Comments Toshiba SD-590E DVD Player - Blu-ray Player - review

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The SD-590E feels a bit like a middle-aged footballer approaching retirement, doing a solid, workmanlike job but unable to dazzle and excite like it did in the good old days. The lack of any radical design changes or new, dynamic additions to the previous generation's feature list makes it feel like Toshiba is resting on its laurels, happy that it has pushed DVD technology as far as it can. If it ain't broke don't fix it, so they say. Perhaps Toshiba is treading water until the Net Player comes along, but at least one new trick would have been nice, just to give people an incentive to upgrade - DivX HD playback perhaps or a daring new design concept à la LG and Samsung. But this lack of progression doesn't detract from the deck's inherent quality - the SD-590E is a superb little DVD player. The USB port and HDMI output bring it bang up to date with today's connection requirements, and the picture and sound quality is among the best you'll see at this sort of price. It's good enough to use as your main movie source in the living room, but would be equally at home in the bedroom thanks to its remarkably slim design. We just wish it played Blu-ray but let's not get bogged down in that again…

Overall

8/10

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Reviewed by Danny Phillips

04 June 2009

Price as reviewed

£49.99

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