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Note: Toshiba SD-3960 DVD Player is no longer being manufactured. You may want to consider purchasing the newer Toshiba SD-3980 DVD Player instead.

The high-end SD-3960 DVD player from Toshiba delivers a stunningly clear picture and fantastic surround sound, making it a perfect addition to your home theater. Utilizing Toshiba's ColorStream Pro progressive-scan video technology, the SD-3960 yields vivid colors, clean resolution, and reduced onscreen distortion. A 10-bit/54-MHz digital-to-analog video signal converter also assists in reproducing your DVDs in theaterlike clarity. While the SD-3960 is compatible with both analog and digital televisions, you will achieve optimum picture quality by using the player with a high-definition-compatible television.

You can take full advantage of the visual clarity of the SD-3960 with its versatile digital picture zoom option. The zoom feature lets you magnify a portion of the picture onscreen while in freeze-frame mode or even while watching a DVD in real time. The feature is great for spotting details in movies or even adjusting letterboxed movies to fill your screen.

The SD-3960 plays DVDs, DVD-Rs, and CDs, so you can enjoy all your favorite videos and music. You can also play MP3s and view digital JPEG photos from CDs created in your computer with the SD-3960.

The SD-3960 gives you more than a great picture. You also get vivid, realistic sound, thanks to Toshiba's 24-bit/192 kHz pulse code modulation (PCM) audio processor. PCM audio translates digital signals from your DVDs and CDs into warmer, natural sound. For a cinematic surround-sound experience, you can easily connect the SD-3960 to a home theater receiver with an RCA-type connection. The SD-3960 features Dolby Digital and DTS surround-sound output.

The SD-3960 gives a sonic boost to any home theater, even a setup with just stereo speakers. The SD-3960's virtual surround-sound capability creates a simulated surround experience from any DVD or CD recorded in stereo.

What's in the Box
SD-3960 DVD player, remote control, owner's manual.


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Buyer's feedback: - *
This player was a gift for my father in law a couple years ago. One of ours died, and he didn't need it any more so he gave it to us. It works fine except for one annoying feature we've had almost from the start (we've had it about a year). The problem is the disc drawer won't open about 80% of the time. We either have to get finger nails in the top/sides while hitting the eject button, or by pressing/tapping hard on the top right above the drawer. Then half the time after getting it to open, it will close right back up so you have to hold the drawer open while putting in the disc.

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Buyer's feedback: - Whiners
I bought this when I couldn't afford much more. It worked okay, but it has with it several annoyances.

First of all, when ever there is a flash of bright light during a movie like an explosion or a quick change of image, the screen flickers. This doesn't happen during regular TV programming. It's rather annoying to have the screen flicker during action sequences so many times. Or when there are flashes of images during an intense scene.

Then there is the chirping. This DVD play emits a loud and high pitch noise as it plays dvds. Sometimes I can tap it to make it softer, but it's still really annoying.

Another thing is that it takes a long time to eject a DVD. It takes so long, and I end up pushing it again to see if it works, then it ejects and pulls back in and I have to wait again.

Don't buy this, it's really annoying.

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Buyer's feedback: - *
Given another chance, I would gladly go back and spend the extra $20-30 for a quality DVD player. I quickly began to suspect poor workmanship when I first turned the player on and it told me "no" instead of "on," a small issue but a sign of things to come. It struggles to pick up the signal from the remote, often requiring several attempts for any command, and then takes hesitates for several seconds before responding. The information given on the small screen is limited and not terribly helpful. Also there are no arrow buttons on the actual DVD player so if you lose the remote and Your DVD's menu doesn't start on the "play movie" option, you're out of luck.

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Buyer's feedback: - Too many problems
Just after a few months of owning it I ran into the same audio-dying problem that others have run into, and then it was totally worthless. WTF? Not only that, but also from the day I got it this thing it has never once had the ability to remember the last place I was watching. As soon as I hit stop or turn the unit off, all memory gets lost and the next time I hit Play I'm forced to start all over again from the very beginning of the DVD. I trashed and replaced this thing with a Sony and have been very happy ever since.

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Buyer's feedback: - *
I bought this thing because I have another Toshiba DVD player (SD-3750) which is a very good DVD player. Unfortunately the 3960 is a terrible DVD player. Even when it worked it was very slow at starting up, seeking, and starting the movie. It quit working about a year after I bought it, specifically the svideo output quit, the audio quit, and all I was left with was composite video out. Not sure about component because I didn't have a tv with that feature. The DVD player is now in the trash.