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Get the most from DVDs and CDs with Toshiba's SD-3950 single-disc DVD player, whose ultimate progressive-scan ColorStream Pro component-video outputs produce seamless, flicker-free images with high-definition and HD-ready TVs. Built-in MP3 and WMA (Windows Media Audio) decoding let you compile music on a PC and listen to it on a stereo or TV, and you can even watch customized digital-picture slideshows using recordable CDs filled with standard JPEG image files.

Whether your living room is currently home to an HDTV or you're merely thinking of "someday," the SD-3950 stands ready to deliver the full potential of DVDs. Progressive scanning, referred to as 480p for the number of horizontal lines that compose the video image, creates a picture using twice the scan lines of a conventional DVD picture, giving higher resolution and sharper images while eliminating nearly all motion artifacts.

The SD-3950 also performs 3:2 pulldown. DVD mastering introduces a common distortion when adjusting 24 frames-per-second movies to 30 fps video; 3:2 pulldown digitally corrects this distortion. Conventional composite- and S-video outputs bring compatibility with nearly any television. The "expanded" mode in the player's black-level setting produces richer, deeper black tones in every image. PLUGE (Picture Line Up Generation Equipment) delivers black as well as below-black signals to a television.

A set of left/right analog-audio outputs channel audio to Dolby Pro Logic receivers and stereo televisions. Both Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1-channel surround-sound signals can be routed through the player's digital-audio output (coaxial) for direct connection to a full-featured audio/video receiver. The player's internal digital-to-analog converters work at 24-bit, 192 kHz resolution to ensure optimum sonic quality from a range of digital program material.

Enhanced Audio Mode (E.A.M.) offers three sound settings: normal (off), 3-D (virtual surround sound enhancement), and dialogue expander (which enhances center-channel frequencies in the range of human voices during playback of multichannel content). Other playback options include Power Picture Zoom (which lets you magnify a select area of an image), bookmarking (up to nine marks), and parental lock.

What's in the Box
DVD player, remote control, remote batteries, a user's manual, and a stereo analog audio interconnect/composite-video cable.

From the Manufacturer
With innovations that provide flawless picture performance, unequaled color detail, and studio-quality sound, Toshiba is your source for the very best in DVD, and the SD-3950 meets all your expectations and more.

Features include:

• ColorStream (component video output): Offers a more than 200 percent improvement in color compared to an S-video output jack. These outputs allow the highest-quality video signal to be sent from the DVD player to a component-video-equipped TV. When this connection is utilized, typical NTSC artifacts--like video noise and dot crawl--are virtually eliminated, resulting in a low-noise, highly detailed picture with unequaled color purity.
• Digital cinema progressive (3:2 pulldown): Delivers the smoothest, most film-like images to any progressive scan television, such as an HD-compatible one, and ensures maximum resolution.
• Video black level expansion: Provides greater contrast and richer black tones.
• PLUGE (picture line up generation equipment): Enables consumer to properly set brightness controls on their connected display device.
• Power picture zoom: This interactive feature allows you to select an area of the picture you want to zoom in on and magnify it. Enhanced digital processing during moving video or freeze-frame playback produces superior color fidelity and resolution, even when you're zoomed in. Also can be used to expand letterbox-only films to increase the viewable area on-screen.
• Coaxial and optical TosLink digital audio output: Sends the audio signal to an audio/video receiver in its digital form allowing access to the Dolby Digital/DTS track encoded on the DVD disc.
• MP3- and WMA-compatible audio playback: Expands the players' functionality to include playback of custom music collections encoded via MP3 or Windows Media Audio (WMA) digital audio format onto CD-R or CD-RW media.
• EAM (enhanced audio mode): Provides appropriate sound enhancement for different DVD technologies.
• JPEG viewer: The Toshiba JPEG viewer enables a user to display digital photographs, created on a personal computer in the JPEG digital format, on any television. An intuitive onscreen display assists in the creation of customized slideshows with a few simple clicks of the DVD player's remote control.
• Bookmarks: Players with this feature let users virtually mark favorite locations/scenes on discs inside the player. The bookmark feature provides quick access to those scenes the user wants to view again or demonstrate to a friend. Select players offer up to nine bookmarks for greater accessibility.