Philips PET1010

Philips PET1010 Review

The Philips PET1010 portable DVD player comes with a widescreen 10.2-inch screen, enabling you to enjoy DVD movies in their original 16:9 aspect ratio format.Keep yourself or your kids entertained on long flights or road trips.

It includes dual headphone jacks so you can enjoy a movie with a friend, and also offers a variety of video output options for connecting to a TV. This compact unit weighs 2.2 pounds (excluding battery) and is powered by a rechargeable NiMH battery, AC adapter, and car power adapter (all included).

The Philips PET1010's LCD screen has a 800 x 480-pixel resolution, 18 ms (millisecond) response time, a brightness rating of 450 cd/m2 (candela per square meter), and 250:1 contrast ratio. (The higher the contrast ratio, the greater a screen's ability to display subtle color details and not get washed out by ambient room light.) It's compatible with a wide variety of disc and file formats, including DVD movie, CD audio, DVD+R/RW, VCD, SVCD, CD-R/RW, MP3, JPEG (Picture CD), MPEG4, and DivX 3.11/4.x/5.x.

Disc playback modes include A-B repeat, multi-angle selection, disc menu, fast backward/forward, repeat, shuffle play, slow backward/forward, and zoom. Other features include PAL/NTSC video output, parental controls, and aspect ratio conversion. The rechargeable battery has a battery life of up to 2.5 hours and a recharge time of 3 hours. It offers the following connections:

• Composite AV (RCA) Out: 1

• S-Video Out: 1

• Component Video Out (Y PB PR): 1

• Coaxial digital audio Out: 1

• Headphone: 2

Tech Talk

DivX is a video format based on MPEG4 video compression technology, enabling you to save large files like movies, trailers and music videos on media like CD-R/RW, memory cards and DVD-video. DivX CDs can be played back on selected DVD players, DVD recorders and home theater systems. MPEG4 is a compression standard allows you to record movies at up to seven to 10 times smaller than the MPEG2 standard without compromising on the picture and sound quality.

MPEG4 media can be saved on a CD-Rom, memory card or DVD disc and can be played back in selective DVD players, DVD recorder and Home theater systems YPbPr Component Video is a top-quality video connection ideal for connecting DVD players or recorders to high-end TV sets.

The Philips PET1010 uses three separate wires for the luminance and color difference signals to prevent interference. Because the video signal on the DVD disc is also stored in YPbPr format, no conversion steps are needed to generate the output signal

What's in the Box?

Philips PET1010 Portable DVD player, battery, AC adapter, car power adapter, video cable, audio cable (RCA to mini), remote control (with batteries), printed operating instructions

So what features does the Philips PET1010 Have?

• Disc capacity: 1

• Portable: Yes

• Screen size: 10.2 inches

• Progressive scan: Yes

• Recording capability: No

• Playback formats: DVD movie, CD audio, DVD+R/RW, VCD, SVCD, CD-R/RW, MP3, JPEG (Picture CD), MPEG4, DivX

• Aspect ratio control: Yes

• Dialog enhancer: No

• Integrated amplifier/receiver: No

• Front-panel operation: Yes

• Multi-angle viewing: Yes

• Chapter preview: Information unavailable

• Custom bookmarks: No

• Karaoke: No

• Multilingual support: Yes

• Parental controls: Yes

• Picture zoom: Yes

• Play exchange: No

• Random play: Yes

• Repeat play: Yes

• Resume play: Yes

• Slow motion: Yes

• Frame advance: Yes

• Still/freeze frame: Yes

• Text display: Yes

• Video inputs: None

• Video outputs: Composite, S-Video, component

• Audio outputs: Line-out audio (mini to RCA), digital coaxial

• Surround-sound output or Virtual surround sound: Information unavailable

• Headphone jack: 2

• Item width: 10.24 inches

• Item height: 1.32 inches

• Item depth: 7.2 inches

• Item weight: 2.2 pounds

• Warranty: 1 year

Conclusion

The Philips PET1010 is a great portable DVD recorder. I actually own one. Great sound, Great Picture and Great features. What more can I say.

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