CYBERHOME CH-LDV 700B 7-Inch Widescreen Portable DVD Player

by Cyberhome

Product Details

• Item Weight: 6 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B0001EZKUK
• Item model number: CH-LDV 700B
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (106 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #172,626 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Watch your movies, listen to your MP3 CDs, view your digital photos, or review your camcorder footage--all from one portable device. The CyberHome CH-LDV 700B puts a world of entertainment at your fingertips, and it comes with everything you need to use it in the car or in home. Its built-in 7-inch widescreen LCD displays your favorite movies in their native aspect ratios and gives you the option to fill the screen with discs formatted in the standard 4:3 TV aspect ratio. The 480 x 234-pixel screen offers vivid images with its 300:1 contrast ratio and high, 500 cd/m2 brightness.

Choose to listen from the unit's built-in stereo speakers or its headphone jack and supplied earbud headphones. The unit's 2.5-hour battery life gives you enough juice to watch most full-length movies in a single sitting. Full format compatibility includes everything from NTSC and PAL-formatted DVD to audio CD, VCD, SVCD, CD-R, CD-RW, JPEG CD/Kodak Picture CD, MP3 CD, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-R, and DVD-RW. Taking the player on the road? Conserve batteries by plugging it into your vehicle's cigarette lighter with a supplied DC power adapter.

Whether your living room is currently home to an HDTV or you're merely thinking of "someday," the CH-LDV 700B stands ready to deliver the full potential of your DVDs when used in a home-theater environment. Progressive scanning, referred to as 480p for the number of horizontal lines that compose the video image, creates a picture using twice the scan lines of a conventional DVD picture, giving you higher resolution and sharper images while eliminating nearly all motion artifacts.

The player also performs 3:2 pulldown reversal through its progressive-scan output. DVD mastering introduces a common distortion when adjusting 24 frames-per-second movies to 30 fps video; 3:2 pulldown digitally corrects this distortion, removing the redundant information to display a film-frame-accurate picture.

Other connection options include S-video and composite-video outputs (through the unit's single minijack video output, which is switchable as an input), and a switchable minijack analog audio input/output. A minijack optical digital-audio output lets you hook the player up with your audio/video receiver and multichannel speaker system to enjoy enveloping DTS or Dolby Digital 5.1-channel surround from your discs. Progressive-scan, S-video, and optical digital-audio interconnects are not included with the player.

What's in the Box
DVD player, earbud headphones, AC adapter, automobile DC power adapter, remote control, remote battery, stereo analog-audio output cable, composite-video output cable, user's manual.

Product Description

CyberHome CHLDV700B 7" TFT/LCD Progressive Scan Portable DVD Player with 16:9 Aspect Ratio

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Unreliable, No customer support, October 10, 2006

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Pinoy in NJ "arprince" (NJ USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: CYBERHOME CH-LDV 700B 7-Inch Widescreen Portable DVD Player (Electronics)

UPDATE 12/12/06
Cyberhome the company got out of the electronics business, particularly the cheap DVD player business a few months ago (and this is the reason why their site is not running anymore). You will not get any technical or warranty support for the unit if you purchase one. BUYER BEWARE!!!!

REVIEW 10/10/06
The player is relatively cheap compared to the branded ones. Works as advertised if you are lucky enough to have a "working unit".

I bought 2, one each for my two kids. One started to act weird after only a few days of use. The screen would "TURN BLACK" but you would still hear the sound playing. Initially, I thought it was my son who accidentally adjusted the brightness setting or any screen settings for that matter. I spent a good hour or two going through the other working unit and entering the same factory defaults on the other one to no avail. As a last resort, I removed the battery from the unit and placed it back in. That fixed the "BLACK SCREEN" problem temporarily because it would later come back when pressing one of the buttons of the unnit and at the same time tilting the screen (intermitent). So you have to remove the battery all over again to make it work.

If you are stuck with the unit, I would suggest not to move it around when watching a movie. The problem is actually documented on the manufacturer's web site (not accessible for the past 2-3 weeks that I checked) and the ONLY recommened fix is the same as I what I have described above.

Now my other working unit was fine. WAS in the the sense that the middle pin that plugs into the AC adaptor broke off for some reason. Wanted to get an RMA or something but it would be a miracle to try and get cutomer support from the manufacturer. I can't find any contact information at the web site at all. No phone numbers, no emails, nothing.

I'll try to get one from the retailer instead. So if I were you, look for another brand and don't get stuck with a lemon.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Ok for the price - battery (life) is a disaster, November 30, 2004

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Fred (Austria, Europe) - See all my reviews

This review is from: CYBERHOME CH-LDV 700B 7-Inch Widescreen Portable DVD Player (Electronics)

I bought this device this summer when I was on a vacation trip in the US, especailly for my 2 year old son so I can keep him entertained on the transatlantic flight back to Europe. As these things are cheaper in the US (compared to the Euro-currency) I thought it is no big risk if I buy one under 200$ as I can not return it here once I am back home. So my expectations were not high either as if I would buy a brand name device also at a higher price. One thing however I should have better paid attention to is the handling of the battery. Due to a major 'technical design flaw' you cannot shut off the device completely - you really have to remove the battery physically otherwise it remains in a standby mode and draws power from the battery up to a point where you cannot recharge it anymore. This happened to mine - so now I can run it only on 110 V (here 220 V) or with the car-adapter. But otherwise it works quite well, can also read my self-burned VideoCD (VCD and SVCD). Also a very good feature for someone from Europe: it can be switched also to PAL-TV (the norm for TV here, in the US it is NTSC) and in the menue you can also change the region-code so I can watch the European region-code-2 DVDs here too (to change the region code is an undocumented menue feature and you can find out how to do that that on various internet-forums). Anyway it fulfills its purposes - works fine in the car - and for 200 $ I didn't expect any high-quality features. I give it an average rating of 3 stars - if the battery worked properly it would be 4 stars.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars We Love It... Almost.., May 5, 2004

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Methusala "Methusala Czar" (NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: CYBERHOME CH-LDV 700B 7-Inch Widescreen Portable DVD Player (Electronics)

Update.. 4/4/2005 machine lasted 6 mos. Nearly impossible to contact company. Rude to me when I finally got a real person. This turned out to be absolute JUNK!

Everyone is right here, the battery is JUNK. J-U-N-K! Mine lasted just a few days and quit permanently. I'm currently looking for a replacement now. Even fully charged, the battery never lasted more than an hour to an hour and a half. It's true too, the battery does NOT hold a charge IF you leave it in the machine. You have to leave the battery OUT ALL THE TIME if you want the charge to hold. Even if you have it plugged into the wall or car, the battery WILL drain! Keep the battery out, and it stays charged.

As for the machine itself, the picture is beautiful! Very sharp, crystal clear. The carrying case flips over the seat in my van and is PERFECT for my 21 month old to watch his dvd's on long trips.

If cyberhome would do something about the battery issue, I'd give this machine 5 stars. We use it all the time just in the house as our regular dvd player. Kids love it because they can take it right in their beds or to a friends house. It's a very cool and handly little item!