On test: Toshiba SD-390E
In a tit-for-tat as to who has the best budget DVD player, Toshiba reply to last year's Award winner Onkyo with the still cheaper SD-390E. A good set of connections including HDMI and support for a wide range of DVD and CD formats are what you'll find in this no-frills player.
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"Toshiba's budget DVD aims high"
Issue: 7/2009
Issue: 7/2009
"Toshiba SD-590E DVD Player Review"
Published on: 6/2009
Published on: 6/2009
On test: Toshiba SD-590E
Still refusing to release a Blu-ray player, the only hope for HD with Toshiba is in upscaling DVDs as in its SD-590E. Replacing last year's SD-580E, little looks to have changed in both specs and design in the intervening months.
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One DVD player was reviewed and rated on design, features, performance and value.
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"Panasonic DVD-LS84 Portable DVD Player Review"
Published on: 5/2009
Published on: 5/2009
On test: Panasonic DVD-LS84
Panasonic's DVD-LS84 8" 16:9 portable DVD player has the rather pleasing Free Style Viewing feature, with the screen flipping flat like a tablet PC or able to be adjusted for optimum viewing. Design-wise it wouldn't stand a chance next to LG and Toshiba, and connectivity is poor also. And video?
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One portable DVD player was reviewed and rated on design, features, performance and value.
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"Toshiba SD-P73S Portable DVD Player"
Published on: 4/2009
Published on: 4/2009
On test: Toshiba SD-P 73 SWE
A portable DVD player at reasonable price, Toshiba's SD-P73S has been completely redesigned for 2009. Slimline and with clearly laid out functional navigation, this gives the player an air of desirability you'd want in such a device.
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One portable DVD player was reviewed and rated on design, features, performance and value. An overall score out of 10 was given.
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"LG DVS450H 'floating' DVD player"
Published on: 12/2008
Published on: 12/2008
On test: LG Electronics LG DVS450H
The problem with most 'design' consumer electronics, is that usually quite a bit of substance has to be sacrificed to achieve enough style to justify the typically high price tags such systems usually command. However, the LG DVS450H, an impressively well designed DVD player at a surprisingly affordable price could be the best of both worlds.
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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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