Philips PET 716 Portable DVD Player

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 the train or in public generally. Price I 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...

anslomic 24.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Philips PET 716

portable dvd player 8-in dcp850 philips

Advantages: quality of image is like watching normal tv/dvd, IPOD classic docking
Disadvantages: can't think of any

...I was looking for a dvd player to take while travelling abroad. The philips DCP range was actually quite new and had only been out a couple of months. In addition this bay lets the IPOD classic integrate as part of the unit and is flush so you can't tell. when you are not using the IPOD docking you can store the remote there. The remote is very handy and perfectly sized with the same functions as you would have in a normal DVD player The quality is as good as any normal TV/dvd combo so there is no compromise on the viewing experience. I spent all my time in airport watching my home tv shows. The speakers are really good too and do not compromise the viewing experience at all It is a fantastic unit for travelling and I highly rate it, is tough enough to take knocks while travelling but treat with care...

jupiter28 27.03.2008 · Read review
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Review of Philips Philips DCP850

Phillips GoGear

Advantages: Great Player
Disadvantages: None I Can Think Of

...------------------------------- Phillips GoGear HDD085 ------------------------------- Off we go with the Phillips GoGear HDD085 proving to be one of the best MP3 players that I have ever had. Of course most people won?t have heard of it but it is very much in line with the ipod in some respects. Upon wanting a suitable MP3 player I decided to do a little bit of research as always and then try some out. At the time the ipod?s were just being released and everyone was trying to get hold of them even though they were still very high in costs. So not really wanting to pay for an ipod I carried on looking around for another device that could hold a very lot of songs and then listen to them with a decent set of headphones. That?s where I came around to get this snaggy little thing from Argos costing me just over a hundred pounds...

iamthebest1 08.06.2007 · Read review
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Review of Philips Gogear HDD086 mp3 player

Technika MP-308 4GB MP3 player with FM tuner

Advantages: Wide range of features
Disadvantages: Difficult to navagate menus

...The MP-308 is Tesco?s current top of the range mini MP3 player with FM radio, and at 3p shy of £30 places it firmly in the budget end of the market. Having very recently ?goosed? my previous player doing a firmware upgrade, I got mine as an impulse purchase. It?s small ? about the same size as a lighter, and has a rechargeable battery, so running costs are minimal. You get everything you need; the player, a USB lead, a pair of cheap headphones, and a set of paper instructions and a mini-CD. In fact if you?ve previously owned an MP3 player, you can probably dispense with the last two items, the player supports traditional ?drag?n?drop? from your ?my music? folder. The instructions suggest that it?s far better to use the application which comes with the machine, that way you can make playlists, catalogue your albums and so...

dobieg 23.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of Technika MP3 player

The Best Portable DVD Player For This Price!

Advantages: Great picture, Good audio, Nice to look at.
Disadvantages: Sound cannot go as high as some other portable DVD players.

...this product was because I often keep lots of pictures on my iPod by using it as a memory device. With this DVD player I could easily view my images strait from my iPod with no worries at all. This is really great for viewing slideshows as I do not need to keep swapping disks as I can just stream the images from my iPod. I find this feature also saves me on disk usage as I can now view all my home made images on a DVD player without the need to burn the images to a disk. This has saved me a countless number of disks as I often take many stills for slideshows in my Media Studies classes as well as my photography and film classes. Overview = This is the latest portable DVD player from Phillips that is designed more to save on price than to include all the latest features. This does not mean however that the quality of what you are...

Craigshadow12 27.07.2007 · Read review
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Review of Philips PET730

DVD player for girls with a passion for fashion

Advantages: remote, nice design, portable
Disadvantages: battery pack is a bit bulky

...I am sure anyone with a similar aged daughter to mine (9 on Sunday) will have had exactly the same situation as me last Christmas. My daughter came to me with an Argos book in one hand and one hell of a shopping list in the other! When we added it all up, it came to about £700 (and she's good at maths so I think she was pushing things a little there!). We whittled it down a bit (!) and it still left her spoilt rotten. Now, I had really good intentions to stick at that list... but it didn't happen! Most of you will have seen the many Argos adverts prior to Christmas with the half price offers. I caught the end of one and saw this Bratz portable DVD player in the pile of toys shown on the advert so went online for a look. I had been considering buying it since my friend bought it her daughter for a birthday present and told me...

lizngaz 14.02.2008 · Read review
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Review of Bratz Portable DVD Player

Brilliant portable DVD player

Advantages: Looks great, plays great, lots of accessories, multiregion
Disadvantages: no free headphones

...I frequently travel on the train for 3 hour journeys each way so I wanted a portable DVD player to stop me being bored rigid. I happily chose the Shinco 1731A portable DVD player for the following reasons 1) The seven inch model was small, easily portable but the colour ActiveMatrix TFT screen didn't seem too small when watching films on the train. THe screen also has a 400:1 contrast ratio giving really clear pictures. 2) I wanted a multiregion portable DVD player so I could use all formats (1-6). This DVD player also plays other formats, including DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD+RW, CD, CD-R, CD-RW, MP3, JPEG and Kodak Picture CD. The Shinco also has multi language/angle/subtitle capability, zoom play and programmable play and comes with a tiny remote control. 3) I wanted a portable DVD player that I could use with my TV set at home or in...

rollerskaterabbit 13.03.2005 · Read review
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Review of Shinco 1731A Portable DVD Player

Philips SA177 - Definatley One To Look Out For

Advantages: Great Design
Disadvantages: Can Be Expensive

...For those of you who don't know what a MP3 player is here is a quick explanation. They are small devices which can hold loads more songs than your average CD. The Philips SA177 has a 512mb internal memory. That can hold about 250 tracks from CDs etc or 125 special MP3 downloaded tracks. You can of course have a mixture of both. One of the main reasons I chose this MP3 player is because of its looks and size. I don't have a huge music collection so I did not see the point in getting an iPod. I decided to get a stick MP3 player. There are 3 advantages for getting this type of MP3 player they are, you can also use this MP3 player as a memory stick to carry all sorts of documents. You can also plug this player in to any ones computer and it will recognize it without the software.(this is really handy if you friend has an album on their...

lfc-4-ever 05.04.2006 · Read review
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Review of Philips SA177 MP3 Player

Philips GoGear MP3 player - go get one !

Advantages: Compact, great sound quality
Disadvantages: You need a PC

...need "drivers" (special files which tell the computer how to communicate with the MP3 player) - just plug it in and away you go. Older operating systems (Windows 98 or earlier) will need you to install the drivers first but the Philips MP3 player supplies these on disc. ~~ What is in the box ? ~~ The Philips GoGear MP3 player comes with :- - MP3 player (thankfully) - plug-in ear phones - lanyard to carry it around with - external battery pack - instruction manual and disc ~~ Features ~~ The MP3 player I bought was a 256mb version which I managed to fit 3 albums onto as some of the songs were quite long, otherwise I could probably have got another 5 songs or more. The player displays the track that is playing which is handy if you want to skip to your favourite tracks. The player recharges via your computer's USB...

nigeofnewbury 05.06.2005 · Read review
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Review of Philips GoGear Key011 128 MB

Phillips Gogear 512mb mp3 player

Advantages: charge time, simple to use, nimble.
Disadvantages: 16 hours of play only possible with large and annoying battery pack!

...I really wanted an MP3 player. At the time the mobile phone MP3 players were pointless due to lack of space, being bulky, and basically rubbish quality meant a portable MP3 player for any music listener was a must. Looking around, there's always going to be the cheap gadgets on the market. I try and stay away for them because, even if they do what it says on the box, the actual quality of the amp on them is usually very bad quality, and they usually have poor battery life, which means charging them for longer than you're actually listening to them. However, Philips have a good reputation, so when the Philips GoGear 512MB Player came on at a good price, I thought why not? And I haven't looked back. At around £40, a 512Mb player was especially good. Good battery (up to 8 hours of play) and charging (takes about 30 minutes for total...

chris_ray 03.09.2007 · Read review
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Review of Philips GoGear 512 MB SA177