Sony DVP-FX750 7-Inch Portable DVD Player, Black

by Sony

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 6.1 x 1.7 inches ; 1.8 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B003CHMCXG
• Item model number: DVPFX750
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (84 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #172 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
  • #3 in Electronics > Portable Audio & Video > Portable DVD Players
  • #7 in Electronics > Televisions & Video > DVD Players & Recorders

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Watch movies, view photos, and listen to music anytime, anyplace with the DVP-FX750 portable DVD player in black. Ideal for road trips, plane rides, or the daily commute, this stylish player features a vibrant 7-inch screen and up to 3 hours of battery life. And when you want more than movies, you can view at personal photo albums or play CDs and MP3s. Share entertainment with a friend via two built-in headphone jacks. An included car adapter ensures you'll be ready to go no matter how long the road trip while the A/V adapter makes it easy to connect to a TV.

The Sony DVP-FX750 portable DVD player in black.

 

Key Features

7-inch Widescreen Monitor: Enjoy entertainment on the go with the Sony DVP-FX750 portable DVD player, featuring a compact seven-inch (measured diagonally) screen.

Multiple Format Disc Playback: View movies and photos and listen to music on your portable DVD player with multiple format playback.

Disc Resume: With disc resume, you can boot up a DVD where you left off.

Unique Textured Design: The DVP-FX750's unique textured design is both stylish and functional.

Car Adapter Included: Included car adapter helps make sure your DVD player is always ready to go no matter how long the road trip.

12-bit/108MHz Video DAC: Enjoy a pristine picture every time you play a DVD with 12-bit/108MHz Video DAC (Digital to Analog Conversion). The DAC technology minimizes digital artifacts and fine picture gradation for an image that's closer to the original source.

3-hour Rechargeable Battery: With up to three hours of battery life, the DVP-FX750 lets you watch multiple movies before having to recharge.

2 Built-In Headphone Jacks: Share your entertainment with friends and family with two built-in headphone jacks.

A/V Input and Output: Plug the DVP-FX750 into your TV using the A/V output and it instantly becomes a standard DVD player.

Included accessories.

Specifications

• Screen: 7 inches (480 x 234 pixels)
• Outputs: 2 headphone jacks (3.5mm), 1 A/V (audio/video)
• DVD disc compatibility: DVD movie, DVD±R, DVD±R DL, DVD±RW
• CD disc compatibility: CD music, CD-R/RW
• MP3 playback: Yes
• JPEG playback: Yes
• Dimensions: 7.9 x 6.1 x 1.7 inches
• Weight: 1.9 pounds (30 ounces)
• Warranty: 1 year parts, 90 days labor

What's in the Box

DVP-FX750 (black) portable DVD player, rechargeable battery pack (built-in), remote control, AC adapter, car battery charger (DC power), A/V cable, operating instructions

Product Description

Enjoy movies, music and photos on the go with the Sony DVP-FX750 Portable DVD Player. This compact, stylish player includes great features like a seven-inch (diag.) widescreen display, three hours of battery life for extended viewing, and two headphone jacks so you can share the entertainment, all at an incredible value.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

57 of 57 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nice, November 2, 2010

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Barb "ILoveCakeandIceCream" (Portsmouth, Va United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sony DVP-FX750 7-Inch Portable DVD Player, Black (Electronics)

This is a great portable dvd player. I bought this for my boyfriend so he didn't have to watch his dvds on his laptop in bed. The volume is loud! I can hear it in the other room, and I have had to ask him to turn it down a couple of times. It's lightweight and easy to carry. The picture quality is great as well. Overall, I am very impressed with this, and coming from Sony, I knew it would be a dependable brand. I ended up buying one for myself (except I got the white one).

48 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This Sony is Worth a Little Extra, December 19, 2010

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MWebb (Berkeley, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sony DVP-FX750 7-Inch Portable DVD Player, Black (Electronics)

I purchased my unit on sale at Target. I have seen these units on sale or online for about 40 percent off list price and Amazon usually has a similar discount but Amazon's prices "float" all the time so be sure to comparison shop and shop weekly or even daily on Amazon if you are price sensitive. While I purchased my sample of this review unit from a "bricks and mortar" retailer, in the past I have purchased other items from J&R, the seller currently listed for this unit, through the Amazon Marketplace program and they are a very reliable Amazon Marketplace seller. You can also log directly onto the J&R Music website, comparison shop, and use your Amazon account to place your order directly through J&R which is very convenient.

I am very happy with this 7" Sony. It has the "standard" resolution (which is to say, 1/2 DVD level) of most portable DVD players. Subjectively speaking, the image quality is about the same as pre-digital TV broadcasts which is more than enough for entertaining kids, the most common use of these players. The sound quality through the built-in speakers is also pretty decent, enough for kids watching DVD's at home in their room, and there are dual headphone outputs for better quality listening (or listening in a car without annoying parents).

If you want higher resolution, this is the only unit I know that offers true DVD resolution (800 x 480 pixels):

Sony DVP-FX950 9-Inch Portable DVD Player

It costs a lot more due to that higher resolution and the bigger screen, and it is not usually discounted as much, proportionately, as this smaller unit.

(I searched and found two different 9"/high rez models, the FX950 and the FX930 and I am not sure of the differences; I think I have the FX930; currently these are only offered by Amazon Marketplace sellers, but Amazon usually stocks them.)

This 7" unit has excellent "on machine" controls which should suffice if the remote is lost; the remote makes access to some buried adjustments (as noted by another reviewer) easier. The remote is as large as a TV remote, much larger than the small ones that come with most regular DVD players (that hook up to TV's) these days, and in fact much larger than the remote that comes with the 9" high rez edition.

Battery life is sufficient unless you are taking a long flight (not many portable DVD players go on flights anymore, what with netbooks and iPads and Touches). The player comes with both a home charger and car charger. I don't think the unit will charge and play at the same time, but it WILL play on external power, either on the home charger or the car charger, which is probably the most important issue.

Build quality is EXCELLENT. My wife picked up an RCA 7" portable player for only 10 dollars less than this one at Target around Thanksgiving and the build quality on the RCA is very disappointing in comparison, as are the controls.

Colors and brightness are EXCELLENT. More importantly, this Sony has good view angles. The RCA my wife bought has a peculiar view angle - you have to tilt the screen slightly toward you to get optimal image contrast and brightness. The Sony has MUCH better viewing angles.

All in all this is one of those instances where paying a little more (perhaps) and buying a brand name (Sony) is well worth it. I highly recommend this Sony portable player.

Also, if you don't really need the higher resolution, there is no point in getting the 9" edition, since the difference in screen size doesn't add up to much at typical viewing distances. The 9" is much larger and heavier if you have to lug it around.

Finally, I really like the "resume" feature which lets you re-start DVD play where you left off after powering down, assuming you haven't changed discs in the meantime. It means not having to search for the spot where you left off.

A note on how I use mine: I have bunches and bunches of instructional DVD's I like to watch. I have been searching for an easy way to watch them, since I usually only watch 5 or 10 minutes at a time (it's the most I can absorb before brain freeze). Resetting the main home TV center from whatever device it has been running last (Roku? Apple TV? DVD?), and turning on the TV, player, amplifier, and pulling the last DVD left in the player (and finding where it goes) and putting my current one in, are steps that add up to more trouble than they are worth. Using this DVD player means I can turn it on with one switch and watch anywhere in the house...or in the car...or in a mall while the family is shopping. Turn it off, and it resumes on last chapter I watched. Very handy for golf players, tennis players, martial arts, or hauling to the patio or spare room for an aerobics or yoga session etc. These things aren't only for kids and Barney.

144 of 156 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Bad for Kids, November 21, 2010

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Jo Smith "Fred" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sony DVP-FX750 7-Inch Portable DVD Player, Black (Electronics)

3 stars for quality of playback, remembering place on DVD when powered down elegantly.

However if you are using this for your kids the DVP-FX750 has several very serious design flaws, especially if you are using this in a vehicle:

1. The player will charge only if powered off (it will not play a DVD and charge at the same time).
The unit is frequently without power when out of the vehicle, unless we bring it inside to charge overnight. (our 12v accessory ports are not powered when the vehicle is off).

2. The (huge) remote has no on/off switch.
The only way to turn the unit on/off is using a switch on the side of the unit (can be hard to get to when mounted in a vehicle)

3. The hold button is directly adjacent to the POWER button. We frequently end up turning the player off when only trying to turn off/on the hold.

4. The hold button does not disable the eject button.
The hold button is useless for preventing kids from interrupting playing.

5. There is no easy way to adjust brightness
Our other players have a button to adjust brightness, for this player it's buried in the menu tree.

6. There is no easy way to adjust screen width
Our other players have a button to stretch 4:3 content, this player buries it in a menu tree.

7. The unit is very finicky about how the disks are loaded. Until we got used to this, we would often get the "could not load dvd" message because one side of the DVD was not properly pressed in to the spindle.

8. Battery life is short compared to our other player.

Most of the above problems would not be a big deal for an adult, however if you are getting this for your kids there are much better options available.