It was a work-horse while it lasted. DVD's still look terrific, but CD's no longer play. It does not pay to repair the unit.
To Toshiba: Unplugging the unit did not work. Two years plus 5 months is too young to malfunction. For shame.

However, after 3-months of operation playing about 3 DVD a week the unit started stalling on scenes. Shortly thereafter, it would load a dvd or VCD (even new ones) then give the message "insert disk" or " wrong or bad disc. Some times it could not read the CD-RW like it was specified in its specification.

Apparently the player is unable to detect that the disk is already loaded. The unit appears to be fully operational except that it will not recgonize the disk just loaded.

First, we managed to get the disk playing after opening and closing the tray repeatly four or five times like some other reviewer. Especially for some low quality DCD or VCD, the player always ignored the disk or showed worse quality than if I put the same VCD or DVD into cheaper DVD player ( that I bought for about 40 dollars )I can get better picture quality. To me it seemed ridiculous. About some days later it refused to recgonize any DVD or CD that had been loaded into the tray and no amount of cycling the tray door helped. The message "insert disk" seemed appear alot of time.
At this time of reviews before purchasing unit, I haven't read anyone else who has encountered and reported this problem. Then I recognized that some others got the same situations like we do.
Finally, I am not so happy with this player.