 TOSHIBA DST3000 HDTV/DIRECT RECEIVER |
| Review Date: April 4, 2002 |
| Reviewer: Steven L. Silva, FRESNO, CA United States |
| I HAVE HAD TWO SONY HD RECEIVERS BOTH OF THEM WENT OUT WITHIN A MONTH. AFTER THE SECOND ONE WENT OUT ON SUPER BOWL SUNDAY, I TOOK IT BACK TO AND THEY GAVE ME A TOSHIBA, I WASENT SURE IF I WOULD LIKE IT BUT EVERTHING ABOUT IT IS GREAT, ON SCREEN MENU WORKS GREAT AND IT IS VERY EASY TO USE THE REMOTE FOR EVERY THING YOU HAVE. I THINK TOSHIBA SHOULD GET 5 STARS FOR THIS GOOD PRICED UNIT. |
TOSHIBA DST-3000
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| Review Date: June 6, 2005 |
| Reviewer: Rahim Kalsi, Vienna, Va United States |
I was an early adopter of a Toshiba 40H80 Theater Wide HDTV and the DST-3000 back in late 2001. I have always been a fan of Toshibas products and to me they are top notch and for the most part have lived up to and exceeded thier expectations. The toshiba has an ATSC/HDTV tuner that recieves all 18 ATSC table 3 terresterial formats, an NTSC 181 channel vhf/uhf/cable tuner, and a direct tv/hd tuner and decoder. It can capture channels from a roof top or attic mounted antenna as well for local channels in analog or digital. The on screen menu guide is one of the fastest and easiest Ive ever used and it can automatically combine satelitte and non-satelitte channels, aloowing you to add or delete and auto scan for any available channels.
The tuner is very fast compared to the old Rca UTV I use and its powerful so not much tweaking of the antenna is necessary. Basic elements such as menu color and transparency are a nice touch. The setup of the reciever is straightforward and clean. It has composite, color stream component in and out, dolby digital out, s-video, rf control and ir control for a vcr.
It has no annoying fan, hum or motor noise due to its dolby
fanless heatsink design with perforations on the top bottom and sides. It does require adequate ventilation as it can get toasty but that should only be a problem for those people that enclose this in a glass door rack or other confined space. This was designed to have its own shelf space so dont stack it or place it on top of other components. If heat is an issue than you can get a high quality notebook cooler pad and place it underneath and you whould have no problems whatsoever. They now even make one that has heat pipe technology and no fan.
The DST can only output through its color-stream HD out at 1080i but this isnt a problem because of my Toshiba 40H80 which this resolution is native to. The picture quality is superb with very minimal to no artifacts and no ghosting of the image.
There have been alot of dissatisfied people that have bought this receiver but I can trully say the picture quality is superb and me having a Toshiba tv, I dont get convergence problems with it clipping or cropping the image. I dont get black bars or letter box woes and of they come up all I have to do is hit the theather wide button and it fills the screen perfectly.
I have been using this receiver on a older Sony 27" KV-27S22 Trinitron tv for the past year due to my other set dying on me and it works wonderfully converting everything to view on this 4:3 set. That was a concern for some ignorant posters in the past who just assumed it wouldnt work but it works perfectly and the picture quality is as good as cable. If the set had component ins and out then it would be soo much better.
This unit has fallen from otop my RPTV several times and has been caked with dust and been exposed to some hotter than normal room temperatures but it has never failed me. I feel the unit is well built and robust.
There are a couple of companies that will upgrade your DST-3000 with firewire ports so you can record HI-def directly to a HI-def vcr and I can attest that it works like a charm so I will be using this reciever for years to come. One company is www.169time.com |
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| Review Date: May 18, 2002 |
| Reviewer: Michael John Gariti, Pittsburgh, PA USA |
| I do not own this, nor do I know anyone who does. But, after reading the 1* review, I felt that consumers must know something about it: THIS RECIEVER WILL NOT DIGITALLIZE (OR POSSIBLY EVEN WORK WITH) A STANDARD TV. The TV MUST be either Digital or Digital-ready. If it works with an ordinary TV at all, it will not magically create an HDTV (hi-def) out of an NTSC (standard). |
It works great for me!
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| Review Date: November 6, 2002 |
| Reviewer: Thomas R. Urbanski, Oregon, OH United States |
| I've got all 3 DirectTV satellites, cable and a Terk HDTV antenna all connected to the box and it works great! Two things that I really like, (much better than the RCA DTC-100 it's replacing), was the fact that it has component video out and the channel guide has all of the satellite, cable and local reception on one guide --- including descriptions etc. for the local cable and broadcast stations. Again, unlike the RCA, I don't have to do any input switching to go from one source to another. I can select 24-1, (the local NBC HDTV broadcast station), and then select "206", satellite ESPN and jump back and forth hitting the "return" or "previous channel" button without any steps in the middle. The picture is, of course, tremendous on HDTV, great on satellite, variable depending on what cable station, and extremely good on all local broadcast stations coming off the Terk TV-35 antenna. I had some problems setting up the local stations initially, (that's why the "4"), but was extremely happy with the tremendous customer service Toshiba gave me. |
Toshiba DST3000
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| Review Date: July 8, 2002 |
| Reviewer: , Chicago, Il. USA |
| I have read a lot reviews, and surfed a lot of feedback about this product. Most is negative, but how many people write about something that is good? First you must be technicaly inclined. Second you must understand BASIC electronics. Nothing is as advertised! I purchased the dst300 in may of 2001; just for hdtv. GREAT! (with a good antenna) then I got greedy, and subscribed to Directv. (Just for hdtvnet. [cable [stunk] anyway]) Great also! I've had no major problems with this unit whatsoever. Maybe it has something to do with your particular set. I have a Pioneer hdtv set, but this unit may work perfect with a Toshiba; being a Toshiba. Yes, it has it's ups and downs, but as stated earlier who writes when it's good? I'm sure they've sold tens of thousands of these units, but only thousands of negative reviews! 4 stars instead of five, because of only 1080i hd reception (which is AWESOME!!!) but ABC and FOX broadcasts in different formats (grow up). CBS, NBC, PBS, HBO, SHOWTIME, HDNET, and sometimes wgn broad cast in 1080i which is the best format so far. |
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