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Portable DVD Player with 8 inch Twisting High Resolution LCD Screen....
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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful.
Woeful sound but excellent in all other regards!
By Dr. Richard J. Pickard
I recently bought this Sony DVD player after having looked at most of the competing models available. I think there are several points which recommend this over other playersFirstly the build quality is top notch with a nice rotating screen.Secondly The screen resolution is now excellent on this latest sony model with 800x480 pixels which is over 4 times the resolution of most other models on the market. The resolution is very similar to watching DVDs on a conventional TV. I had initially bought a Philips model but its resolution was very poor (think pirated VHS tape quality). I was unable to read even opening film credits it was that bad. I therefore returned the Philips and bought this.Thirdly the battery life is very good at a stated 6.5 hrs. Sony do say in the small print that this is only if you use it with earphones and on low level brightness. However I have certainly acheived 4 to 5 hrs on normal brightness with earphones. The battery is incidentally Lithium Ion not the cheaper NiMg batteries you get on other players and fits discetely on the bottom of the player.So are there any downs? Well the big one is sound which really is very poor. It is certainly not loud enough to watch it on a plane or in a car unless you use earphones which is what I suspect it is really designed for. To this end it has 2 earphone jacks. It also comes with conventional and car chargers as well as a carry case and remote. You can also use it as a DVD player if you go away by plugging it into a TV with the video/audio outputs (which is the only time you really need the remote).In summary an excellent quality player with beautiful screen resolution but you will have to buy earphones!
19 of 22 people found the following review helpful.Sony DVPFX850B Portable DVD Player
By Robert Marazzato
This unit has the build quality you would expect from Sony, and it feels like a serious piece of kit. The screen is one of the best available with its 800 x 480 pixel resolution. I would estimate the useful viewing angle to be around 90 degrees. The battery clips on at the bottom of the player, and is not required if plugged in via the mains adapter or via the car plug. It also has a "video in" socket so you can use it as a monitor. The USB connection can be used to access thumb drives, but only JPG and MP3 files can be played from it. It will not play movie files from the USB port. There is an optical-out audio link, but Sony did not provide the cable for that. The accessories that are included: Remote control, AC power adaptor, 12 V car cigarette lighter adaptor, and stereo audio and composite video cable, and carry bag. Sadly, there is no s-video or component video output on the player. A waste of the 12 bit video DAC in my opinion. The sound from the inbuilt speakers is barely acceptable, and you will need to provide and use your own headphones or external speakers. There are 2 headphone sockets so you can listen with someone else. The carry bag feels cheap and tacky. It almost feels wrong to put such a nice player in it! Mine was a tight fit. They should have made a better felt-lined bag.Even with it's faults, this is still one of the best disk spinners out there, primarily thanks to its awesome screen.PROS: Swivel screen transforms from "laptop" mode to "tablet" mode.800 x 480 screen is amazingly clear.Good build quality.CONS: As with most portable DVD players, not all content is presented in full screen. Unless it is 16:9, it will display in "black box" with black bars all around. 4:3 content displays with black bars on either side. High price.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.Great little DVD player
By Anton Altaparmakov
This is a great little DVD player - we in fact bought two of them together with a cable to connect the two so we can put the same DVD playing on both at the same time which works very well in the car - one player for the second row of seats and one for the third row. The playback quality is fantastic - it blows other small player like that completely out of the water. The sound is a bit tinny but with external speakers or headphones this is remedied and even with the builtin speakers in the car it is fine for the children to watch their films.Even comes with a remote so we can control it from the front of the car without having to lean over the seats into the back which is very convenient.The one thing it does not come with is a case to hang in the car so we bought some on ebay which work brilliantly (we got one to hang it between the two front seats and one to hang off the head rest of the read middle seat - both work perfectly)...There are two somewhat negative points though:1) The screen is highly glossy/reflective so in the car if the sun is coming from the side you simply cannot see anything on the screen from some angles - it behaves like a mirror in those circumstances. But if the sun is overhead, behind or in front it is fine and the glossy screen does give deep blacks and vibrant colours so it is probably worth it on balance.2) Not all DVDs work. Some work perfectly and some simply don't. The drive has to keep rereading bits and playback keeps stalling. For example Harry Potter 5 simply is unwatchable (yet same DVD works fine in our Playstation 3 and in my MacBook Pro laptop) but Curious George, Thomas and the Magic Railroad, Night in the Museum and numerous other films work perfectly so it just seems to be a little bit picky which can be annoying if you really wanted to watch a DVD and it turns out it doesn't like it...
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