Toshiba XD-E600 Upscaling DVD Player Review Comments

Reviewed by David Mackenzie
If you need a DVD-only player for a second room (or for whatever other reason), then Toshiba's machine will do a good job.
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Thanks for the review David. Not that I am in the market but having at one point owned the XDE-500, I think this series of Toshiba players has been unfairly panned by some. I was very happy with its performance and only moved the 500 on after I bought the Oppo.

On a disappointing note, I hear that whereas 500 was easy to make multi-region, no code exists for the 600; and that trying to make it multi-region, may in fact brick it.

What file types are supported by the machine?...can I connect a USB stick and play .avi files through this machine?

Best wishes
Garyscottmagic

AV forums seems to become very pushy towards Blu-Ray part of me understands why, but many of us are happy with DVD and don't see Blu as a worth while investment. Is the DVD picture from the player better/worse or pretty much the same to the £99 BluRay players that the review suggests buying otherwise, or is BluRay format being pushed as a better all round solution?

Having a policy of only reviewing Blu although its been around for a while now does mean that some releases like indy titles and tv series miss out (with the exeception of big budget ones like Battlestar). I honestly don't find myself reading my 'software' reviews here, partially because of that, for big releases though only reviewing Blu is probably fine as its understandable that peoples time is limited (a comparison would be an added incentive to read the review though).

I personally find a good DVD transfer when upscaled, with my player anyway, is close enough to BluRay for me, and poor transfers exist on both mediums.
Maybe I'm just a scrudge, and what's the point of high end equipment if you can't use it to its maximum? But I get immense enjoyment out of 'legacy' equipment and always blow friends/family away with the image and sound quality available from DVD.