVD player to be enclosed in a tight space as it gets very hot before it falls over.

So if you're looking at buying one of these but don't have adequate ventilation then I would give it a miss.

On a more positive note, does anyone have any suggestions on what I should swap it out for? the Denon 1920 looks like a good bet as I would prefer a HDMI connection.

[WeirdFish]

I wouldn't be too quick to blame ventilation. Freezing & locking up is what the 350 is becoming infamous for , and the reason I never bought one. Have a read of the Denon 1920 threads too which will enlighten you to a lip sync problem, although it seems nowhere near as common as the tosh freezing.

[JagoPlasma]

my 360 and tosh were in the same stand, both have ventilation all around, the tosh still crashed, i never tried watching a movie without the upscaling so that may be why

my 360 has never crashed btw