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Summary: Great Player
Review: My boyfriend gave me this for my birthday and by far it is one of the best presents ever! The picture, sound and overall quality of this player is incredible. You forget that you are only watching a 7 inch screen! I highly recommend this product!
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Summary: A very impressive piece of technology
Review: The portable DVD player is a marvel of technology, and the Sharp Moviegoer is an excellent example of the genre. Although it is very much a luxury, it's something that any movie-lover or fan of gadgets would love. At the moment there seem to be three main options for portable DVD players, and I considered them all before deciding on the Sharp. They are: the Panasonic Palm Theater, the Pioneer LC-10 and the Sharp DV-L70U Moviegoer. The Panasonic is the most popular, easiest to find and also the cheapest (especially given recent price reductions). It is also a nice size, but the trade-off is that you only get a 5" screen, which is a bit on the small size. I was able to try it out at a local electronics store, but wasn't that impressed with its performance when using non-anamorphic discs (those not enhanced for widescreen TVs). I found that "zooming" the image to fill the screen resulted in too much pixelation, and stretching it also resulted in some noticeable distortion. Given the large number of non-anamorphic discs out there, I found that unacceptable. The Pioneer has a 7" screen and is at a similar price, but from what I have heard, it is somewhat large and heavy with the battery. Thus, I decided on the Sharp. I am quite pleased with my decision, with a few minor exceptions. First of all, I am very happy that I decided to go for the bigger screen. Although the 2" difference between the 5" screen of the Panasonic and the 7" screen on the Sharp may not sound like much, it really does make a difference. The screen seems almost twice as big to me. It is a very good quality screen (and Sharp is famous for their LCDs). The colors are vibrant and bright and I found no "dead" pixels or other imperfections, although it did seem slightly brighter towards the bottom. There are several controls that you can use to adjust the color, brightness and tint of the LCD as well. I was also pleasantly surprised at how well the unit handles non-anamorphic movies. I didn't find a big difference in picture quality with these discs. There are several options for viewing non-widescreen enhanced movies. You can display them with no modification at all (showing black bars to either side of the screen), you can stretch the image with the "stretch" and "smart stretch" options (which distort the image a little by stretching it horizontally to fill the screen, but don't really result in a loss of picture quality) or you can "zoom" them, which means that you digitally resize the picture to fit the screen. This last option resulted in the same sort of pixelation I noticed on the Panasonic, although it was slightly less noticeable. One last option that may not be immediately obvious is using the image zoom option. This allows you to zoom in on one portion of the screen (and there are three different levels of magnification). This is fun to play with, since you can see small details with surprisingly little pixelation. But I also found that using the lowest level of magnification zoomed the image on 1.85:1 letterboxed discs just enough to fill the screen. This resulted in almost no pixelation (as opposed to the "zoom" viewing option I mentioned above) and you only lose a small portion of the image on the sides. In any case, there are plenty of options to play with -- which one you choose is largely a matter of personal preference. The unit itself is good looking, with a high-tech brushed aluminum look. It is impressively thin and light without the battery. With the battery it does become a bit more bulky (about the same size as three DVD cases stacked), but is still relatively light. My only complaint about the esthetics of the player is that the battery connects to the unit with an external cord. You can see this in the images that are available on this site, but I didn't really notice it until the player was here in front of me. I found this to be a somewhat inelegant solution, and it stands out a bit when compared with the otherwise excellent design of the player. One other small complaint is that despite the large number of buttons on the unit, there are several features that are only accessible via the remote (the most important being forward/reverse search, slow motion and zoom). The remote itself is also fairly large, which does limit its portability a bit. Battery life actually seems slightly surpass Sharp's claims of 3 hours -- you should easily be able to finish any movie with plenty of time to spare. The recharge time for the battery is a bit long (5 hours) and the battery also doesn't charge when you are using the player. A few random features that I liked: optical digital output so I can record mindiscs digitally; the ability to use the LCD to monitor an outside source like a TV signal, a camcorder or video game; adjustable backlight that you can also turn off when connected to a separate TV; the unit will also output DTS and Dolby Digital signals to your audio equipment. Despite a few minor flaws, I think the Sharp is the best overall player on the market, and anyone looking for a portable player should give it a close look.
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Summary: my favorite toy
Review: There are not enough words for me to describe how much i love this device. But like everything in the world there are pros and cons of having anything no matter how much you pay for it. cons: This baby will heat up pretty bad with the portable battery. I recommend watching only one movie at a time with it (about 2 hours). pros: I can take all the fun of having a dvd player at home anywhere. it comes with audio/video outputs built into the player, a headphone outlet, and one of my favorites is the ability to adjust those hideous 2.35:1 widescreen settings. The greatest thing I love about the dvd palyer is that it is so small, and yet the sound is rich and clear as well as the picture. This dvd player is a must buy for any electronics freak. Or if you are a big kid like me and love grown-up toys. five star
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Summary: great for portable
Review: this is a great portable dvd player. the only problem is the 3.5 hour battery. (only if going cross country). Would like to see more assor. for product. purchase a headphone adapter for more headphones and you have a great entertainment for kids and adults w/o bothering others that can't watch.
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Summary: Not exactly as advertised
Review: This is an OK player. The screen is about average...I hear that the Toshiba progressive scan is stupendous. I found it had trouble with certain discs (VCD for example) and branching DVDs. The shipping weight is not 3.2 but closer to 5.5 pounds. And the unit with battery is moderate, not light (ca. 3.2 pounds). The battery did not last for me 3 hours, but around 2.5 or so.
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Summary: First Portable DVD
Review: This unit is everything that was advertised.
I am very pleased with how it measures up to it's hype.
It has a great picture.
It's easy to use and set up with my home T.V.
I love the remote. (of course I love all my remotes)
And it's the best thing that's happened to cross country driving since cruise control.
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Summary: Came Defective
Review: Well I knew I was in trouble when I turned it on. The display turned out to be defective, two pixels in the screen were bright green and blue respectively. On a 7 inch screen, very distracting. Packed it back up and sent it back. I must commend Amazon.Com for the courteous and helpful staff in this regard, they have a customer for life. They are sending me a new one and I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Other than the defective liquid crystal display was very impressed with the machine, that is why I'm giving them another chance. If that one's defective I'm going with the Pioneer.
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Summary: Good product, lousy support
Review: While the Sharp DVD player itself is fairly good, it has its limitations. They are mainly in the lack of functions available on the machine itself and only accessible through the remote control. Additionally, trying to get customer support for this product from Sharp is a futile exercise. If you want an extra battery because yours is broken or you have a 10 hour airline flight, you might as well forget it. The customer service numbers and staff are of no help in obtaining one. I would think hard about the lack of support before I bought one of these products, though it is possible they will increase their customer support in the future.
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Summary: 16:9 Math Issues
Review: Wow ... lots of trigonometrically challenged posts here! actual screen dimensions for 16:9 aspect ratio screens are: 5" diag --> 4.36" x 2.45" = 10.68 sq.in. 7" diag --> 6.10" x 3.43" = 20.93 sq.in. So ... the 7" screen has approx 2x the viewing area of the 5".
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Summary: Why buy DVD?
Review: Yes, DVD. You may think it is a revolution but what is the point of having dvd if you havent got the right equipment. Well this says it all. The portable player not only acts as a video player but also a dvd-rom drive as well. with the optical data lead which can be purchased drastically converts the player into a fully working dvd-rom drive. what else this is portable so you can play dvd anywhere you want. Not only that but eith the optical lead you can download music onto a mini-disc so this is all portable! This is the most sexiest thing i have ever brought and surely it needs the love it wants.
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