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Sony DVPFX810 8-Inch Portable DVD Player, Black
Product Description Sony's DVP-FX810 8 Widescreen LCD boasts a rugged design with sophisticated features! The swivel and flip screen offers multiple viewing angle options whether you are in a car, train or plane, or at the beach. Watch a regular full-length movie with its up to 5 1/2 hour battery capacity (battery life may vary depending on usage conditions) or plug in the supplied car adapter for extended viewing. Includes remote control, batteries for remote, owners manual, AV cable, rechargeable battery pack, AC cdaptor, car battery charger, AV cable. Product Description For entertainment on the go, Sony's DVP-FX810 portable DVD player lets you enjoy movies, music and more anywhere! Offering up to three hours of battery life on a single charge, its sophisticated features and durable design make it the perfect travel companion. Equipped with an 8" widescreen LCD monitor, the DVP-FX810 plays back your DVD favorites with amazing detail and vibrant color. Perfect for road trips, on the plane, train, or at the beach, the portable DVD player's swiveling LCD moves a full 360 degrees, letting you enjoy the view from any angle.Use the convenient buttons on the LCD frame to control the play settings, replay or skip ahead to your favorite scene. The easy-to-use dual sensor remote offers even more viewing options, letting you control player functions from a distance. Perfect for anyone in the family, this multi-function DVD player also brings your favorite digital pictures and selections from your MP3 play lists to life on CD and DVD media. Discover a new way to enjoy your favorite media anywhere with the compact and versatile DVP-FX810 DVD player from Sony. Reader Reviews Review for the Sony DVP-FX810. Primary use: Aboard our boat and used with second 13" flat screen. Well, like most people we've all been looking at these portable DVD players for years. Remember when they were 400-500 dollars or more? Now we have a large selection available for far less. The Sony weighs in at a bit under 200 dollars. If you read the reviews on these players, you'll generally see some happy users and an almost universal amount of folks whose units went belly up fairly soon. Here's the bottom line. Just about ALL of these players are built cheaply. Speaking to a friend and a large retailer, I learned that almost all see a fair amount of returns, including the pricier units. No matter which unit you buy BE SURE to buy an extended warranty so you can get a replacement if it dies. Now....on to the Sony. This unit appears to be better built than most of the others. It has a solid feel and the screen hinge is more robust than others. The unit is slim, black and looks more like a 400 dollar unit when sitting next to entries from Toshiba or Magnavox. The screen rotates 180 degrees in one direction and will fold back flat against the unit creating a tablet type player/viewer. This is perfect for headrest or wall hanging, but Sony has made no provision for this so you'll need to improvise. Screen quality: Well....here's the meat and potatoes. Based on my many years of audio and video usage on the higher end of the market, I'd say the FX810 has average video quality, which is to say less than stunning. Viewing the screen dead on makes for poor viewing. Tilt the screen a bit and you get a more contrasty effect. Resolution is passable, but nothing to write home about. Frankly, none of the small screens are very impressive and offer less detail than a good notebook computer. Still, the image is "just fine" for it's intended purpose and watching a movie is no problem. Color and hue have that less than accurate LCD look, but again, quite passable as entertainment. Sound quality: Pretty weak, as on every one of these units without exception. A pair of headphones or even cheap external powered speakers will help a lot. This is not a flaw, but a limitation due to the size of the player. Sony did what they could with some very tiny speakers. Battery life: WOW! Sony's battery is a killer and ran my unit for two whole movies, well beyond 4 hours and had power to spare. This may be the best on the market in this regard. Charge times are somewhat long, taking nearly five hours. The unit will charge while playing as well and will work off the included AC adapter or 12 volt cigarette lighter plug. Feature set: This is a pretty basic unit. It won't play DTS tracks and it has only composite out. I feel that without S-Video and progressive scan, Sony has focused on making this a more solid unit in other areas, such as overall build quality. The FX810 ships with a remote that is full size. It's a bit odd to have such a clunky remote for a portable DVD player, but it's easier to use and won't have you hunting for little odd batteries used by the credit card remotes. Video in/out plugs are included with RCA's to connect to a TV. You can also send in a video game or video camera signal in. A single switch toggles between AV in/out. Another Bottom Line: Do YOU really need one of these? I have a DVD player with 7.1 dolby in my van, but I wanted a small player for my 35 foot sailboat that could also feed a larger 13" screen. This fits the bill. Features like progressive scan would be a waste on something like this. The long battery life is nice and folks who fly a lot will certainly appreciate that. If Sony makes a version with a 10" screen, higher resolution and keeps the battery life they'll see quite a few sales. In the end I still feel this is one of the better units, if not the biggest, around. For under 200.00 it's fun and cheap, but looks pricey. Just spend a few dollars more on the warranty and you'll be good to go! Capt RB 35s5 NY Comments (6) | Permalink | (Report this)
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