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The Toshiba SD-4990 is the kind of upconverting progressive scan DVD player that should be the center piece of your home theater system…    Well it should be…

The Toshiba Sd-4990 comes with all of the bells and whistles like HDMI output, Divx playback, plays mp3s and WMA. Yes, it runs 1080i and 720. Five minutes into testing out this bad boy, the DVD I poped in mysteriously paused. It only lasted a few seconds before it started playing again. At first I thought it was something wrong with the DVD, 2 DVD’s later and looking through the Amazon User reviews, it isn’t uncommon with this player to pause and start again.

DIVX playback is great. Divx 5.1 is supported so quality good… one of the better looking DIVX players ever used.

Overall if it wasn’t for the pause issue, this would be a great DVD… Hopefully Toshiba can figure out a firmware upgrade.

OVERALL grade: D+ Great DIVX player, terrible at playing DVD’s

One of the cooler DIY hacks on the Instructables website is a Lite-Bright style mod for your fridge.  

With the easy instructions and a trip to the hardware store, you can get your own set up pretty quickly…  Although you might not want to touch it  with wet hands.

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