Philips DCP951/37 9-Inch Portable DVD Player with iPod Docking by Philips
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Digital camera reviews of Philips DCP951/37 9-Inch Portable DVD Player with iPod Docking
Digital camera Review: Just right for my needs
Summary: 5 Stars
This player was exactly what I was looking for: needed a "monitor" for our elliptical trainer for my wife and I to watch TV shows while working out. The ability to use a video iPod or iTouch makes this work perfectly for us. Her shows. My shows. Plenty of content to go around. Player fits great on the elliptical. Much more prudent than balancing one of our $2K MacBook Pros on the elliptical. Also works (somewhat) with iPhone-- although the iPhone is too tall to slide back into the unit, so the tray sticks out of the side as you see in the images. Overall, couldn't be happier.Digital camera Review: Just what we needed
Summary: 5 Stars
Great picture and sound. Easy to set up and control. A star in the making!Digital camera Review: Love it!
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this for travleing with my 2 year old and boy has it been great! Picture quality is really good and I love that we can also play things off of the ipod. WE also have used it as a tv - dvd player in hotels a lot. The only draw back for us has been not being able to find a holder or attachment for the car. Someone has to hold it for him to watch in the car.Digital camera Review: Misconceptions about Compatability
Summary: 4 Stars
Most of the basics have been covered by other reviewers. The very basic stuff you know and expect has been given the proper attention.
However there are a few things about this unit that are just plain wrong or misleading.
-This unit CAN read movies from the memory card slot. DVD's encoded as AVI's can be read. With a smaller screen you'll want to scale down to less than half of the original DVD resolution (320 width on widescreen format), but the files will be recognized by the unit and can be played on it.
-The iPod dock will ONLY act as a conduit for movies that are compatible with the iPod on models that support movies. This means that unless you can load the video into iTunes and watch it on your iPod then it isn't going to work on the DVD player. The unit is simply taking the video stream from the iPod and putting it to the screen. It is NOT decoding the video at all.
-Movies encoded for the iPod and loaded onto a memory card can NOT be read by the unit. It will see the files but it will be read as an incompatible format.
-Movies in AVI format can be burned to a CD or DVD and read in the exact same manner as using a memory card.
-The entire "DivX functionality" is only with DivX versions 4 and 5 for encoding media. As the current DivX release is up to 7, well, you get the idea. The integration of the unit with this name brand is almost exclusively so that they could push customers to buy movies from DivX. Don't think that you need to use the DivX encoder to make video media for this. It's also quite possible that the unit might not read newer movies encoded with version 7 from the Divx site. Consider this a warning to stay away from the notion that DivX is necessary or really much of an option.
The bottom line is that this is quite a good dvd player. The screen has one of the best pictures I've seen and has enough expansion to not have many limitations to it. The iPod integration is nice, but unless you've dedicated a significant amounts of time and energy to moving media onto one, it shouldn't really be seen as a selling point.
Digital camera Review: Neat idea, poorly executed
Summary: 1 Stars
Tried it, didn't like it. It's speakers are not powerful enough. The plastic of the disc door and tray are too flimsy. The curved shape of the case makes it nearly impossible to use the (also flimsy) stand. The unit gets too hot, it would be uncomfortable in your lap. The remote doesn't work more than a few feet from it and then only when you're facing straight to it. All in all, it's a neat idea just not very well executed.