Advantages: Few extra features. Disadvantages: Not enough extra features.
Remember when a DVD player was just something you shoved a disk in, and it played it (how boring's that?). To compete with the ever expanding market, DVD players are having to multitask more and more. This one seems to be having a go at multitasking but it's as if it's heart isn't really in it.
Look and Design
Basic is the word. A traditional black look more resembling a video player than a DVD player with nothing flashy or shiny to entertain the easily amused. It's a bit on the bulky side, just like Gordon Brown, (Don't ask me where that joke came from, I have no idea). But then the extra bulk is necessary, unlike Gordon Brown's, in order to incorporate the VHS player.
Function
We'll it works like any other DVD player, you put a disk in and it plays it. The picture is pretty good by the way. But it ...
Advantages: Easy to use, quick operation, good quality playback Disadvantages: Remote control buttons small, front panel display small and basic
The Samsung DVD-V6700S (UK version) comes in attractive silver and is quite a wide unit as it supports both DVD playing and video tape recording/playing. The unit height is low, giving a slim appearance, but make sure you have room for the width.
A good number of digital/analogue I/O (including on the front panel) allows it to be connected in many combinations to other equipment.
Video/sound quality is good, including tape recording/playback.
The front panel display is small, making it difficult to see from across the room, though there's not much information on it.
Remote control buttons are small with the legends difficult to see if your eyesight is not so good. Operation is straightforward though.
The on-screen menus aren't too well arranged but it doesn't take too long to understand them.
TV channel setup is ...
Advantages: CLEAR PICTURE AND WONDERFUL SOUND. Disadvantages: A COMBINATION THAT ONLY WORKS ONE AT A TIME.
I am not sure why this is listed as a DVD player only, as the V6500 Model is a combination DVD/Video player.
My reason for buying it was to save space, rather than having two units, although I am disappointed, both in myself for my lack of expertise in knowing what to look for in a combination unit, and hopelessly failing to buy a combination that fills my expectations.
Coming from the middle of the range available to me, I thought that the Hundred Pound mark was reasonable for a combination, taking the stance that the expensive ones were beyond my means, and the cheap ones probably below my expectations.
Samsung have been around for a while so I trusted the name, and was comparing them with Phillips and Thompson within the same price range, and I wished I had looked further into the specifications that the combination affords ...
Product Information for "Adcom Adcom GDV-850 DVD-V" »
Product details
Table / Portable
Not Portable
Manufacturer
Adcom
Manufacturer's product description
The GDV-850 was designed from the ground up to be a high resolution DVD component. Every element in the design was created to bring the capabilities of digital technology to our analog world. Designed to maximize the high resolution potential of DVD media, the GDV-850 features: linear power supply for audio and video, progressive scan video output with field adaptive deinterlacing, and high resolution analog audio.
