Aspire AD-1000 Progressive Scan DVD Player

by Aspire

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 21 x 5 x 15 inches ; 6.8 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 10 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B000165170
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #240,609 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Aspire AD-1000 is an affordable, full-featured progressive-scan DVD player with onboard decoding for Dolby Digital sound output. In addition to DVD movies, the AD-1000 is also compatible with CD-R/RW discs, MP3 audio files, JPEG image files, and Kodak Picture CDs. You can also sing along to your favorite karaoke songs burned to CD+G discs. It features DTS digital audio and 4:3/16:9 aspect ratio display conversion, and has composite, S-Video video-out, and coaxial and optical digital audio-out connections.

Tech Talk
Progressive scan: A television with progressive scanning can generate a picture in a single pass, in a similar way to a computer screen. High-end DVD players also support this technology. Conventional interlaced scanning requires two passes to generate a picture: the first pass for the odd-numbered scan lines, the second for the even-numbered scan lines. Progressive scan has a refresh rate of 60 times per second, double the speed of conventional analog TVs, so the picture looks sharper, more solid, and more cinematic.

What's in the Box
Aspire AD-1000 DVD player and remote control (batteries not included).

Product Description

ASPIRE DIGITAL AD-1000, PROGRESSIVE SCAN DVD/CD WITH REMOTE

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1.0 out of 5 stars Cheap... but not much more., May 4, 2005

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Yony (Irvine, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Aspire AD-1000 Progressive Scan DVD Player (Electronics)

Pros:

- Cheap

- Reads recordable DVDs (not Divx)

- Reads both NTSC and PAL formats

Cons:

- Remote control has narrow range and sluggish responsiveness. Buttons are inconveniently organized and confusing.

- Loading slightly dirty DVDs is painfully slow

- Occasional glitches when playing DVDs (even new ones).

- Reading high resolution JPEGs is slow and slideshow mode is unpleasantly choppy (screen goes blank while the next image is read).

- Instruction manual is barely usable

- Waking the unit from standby must be done via the remote control.

Bottom line:

Although the cheap price tag might be attractive, I would personally recommend against purchasing this product. Using this DVD player, even for the basic user who doesn't require any extra features, is frustrating and does not provide the simple "just-works" comfort you'd expect from a consumer product.