Sony DVPFX980 9-inch Screen Portable DVD Player - Black (New for 2012)
Feature
- A portable DVD player that plays discs, MP3, CDs and photos with great sound and picture quality.
- High resolution 22.9cm / 9" LCD screen
- 4 sound modes to match movie type and viewing
- Playback of multi-format DVDs & USB-stored content
Product Overview
9" Portable DVD Player black has USB port High resolution 22.9cm / 9" LCD screen 1 year warranty
No remote, and the 7" screen is small, but a classy little DVD player with 4h battery life, By
Keith Joseph (West Berkshire, England) - See all my reviews
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Our old Wharfedale portable DVD player's remote failed and the player had no buttons for menu control on the case, so it had to be junked. This neat little Sony DVD player doesn't have a remote, so every control required is on the player. My teenage daughter far prefers this method of operation as the old player couldn't operate when the remote battery failed, and they were short lived expensive coin batteries. In the Sony DVPFX780's box are a 13A mains charger (90 cm lead), a 12v car cable (180cm lead), the instruction booklet, and an AV adaptor lead. The three phono (red/white audio + yellow video) adaptor cable is a bit of a pain as it is only 17cm long and terminates in phono sockets, so another cable is required to pass on the signal to the TV (typically a three phono/SCART lead).Still the chunky bottomed Sony has a nice inbuilt battery capable of 'up to 4 hours' replay and the DVD player works running off the mains or 12v car supply when the battery is recharging. The picture quality is very good, and the sound is impressive (with Standard/Dynamic/Vocals/Off options), although there is the odd speaker rattle when played very loud. There's also a USB socket for a USB2 flash drive to replay PC MP3, jPeg and video MPeg-4 or xvid AVI files. The player can handle commercial DVDs, DVD-/+R, CDs and VCD disks. The disc spinning mechanics are fairly quiet in operation. The DVD player is region 2 locked and with no remote option it's probably impossible to convert it to region free.
Sadly there's only one headphone out so a headphone splitter cable is required for dual viewing, which drops the volume a bit. There's a slide on switch, and standard buttons for Play/Pause, Skip, fast forward/back, Display, Menu, selection arrows, Enter/Select, Return and Options (LCD/Disc/USB/Setup). The units has LEDs for charging and power in, and there's a jack socket for the AV out to a TV. As well as displaying menu/video the LCD screen can also show the battery charge left and display on-screen information like 'paused'. The 7" screen is quite small at 15.5 x 8.7 cm as it's very 16:9 widescreen. Sony also make a similar 9" screen version, the DVP-FX980, that includes a decent 2xAA battery RMT-D195 remote as well as larger screen, but it is 3.6 x 1.5 cm bigger and costs almost twice as much as this 7" model.
Overall the Sony works well via the bubble click buttons on the top, and the TV out is very useful on hols when there's a TV in the caravan/cottage. When connected to a TV you do miss the lack of a remote. Mostly though the DVD player is used by our teenage kids in the car or in bed, and it's a hit - so 5* at the typical street price of £85. The Sony is 200 x 42.5 x 155 mm, weighs 1.4kg, seem well made (including the charger/12v lead), and looks very classy in black, particularly with the patterned Sony lid folded down (bit like a netbook).
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