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Sungale DVD 8500 Progressive-Scan DVD with Karaoke (Silver)

Sungale DVD 8500 Progressive-Scan DVD with Karaoke (Silver)

List Price: $99.99
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Features:
  • Stylish, affordable DVD player with high-end video output and MP3/JPEG CD compatibility
  • Slim design--just 1.89 inches tall; karaoke abilities with 2 microphone inputs and independent level controls
  • Dolby Digital 5.1 and Dolby Pro Logic decoding and passthrough with multichannel analog outs and coaxial/optical digital-audio outputs
  • Component-, composite-, and S-video outputs accommodate a range of TVs; progressive-scan output offers seamless pictures on HD-ready sets
  • NTSC and PAL video output, auto-switching 110V to 240V, 50/60 Hz power supply


Description:

Sungale's affordable model DVD 8500 DVD player offers everything you need to source a spiffy home theater--and karaoke functionality, too. Standing a mere 1.8 inches tall, the DVD 8500 boasts a sleek, silver chassis with a mirror-black front panel and a VFD (vacuum-fluorescent display) for vivid disc-information readouts. The player also offers high-end component-video outputs (switchable between progressive and interlaced modes), built-in MP3 decoding, and support for JPEG image CDs so you can watch a digital-photo slideshow right on your living-room television.

Whether your living room is currently home to an HDTV or you're merely thinking of "someday," the DVD 8500 is ready to deliver the full potential of your DVDs. Progressive scanning, referred to as 480p for the number of horizontal lines that compose the video image, creates a picture using twice the scan lines of a conventional DVD picture, giving you higher resolution and sharper images while eliminating nearly all motion artifacts.

The player's component-video outputs offer a choice of progressive and interlaced signals (YPbPr and YCbCr); interlaced component-video signals still minimize line-scan artifacts on compatible televisions, while composite- and S-video outputs bring compatibility with nearly any television.

When it's time to party, invite your friends over, pop in a karaoke CD or DVD, plug in a microphone or two, and you're ready for full-blown sing-along action, duets and all, with independent level controls for each mic input.

Both Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1-channel surround-sound signals can be routed through the player's digital-audio outputs (one each optical and coaxial) for direct connection to a full-featured audio/video receiver. Alternately, built-in Dolby Digital decoding lets you feed multichannel analog outputs to receivers with compatible multichannel inputs (many older models do not permit digital-audio connections).

A 192 kHz, 24-bit digital-to-analog converter ensures optimum decoding of all disc formats, including HDCD (High-Definition Compatible Digital), a 20-bit encoding method used on many commercial CDs to deliver better sound than is possible through standard CDs.

Playback options include overseas use (the player offers both NTSC and PAL video outputs and auto-switching 110 to 240V, 50 or 60 Hz power input), picture zoom with zoom panning, time search during playback, and a screen saver to prevent image burn-in if you keep a disc in pause mode for an extended period.

What's in the Box
DVD player, remote control, remote batteries, user's manual, stereo analog audio interconnect/composite-video cable.

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