Brand NamePhilips
Color Nameblack
Product Specifications
Technical Details
- 9-inch LCD Color Widescreen Portable DVD Player
- Included iPod Docking port for play and charge
- Doubles as digital photo frame
- Play CD, S(VCD), DVD, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, MP3, WMA ,JPEG digital camera photos, DivX & MPEG4 movies
- Up to 2.5 hours of playback with built in battery
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Product Description
Enjoy your videos from iPod, DVD and SD card. Enjoy DVDs and iPod videos on an 9-inch color widescreen with the compact Philips DVD player. Featuring a retractable adapter for iPod and built in SD/MMC card slots, you can view DivX movies or digital photos from multiple sources. Enjoy your videos and photos from multiple sources. 8.5-inch widescreen LCD display for high quality viewing. Play and charge your iPod. Play DVD, DVD+/-R and DVD+/-RW, (S)VCD, DivX and Mpeg4 movies. View movies and photos via the SD/MMC card reader. Doubles as a digital photo frame. Enjoy your digital photos from iPod, photo CD or memory card. Play slide-shows, single photos or thumbnails. Pan, Zoom or rotate photos. Designed for your on the go convenience. Up to 2.5 hours of playback with built in battery. Single remote control for the system and iPod. AC adapter, car adapter and AV cable included.
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
167 of 172 people found the following review helpful
I picked one of these up. I was psyched about the iPod dock. A great idea and from what I can currently find, also a unique feature. No one else has a portable DVD with an iPod dock. At the time of purchase I was torn between this Philips model and the Sony FX820. I'm a big Sony fan but the iPod dock really had me.
I got it home and popped my iPhone into the slide out dock. After fidgeting with it for a couple of minutes I was watching a movie from my iPhone on the screen. Cool. But.....then I noticed. Unless you are looking at this player's screen head on, you can't see a damned thing. If you change the viewing angle just a bit, the LCD screen becomes nearly black. Unviewable. Very disappointing. To me, this one fault makes this player useless. It's a shame. The iPod dock feature is cool.
The unit does feel VERY plastic-y. Also, this is an open faced design. You can't close it up. The screen is always exposed. The DVD loads on the back of the unit too. Kind of clumsy.
On a positive note. The unit didn't seem affected by any cellphone GSM noise.
A cool idea but flawed by seriously poor image quality. I would recommend the Sony FX820. You can hook up an iPod or just about any external video source using a cable. The Sony is far superior in material, build quality and picture quality. Sorry Philips!
I got it home and popped my iPhone into the slide out dock. After fidgeting with it for a couple of minutes I was watching a movie from my iPhone on the screen. Cool. But.....then I noticed. Unless you are looking at this player's screen head on, you can't see a damned thing. If you change the viewing angle just a bit, the LCD screen becomes nearly black. Unviewable. Very disappointing. To me, this one fault makes this player useless. It's a shame. The iPod dock feature is cool.
The unit does feel VERY plastic-y. Also, this is an open faced design. You can't close it up. The screen is always exposed. The DVD loads on the back of the unit too. Kind of clumsy.
On a positive note. The unit didn't seem affected by any cellphone GSM noise.
A cool idea but flawed by seriously poor image quality. I would recommend the Sony FX820. You can hook up an iPod or just about any external video source using a cable. The Sony is far superior in material, build quality and picture quality. Sorry Philips!
28 of 29 people found the following review helpful
I have an iPod classic with 80 GB. I carry my music and a lot of movies with me to watch during my commute on a busy subway system. I wanted a bigger screen to watch my iPod movies. This thing has adapters for virtually all formats. I am going to throw out the others but am keeping the iPod classic and touch/iPhone ones. The built in speakers are not very good quality. The headphones produce good iPod sound pass through.
I am a bit disappointed at the SD card format support. The SD card can only have MP3 sound files or JPEG pictures. This thing also supports DivX. I am not sure how this works. I am not interested either. MPG4 movie does not play. I was planning to use this card feature some times.
The DVD is OK type. The DVD door is extremely flimsy. Mine is already showing signs of wear after one week! The battery drains a little faster when running the DVD drive to watch movies. I am planning to take my movies mostly on the iPod.
Flimsy design, poor video image quality, and no battery gauge that is why 3 stars. I am otherwise very happy and would recommend this product.
I am a bit disappointed at the SD card format support. The SD card can only have MP3 sound files or JPEG pictures. This thing also supports DivX. I am not sure how this works. I am not interested either. MPG4 movie does not play. I was planning to use this card feature some times.
The DVD is OK type. The DVD door is extremely flimsy. Mine is already showing signs of wear after one week! The battery drains a little faster when running the DVD drive to watch movies. I am planning to take my movies mostly on the iPod.
Flimsy design, poor video image quality, and no battery gauge that is why 3 stars. I am otherwise very happy and would recommend this product.
32 of 34 people found the following review helpful
Most of the basics have been covered by other reviewers. The very basic stuff you know and expect has been given the proper attention.
However there are a few things about this unit that are just plain wrong or misleading.
-This unit CAN read movies from the memory card slot. DVD's encoded as AVI's can be read. With a smaller screen you'll want to scale down to less than half of the original DVD resolution (320 width on widescreen format), but the files will be recognized by the unit and can be played on it.
-The iPod dock will ONLY act as a conduit for movies that are compatible with the iPod on models that support movies. This means that unless you can load the video into iTunes and watch it on your iPod then it isn't going to work on the DVD player. The unit is simply taking the video stream from the iPod and putting it to the screen. It is NOT decoding the video at all.
-Movies encoded for the iPod and loaded onto a memory card can NOT be read by the unit. It will see the files but it will be read as an incompatible format.
-Movies in AVI format can be burned to a CD or DVD and read in the exact same manner as using a memory card.
-The entire "DivX functionality" is only with DivX versions 4 and 5 for encoding media. As the current DivX release is up to 7, well, you get the idea. The integration of the unit with this name brand is almost exclusively so that they could push customers to buy movies from DivX. Don't think that you need to use the DivX encoder to make video media for this. It's also quite possible that the unit might not read newer movies encoded with version 7 from the Divx site. Consider this a warning to stay away from the notion that DivX is necessary or really much of an option.
The bottom line is that this is quite a good dvd player. The screen has one of the best pictures I've seen and has enough expansion to not have many limitations to it. The iPod integration is nice, but unless you've dedicated a significant amounts of time and energy to moving media onto one, it shouldn't really be seen as a selling point.
However there are a few things about this unit that are just plain wrong or misleading.
-This unit CAN read movies from the memory card slot. DVD's encoded as AVI's can be read. With a smaller screen you'll want to scale down to less than half of the original DVD resolution (320 width on widescreen format), but the files will be recognized by the unit and can be played on it.
-The iPod dock will ONLY act as a conduit for movies that are compatible with the iPod on models that support movies. This means that unless you can load the video into iTunes and watch it on your iPod then it isn't going to work on the DVD player. The unit is simply taking the video stream from the iPod and putting it to the screen. It is NOT decoding the video at all.
-Movies encoded for the iPod and loaded onto a memory card can NOT be read by the unit. It will see the files but it will be read as an incompatible format.
-Movies in AVI format can be burned to a CD or DVD and read in the exact same manner as using a memory card.
-The entire "DivX functionality" is only with DivX versions 4 and 5 for encoding media. As the current DivX release is up to 7, well, you get the idea. The integration of the unit with this name brand is almost exclusively so that they could push customers to buy movies from DivX. Don't think that you need to use the DivX encoder to make video media for this. It's also quite possible that the unit might not read newer movies encoded with version 7 from the Divx site. Consider this a warning to stay away from the notion that DivX is necessary or really much of an option.
The bottom line is that this is quite a good dvd player. The screen has one of the best pictures I've seen and has enough expansion to not have many limitations to it. The iPod integration is nice, but unless you've dedicated a significant amounts of time and energy to moving media onto one, it shouldn't really be seen as a selling point.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
not worth it
Never worked right, will never buy another philips product again, tried calling philips customer support, no help either, said i had to buy another one since it's been over a year. Read more
Published 3 months ago by KB
I have had mine for 3 years, road warrior!
I bought this to accompany my iPod and it has served me well over 3 years and traveling to and from Costa Rica to Florida three times, Omaha, twice, Chicago and Tacoma, WA. Read more
Published 4 months ago by James L. Strong
I'm going to miss you.....dvd player!
I am going to miss my DVD player so much. I've had it since it came out! My little man just broke it. Cracked the screen. I've had it for years and it was very reliable. Read more
Published on May 22, 2010 by Valnieshia Lister
Very versatile!
We picked up this machine so that we could watch DVDs and movies downloaded from itunes while backpacking and we have been thrilled with it! Read more
Published on October 24, 2009 by Sarah Fife
Good Deal
Got this from the Amazon Wearhouse. I had no problems with the way the product works and the condition was better then described by Amazon. Read more
Published on October 20, 2009 by Kimmy
Non-portability for cars
This portable DVD player is not really usefull. It does not have any brackets or wires or any hooks which could be used to hang it on somewhere in the cards.
Published on October 8, 2009 by Binh T. Ta
Perfect for the car
We bought two of these for each of our children for car use only b/c we couldn't afford the $3000 DVD system for our new minivan. Read more
Published on October 3, 2009 by R. Finlayson
great for kids
love it, it's easy to use, perfect for my 6 year old son. it is actually our second the only problem with the first one was the milkshake all over it.
Published on September 17, 2009 by E. Smith
Good feature,but risky
I bought this product to replaced my old Philip portable DVD and usually being used by my 5,5 yrs old daughter. The features of the product are pretty good (ipod docking. Read more
Published on September 16, 2009 by Kurniaty Candakentjana
Will not work with Touch G2
Looked everywhere to try and find out if this would work for the touch G2. Lots of good reviews, but nothing specicfic about the G2. Read more
Published on September 14, 2009 by Tracy Bedenbaugh
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