Philips DCP850/37 8.5-Inch Portable DVD Player with iPod docking
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Philips DCP850 8.5" Portable DVD Player with iPod docking
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Technical Details
- 8.5" LCD Swivel 16:9 screen- iPod docking: play movies and recharge your iPod device
- Compatible with DVD+R/-R, CD-R/-RW, MP3, DivX
- SD card slot for movies and digital photos
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By K. Wood (Tallahassee, Florida United States)
I owned one. It worked fine for me. I could use it on the road (I travel a LOT). The docking feature for my iPod was a selleing feature for me.
I never had any problems with it. Output was fine, worked with my 80 GB iPod. I used it at home as my dvd player.
Only drawback was while using it as my dvd player hooked to my TV, the video and sound still came out the device, so I had two sets of sound and video (TV and device.)
Loaned it to someone and it got stolen from them, So I am looking to get another. I never had problems. Sorry to hear otehrs did.
By NanaMeggie (Eureka, CA USA)
I've had two of these, now... gave the first to my daughter when she went of to college and I now have the second one which I use all the time.
Good points:
1- Obviously, I love being able to dock my iPod with this. One of the advantages with this is the increase in your battery power from a bit over 2 hours (for film) to just about 5 hours as the iPod does use its battery power as well in conjunction with the player's... handy :)
*** A note on the vidoe transfer from iPod to DVD player*** PAY ATTENTION! You must set your iPod VIDEO settings properly before using it in the DVD player so you can see you videos and films properly! It is NOT the fault of the DVD player.
2- Being able to use SD cards for practically any basic music/document/video/photo format there is... music, photos, film, documents.... almost anything which can be stored on an SD card may be viewed provided (naturally) that it is in the appropriate formatting to begin with. In other words, don't expect a Painter or Illustrator doc to be viewable unless it's been coverted to jPeg for the most part.... and text docs should be plaintext only. This is actually a more versatile player than I had originally believed when I really began messing about with it!
3- I LOVE the compactness of the unit and the swivel screen! Turning the screen about makes this more like reading a book, which I like tremendously... terrific for all those boring hours whiling away in the doctor's office and I've even whipped it out while standing in very lengthy check-out lines.
4- I can close the unit altogether and still keep listening to audiobooks on CD... also quite handy, whether they be on CD or stored in my iPod (and I admit to having a huge pile of books stashed on my 'funpod'! Nor did I ever think I'd make use of the second headphone input jack, but lying on the beach (not far from my home) with a friend makes this very handy as well... nice to have the ability to share the entertainment with a friend, especially where external sounds (ocean surf!) necessitates headsets. The screen holds up surprisingly well in the sunlight as well, though of course, no screen is perfect in such conditions.
5- As the unit has AV input/output jacks, this lets me record back and forth as well, not a lot of comparable units have this feature. I don't use it often, but when I need to, generally in sharing music or photos, it's a very handy feature to have.
6- The remote unit is very nice and easy to use and I like the way it is stored in the player as it is not likely to fall out or get easily dislodged when properly inserted into the storage section. The iPod is also securely held when loaded in as there are two separate points of attachment, the power plug and the side "flip" button thingy. It did take me a few tried to get the order right, pull out the plug FIRST, then flip the iPod out of the storage section! Unfortunately, when you do have your iPod loaded, there's no place to store the remote unit within the player itself, so have a pocket handy or, better yet, a storage case for going about with it.
Things I'd change:
1- For some idiotic reason, there's no separate volume control on the remote.. Doesn't make much sense since every other control IS available on it. Perhaps this is something Philips will address in the future. As is, this is the one real complaint, though very minor, is that the only volume control is on the unit itself. On the other hand, just how far away am I ever from the darn thing that I can't reach out and adjust a knob? We are truly getting too lazy!
2- Here's the biggie... the battery... NOT replaceable even though it IS rechargable. Once your battery goes, that's it. I do not know if it can be replaced at the factory or not. BUT... this does NOT mean that the player is toast, you simply just have to use the adapter and use it while it's plugged in. So if this has happened to you, consider hanging on to it to use perhaps in bed while your companion snoozes on... you get to still bliss out with your fave film!
AS far as the non-replacable battery, I really HATE this kind of waste as when I really like something, I'll take good care of it and keep it until it literally falls to bits. The flip side is at least it will continue working just fine plugged in, but of course, that takes the fun of wireless away, doesn't it?
So.... there's my two cents worth... overall, a great little player. versatile, flip screen, 2-5 hours play time depending on iPod usage, compact, plays when closed (for audio CDs, etc) does music, video, DVD, CD, SD, has audio input/outputs, decent and bright screen (16:9 btw!) and overall, offers more than the average. Main downside, non-replaceable battery. That's it. And I'd definitely get the same model player to replace this if something happens to it!
By NSMaster (Pac NW & Iraq)
I knew someone who had a fully-functioning version of this product and it seemed great and innovative, something that everyone should have... Then I bought my own.
It's an A+ concept and design, but D for delivery.
The i-Pod docking works fine for me, but the battery does not charge, so the DVD player is not portable, which defeats the purpose of a PORTABLE DVD player.
I'll probably give mine away or sell it for a fraction of what it's worth if and when I can.
Such a shame, because I really liked the overall versatility of the product, it just doesn't deliver as it should.
By M. McCrave (Lenexa, KS)
Received this player for a vacation. Had all my movies loaded to my iPod Classic, but it did not work with the 160Gb Classic. Looking closer at the notes buried in the manual, I saw it only will play the 30, 60 and 80Gb. It also will not play SMHC cards. It looks good, but has limited options for playback. Other than that, it worked fine.
By Stephen Flores (Seffner, FL USA)
What I needed was a DVD player that played a lot more than DVDs: this is primarily for the car to keep my 1 (now 2) year old son happy on trips. DVDs were getting scratched and would frequently skip/stop with bumps. My wife's 80GB iPod only has about 40GB of music, so we have ripped all of my son's favorite TV shows and movies to the iPod AND the best ones are on 2GB SD memory chips. So no hauling piles of DVDs around. My son can be kept very happy on long trips. The only effort I have to make is ripping new movies and shows to mpeg files.
The screen resolution is not very good, but looks fine for our purposes. But I knocked off a star for that. We almost always have it plugged into the cigarette lighter in the car, so battery life has not been much of an issue for us.
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