Hitachi DVD Player With Component Output (DVP325U)

by Hitachi

Product Details

Product Manual [1.30mb PDF]

• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 17.1 x 2.9 inches ; 5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 5 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000068D57
• Item model number: DVP325U
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #372,936 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

This DVD player lets you watch movies and listen to music in a whole new way. Just pop in a DVD of your favorite movie and prepare to be amazed at the picture clarity and detailed sound quality. It's also compatible with CDs and homemade CD-R/RW discs with MP3 music files! Extra features include a 2x-4x digital zoom, parental controls, and multi-brand TV remote. This unit is Dolby Digital and DTS compatible.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent interface & remote; Good picture, but not perfect, December 29, 2002

By 

M. Bonness (Washington, DC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hitachi DVD Player With Component Output (DVP325U) (Electronics)

For a price well under $100, the Hitachi DVP325U comes with a very sensible, easy-to-use remote and a decent picture. It's remote control and user-interface are simple and intuitive. For instance, to change the audio track (e.g., from English to English w/ commentary), you simply repeatedly press the "audio" button; other brands require you to first press an "audio" button and then press up and down or left and right to scroll through the various tracks (e.g., Samsung). The DVP325U also contains quite a few features, including zoom, simulated surround-sound, a programmable remote (to control your TV's volume, etc.), and a jog-dial and control buttons on the face of the unit. All of the features are well-executed; for instance, with the zoom function an onscreen display approximates which portion of the whole image is being enlarged. Finally, the DVP325U has both optical and coaxial audio outputs for those playing the sound through a nice stereo system. Despite an excellent interface and a lot of options that aren't usually available on cheaper DVD players, the DVP325U's picture is slightly less than perfect. In movies, smooth gradiants tend to show some banding of color and "stair-stepped" edges and boundaries. Generally this is only noticeable if you look very closely, but it makes an otherwise fantastic budget DVD player just short of perfect. Overall though, the user-interface and the features were so well designed, that I opted to keep this DVD player over a similarly-priced Samsung player which had a top-notch picture, but difficult controls. Lastly, the Hitachi DVP323U (threee-twenty-THREE), which you might also come across, is identical to the DVP325U, except that it lacks an optical output and 3 buttons ("subtitle," "audio," and "surround") on the face of the unit.