Samsung DVD-L1200 12" Portable DVD Player

Samsung DVD-L1200 12" Portable DVD Player
Manufacturer: Samsung
Product Type: CE

Editorial Review:
Product Description
With its 12" LCD screen, thin design (approx 1"), rich surround sound capability, you will never want to be very far from this unit.
Amazon.com Product Description
Early Adopters Pick: November 2003. The world's first portable DVD player with a 12-inch LCD screen.

Pushing the limits of portability, Samsung's widescreen DVD-L1200 DVD player manages to pack a laptop-rivaling 12-inch TFT LCD screen into a chassis standing a mere inch high when folded. Enjoy the best of your movies, music, and digital photography through the player's multiformat playback abilities, including MP3 and JPEG image CD-Rs and CD-RWs as well as standard DVD-Videos, DVD-Rs, and commercial CDs.

The whole family can listen, too, through either the unit's inline stereo speakers or its generous three .125-inch headphone jacks. Spatializer virtual surround simulates enveloping sound effects through two channels, and motion zoom allows extreme magnification of selected screen areas, without distortion, even while a movie is playing.

The screen displays discs using 480p progressive scanning (named for the number of horizontal lines that compose the video image), creating a high-resolution picture with sharper images and fewer motion artifacts than conventional portables.

Other great features include screen inversion, which flips the widescreen picture vertically so you can mount the player upside down, as in a kitchen or an RV, and Samsung's Smart Screen Brightness Control, which monitors ambient light and adjusts the LCD's backlight accordingly to improve clarity and contrast and extended your battery life. The unit's rugged disc bay ensures that the show goes on no matter how you position the player.

Composite- and S-video outputs let you hook the player up with your home television, while its coaxial digital-audio output will channel discrete, 5.1-channel Dolby Digital and DTS surround sound to a range of audio/video receivers and surround speaker setups. For extra convenience, the AV output doubles as a switchable AV input, letting you hook up a camcorder or gaming device for portable big-screen viewing.

What's in the Box
DVD player, battery pack (affixes to back of player), AC adapter, power cord, credit-card remote control, remote battery, composite- and S-video interconnect cables, stereo analog audio interconnect, user's manual, and warranty information.

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Amazon.com Review

The Palm V Connected Organizer is the popular and sleek PDA that some claim has changed their lives. The software is basically the same as that of the Palm III series (Palm III, IIIx, IIIe, and IIIxe), but the physical unit is significantly enhanced.

At only 4.7 by 3.2 inches, the Palm V's elegant anodized-aluminum case is far smaller and lighter than that of the Palm III series and Palm VII organizers, and at 0.4 inches thick, it's truly pocket-sized. However, the Palm V lacks the Palm VII's Palm.Net feature. (Palm.Net is a wireless communication service for Internet messaging and Web clipping--a feature that permits you to shop on the Internet and retrieve e-mail, news, sports, flight information, weather reports, and so on.) The Palm V also looks super cool, an intangible value, to be sure, but one that's hard to argue with.

The Palm V shares the same improvements to its screen that were made to the Palm IIIx. The screen is sharp and has contrast-variable backlighting, which makes the Palm V easy to use in low-light conditions. Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, which charge while the unit sits in its HotSync cradle, make battery life a nonissue. (The Palm III series uses alkaline batteries.)

We had no trouble setting up the Palm V, synching it with our PC-based Netscape e-mail, using the Graffiti handwriting-recognition software, or working with the Address Book, Date Book, Memo Writer, To-Do List, and all the other applications that put the Palm OS on the map. The Palm V comes with 2 MB of nonexpandable memory, a tradeoff for its slim design. While less than ideal, the memory limitation doesn't seem to be significant in practice--3Com rates the unit for 6,000 addresses, five years' worth of appointments, 1,500 to-dos and memos, and 200 e-mails.

All in all, this is a great and fun-to-use member of the family of organizers that has become the most popular in the world. If this is your first Palm, it's a great way to start.

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