Advantages: Sleek, modern design, good quality screen and speakers Disadvantages: Battery life of just over 2 hours
A sleek but sturdy portable DVD player with up to 2 hours of battery life, good quality screen and speakers and mobile functionality. Recommended.
Appearance
The DVD player is very compact and attractive. It has a white outer shell and a black interior fascia. There is a flip up drawer on the bottom half where you put the DVDs in, which is opened by sliding the button on the front panel. It is smart and modern enough to be confident to use it on ... ...paid £70.00 for the player a few months ago, but I strongly advise other to shop around as I understand it can not be bought for around £50.00. It is well worth either price in my opinion.
Operation
The buttons on the player itself provide rather limited functionality: Play, Pause, Skip, Forward, Rewind, Stop, Menu and AV Out/DVD. It is by using the remote control that the player comes into its own. In addition to the functionality available by ...
anslomic 24.10.2009
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Advantages: High quality playback, doesn't just play DVDs, fairly cheap Disadvantages: Short battery life.
Bought this a while back and quite pleased with it. I would recommend shopping around if you want to buy this as there is a huge variety in price, I got it for around 50 pounds.
It can play alot more that DVDs, something that I was quite impressed with. You can play DVD, DVD+/-R and DVD+/-RW, VCD, DivX and MPEG4 movies. It is also capable of playing music and Plays MP3-CD, CD and CD-RW. However, I tend to use it more as a DVD player as there are ... ...is quite good, and the player has an LCD display. The screen size is only 7" but considering you very rarely watch movies on it from more than a metre away from your face, that's not that bad. It also has a built in stereo speaker, which is actually really loud and clear, for when you don't want to use head phones.
One bad point I have found with this is that it is impossible to reach the end of most movies on the charge alone, having a meagre 2 ...
anakha6 23.11.2008
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Quick review of Philips PET 716
This is a great portable DVD player for the average user. I found it very easy to use (easy to get around menus). It is reasonably priced as well which is good news for us all! For those of you that prefer larger screens, this may not be the choice for you. ...
rimounshoukry 22.01.2009
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Advantages: Easy to use. Disadvantages: short battery life.
Philips PET 716 is good for avarage user. IT is very easy to use. It has aLCD display. good quality. Its screen size is 7 inch - image aspect ratio 16:9.Built in stereo speaker 250mW. They are clear& loud.Its Av format -DivX, MP3, MPEG-4,JPEG.
Support media-CD-R,CD-RW.
DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW. DVD Region-2 Height- 3.7 cm.
width- 19.7cm.
Depth-15.3 cm.
It is very good look withcool look.
Product quality is very impressive. playback compalibility.
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sudarshanwgh 07.02.2009
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: somewhat helpful Review of Philips PET 716