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"Sony DVP-FX730 7-inch portable DVD player review"

1 DVD Player (approx. £130)

Published on 2/2010

On test: Sony DVP-FX730

"While the iPhone, iPod touch and now iPad offer a way to watch films and TV on the go, a dedicated portable DVD player requires no iTunes fees or potentially lengthy film format conversion. The Sony DVP-FX730 7-inch portable DVD player has plenty of compatibility and plays DVDs, DivX formatted AVI film files, MP3s and JPEGs from both disc and USB stick. The latter is unusual for a portable DVD player and allows for several files to be played, depending on the size of the USB stick, including those you have recorded yourself." Review details: Single Test → Test results

"Tosh makes much ado about DVD"

1 DVD Player (approx. £70)

Issue 1/2010

On test: Toshiba XDE600

"Toshiba would like us to get rather excited about its upscaling DVD players. Why? To be honest, we're not sure. ..." Review details: Single Test → Test results

"DVD sounds like Blu-ray alternative"

1 DVD Player

Issue 12/2009

On test: Cambridge Audio Sonata DV30

"Blu-ray may not have taken the world by storm, but now there's a plethora of top-notch products at this price. So where does a £200 DVD player fit in? ..." Review details: Single Test → Test results

"Toshiba XDE600 Upscaling DVD Player Review"

1 DVD Player (approx. £70)

Published on 10/2009

On test: Toshiba XDE600

"A hands-on inspection reveals that the XDE600 is a different animal to its predecessor. It's lighter, slimmer and a bit more glamorous thanks to its swanky gloss-black finish and a sloping grey-tinged bottom edge, which is proudly emblazoned with the XDE logo. Tap the light-as-a-feather bodywork and the hollow sound doesn't instil confidence, but it's firmly bolted together and is certainly no flimsier than any other budget player on the market." Review details: Single Test. One upscaling DVD player was reviewed and rated on design, features, performance and value. → Test results

"Toshiba XDE-600 DVD player"

1 DVD Player (approx. £70)

Published on 10/2009

On test: Toshiba XDE600

"Last year’s XDE-500, the first DVD player equipped with Toshiba’s eXtended Detail Enhancement (XDE) technology, certainly took upscaled picture quality to new heights, but a replacement for high-def it was not. Since then Toshiba has announced plans to launch a Blu-ray player, which means that this follow-up deck can be judged on its own merits and not as a Blu-ray substitute. The other good thing is that the price of the XDE-600 has been dropped to a more affordable level, costing almost half as much as its predecessor." Review details: Single Test → Test results

DVD Players

DVDs have replaced the traditional VHS to such an extent that some shops in England have taken the bulkier, easily broken blank video tape off the shelves and now exclusively stock DVDs and CDs. The trend to opt for a DVD player has perhaps reached its zenith but there are now more and more affordable home cinemas systems and DVD recorders on the market that demand for DVD based systems will continue to be high for as long as DVDs continue to be made. DVD technology offers a very good picture and sound quality using the DVD's native MPEG2 compression format and modern DVD players are also capable of decoding the newer compression formats like DivX, XVID and even WMV9, which offers high density 1080 quality from file sizes no larger than standard DVD movies. DVD players are often ''slim'' and so take up less space and are less obtrusive in modern homes. When buying a DVD player you should take care it has all the necessary connections, RF is rare and almost non existent, but there are different formats such as composite, SCART, component video and S-VHS so be sure to check which are supported by your television. Component video offers the highest quality but SCART is most common and should be found on all television sets made in the last ten to fifteen years. What can also be considered the most important thing when looking for a DVD player is whether the remote control fits easily in the hand, but thankfully these are often kept just as sleek as the players themselves.

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