Toshiba XD-E500

The Toshiba XD-E500 is an up-converting DVD player from Toshiba. While recently released, the XD-E500 is not revolutionary, with no support for high definition HD-DVD or Blu-ray discs. Instead, this regular DVD player up-converts regular DVD-quality 480p, creating a full 1080p signal that appears better on high definition screens. This unit features the same upconverting processor as Toshiba's other high-end upconverting player, the SD-6100, with the addition of the "XDE" post-processing engine. This extra processing chip performs three main enhancements to: sharpness, color and contrast. There are 4 different picture modes available, though it seems that not all three enhancements can be active at the same time.

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Toshiba XD-E500
MSRP $150.00
Release date August, 2008
Brand Toshiba
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Pros & Cons

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Pros:
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Picture quality that competes with more expensive DVD players
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Outputs a 24FPS picture which is rare in this price range
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Enhanced sharpness works without introducing extra artifacts
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Cons:
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Color mode can sometimes make colors look artificial
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Limited picture adjustment settings
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Very bad tray design
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Details

Features

  •  Weight: 3.5 lbs
  • Dimensions: 16.93 x 1.97 x 7.80 (WxHxD
  • 1080p/24Hz output mode
  • XDE processing engine
  • Back pannel interface: ColorStream Pro® Component Video Output, S-Video, RCA Video Outputs (1),  L-R Audio (1), Coaxial Outputs (1), HDMI™-CEC (1), Digital Optical Output

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Comments

1.  avatar meNNis said:

I plan to buy one of these before too long. I refuse to buy into Sony and their BluRay craptastic DRM.
Sep 02, 2008 7:12pm
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This report was started September 1, 2008 at 6:38 pm by yale, with the last edit occurring September 2, 2008 at 7:12 pm by meNNis
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*meNNis @ 9/2/2008 7:12:46 PM

  • commented: "I plan to buy one of these before too long. I refuse to buy into Sony and their BluRay craptastic DRM. "

*meNNis @ 9/2/2008 7:11:19 PM

  • agreed: "Outputs a 24FPS picture which is rare in this price range"
  • agreed: "Picture quality that competes with more expensive DVD players"
  • tapped as "want it"

*Omar @ 9/2/2008 11:37:10 AM

*Omar @ 9/2/2008 11:34:45 AM

*yale @ 9/1/2008 6:49:20 PM

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This product is also known as:
XD, E, 500, XDE, E500, XDE500