No other portable DVD player produces as awesome a picture as does the Toshiba SD-P1000. Comparing any other portable DVD's image with that of the SD-P1000 is like comparing an inkjet photocopy of Van Gogh's "The Starry Night" to the real thing. Thanks to the SD-P1000's progressive scan technology, scan lines are eliminated -- and with them the eye strain-induced headache that results from staring for two hours at a screen that's just 60 cms from your face. While its picture is fabulous, the SD-P1000's portable ergonomics are less so. It's as if the designers said, "Let's give 'em a picture that'll knock their eyes out. Then, after we've knocked out their eyes, they won't be able to tell that the rest of the unit isn't so state-of-the-art."
Features:
- 16:9, 800 x 480 polysilicon TFT (Thin Film Transistor) active matrix display
- screen: 12.7cm diagonal, 14.73cm wide
- 27-MHz/10-bit video digital processing
- 31.5 kHz, progressive video with Cinema Mode
- 4x picture zoom
- 96-kHz/24-bit PCM audio compatible
- Dolby Digital and DTS compatible
- headphone jack
- Spatializer N-2-2 virtual surround sound
- dynamic range control
- built-in stereo speakers
- infrared remote control
- rechargeable lithium-ion battery (good for 140 minutes)
- 1 x 14.27cm x 14.94cm (HWD); with battery: 1 x 14.27cm x 20.02cm(HWD)
- without battery: 0.725kg; with battery: 1.134kg
The SD-P1000 can function as a portable DVD player, as a home progressive-scan DVD player, and as an external DVD-ROM drive. You'll need the optional ATAPI card if you want to hook it up to your PC or laptop.
With the exception of progressive-scan technology and the smaller screen size, the SD-P1000's features are similar to those of most other cutting-edge players, such the Panasonic DVD-LV75 (2000 etown.com portable DVD Product of the Year) and the Pioneer PDV-LC10 and PDV-LC20, the company's brand-new, upgraded model.
With a battery that lasts just a hair over two hours, the SD-P1000 also has considerably less juice than these other units. However, unlike most DVD players -- of any kind, home or portable -- the SD-P1000 can play back CD-Rs and CD-RWs.
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