Terrific High Resolution Screen DVD player !
By Southern Man (Georgia, USA) reviews of Sony DVP FX 820
I have had this portable dvd player for a little over a week now and have enjoyed it throughly….Previously I have owned Panasonic and Polaroid brand players….and this one out shines them both !
The High Definition Screen truly gives your regular DVD’s the look of a Blu-Ray or HD DVD….I have them both in my den and I safely say it’s very close to that quality…maybe not exactly….but until they come out with portable units for Blu-Ray…this is going to be the closest I think you can get !
The screen on this one is 800 x 480 resolution where as most of the players out there have a 320 X 240 screen….that’s a very big difference and it really shows.
The battery life is also excellent ( I do listen with headphones so that helps ) but I have watched about 4 hours with it already and still have 1/3 of a full charge left…so that’s right at about the 6 hours they say you will get.
The last thing I need to comment on is the remote control…I never used to think that was very important on a portable unit…but after not having one on the Polaroid I owned…..I love having this one with a remote that will provide every feature the player will do…all the way to the ON/OFF…It has very nice on screen displays of all the functions….volume level…battery level…..everything.
Also it doesn’t get hot at all…I know my Panasonic got pretty hot on the bottom…not this one….and it’s also very quiet…makes very minimal noise.
Can’t honestly think of a way they could improve this player !
******************UPDATED April 15th 2008*****************
After having this for a few weeks I wanted to update my review.
First I have added several pictures up top in the gallery for everyone so they can actually SEE the player and not just Sony Shots.
Also I have tried DVD-R’s and +R’s in the players now and they work perfect…no problems what so ever…With a program recorded for 2 hour Length on a DVD-R it looks like a commercial quality DVD.
One more thing on the battery life…I am not getting the full 6 hours….more like 4 1/2 …then if I try and watch something that’s a hour long I don’t get all the way through it…..once it shows the last bar on the battery graph you have about 1 more hour to watch…maybe a little more….but about a hour.
But I am still loving this player very very nice !
********************One last update May 3rd********************
I have a big tip for everyone…If you turn the LCD brightness down from a Level 20 (the default) to a Level 10…which is still plenty bright…you can improve your battery life very much !….I am now getting the full 6 hours from the battery and that’s the only change I made 