Sungale DVD 8500 Progressive-Scan DVD with Karaoke (Silver)

Sungale DVD 8500 Progressive-Scan DVD with Karaoke (Silver)
Manufacturer: Amoisonic
Product Type: CE

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Amazon.com Product Description
Sungale's affordable model DVD 8500 DVD player offers everything you need to source a spiffy home theater--and karaoke functionality, too. Standing a mere 1.8 inches tall, the DVD 8500 boasts a sleek, silver chassis with a mirror-black front panel and a VFD (vacuum-fluorescent display) for vivid disc-information readouts. The player also offers high-end component-video outputs (switchable between progressive and interlaced modes), built-in MP3 decoding, and support for JPEG image CDs so you can watch a digital-photo slideshow right on your living-room television.

Whether your living room is currently home to an HDTV or you're merely thinking of "someday," the DVD 8500 is ready to deliver the full potential of your DVDs. Progressive scanning, referred to as 480p for the number of horizontal lines that compose the video image, creates a picture using twice the scan lines of a conventional DVD picture, giving you higher resolution and sharper images while eliminating nearly all motion artifacts.

The player's component-video outputs offer a choice of progressive and interlaced signals (YPbPr and YCbCr); interlaced component-video signals still minimize line-scan artifacts on compatible televisions, while composite- and S-video outputs bring compatibility with nearly any television.

When it's time to party, invite your friends over, pop in a karaoke CD or DVD, plug in a microphone or two, and you're ready for full-blown sing-along action, duets and all, with independent level controls for each mic input.

Both Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1-channel surround-sound signals can be routed through the player's digital-audio outputs (one each optical and coaxial) for direct connection to a full-featured audio/video receiver. Alternately, built-in Dolby Digital decoding lets you feed multichannel analog outputs to receivers with compatible multichannel inputs (many older models do not permit digital-audio connections).

A 192 kHz, 24-bit digital-to-analog converter ensures optimum decoding of all disc formats, including HDCD (High-Definition Compatible Digital), a 20-bit encoding method used on many commercial CDs to deliver better sound than is possible through standard CDs.

Playback options include overseas use (the player offers both NTSC and PAL video outputs and auto-switching 110 to 240V, 50 or 60 Hz power input), picture zoom with zoom panning, time search during playback, and a screen saver to prevent image burn-in if you keep a disc in pause mode for an extended period.

What's in the Box
DVD player, remote control, remote batteries, user's manual, stereo analog audio interconnect/composite-video cable.

Average customer rating: 4.5

A great LCD monitor, but kind of pricey!
absolutely fabulous style; not the best price

Sony SDM-N50 15" LCD Monitor

Manufacturer: Sony
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B00004YNSP

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Amazon.com Product Description

With a wafer-thin screen, Sony's SDM-N5O monitor is perfectly suited for users with limited desk space. The screen measures a mere 0.5 inch at its edge, and the total weight is less than 6 pounds. The bi-flex arm supplies a variety of viewing angles, while two cool technologies--Digital FlexRes and Auto ImageSet--maintain clear color separation and crisp imaging from every point of view.

The single cord that handles the SDM-N50's audio, video, and power can easily be tucked out of sight, allowing you to achieve that old dream of a clutter-free workspace. The full 15 inches of screen provides the perfect-size view for users in a variety of applications, but where space is at a premium.

For users who enjoy their computer's audio functions as much as the video, the two built-in speakers are a real bonus. Fitted into the frame, they contain the expected Sony quality but consume little additional space. Two onscreen controls supply bass boost and wide-stereo settings, for a true home-theater experience. The other 14 onscreen controls allow users to easily customize their settings and choose from multiple languages.

Sony's limited warranty covers parts, labor, and backlight for a full three years. --Jill Lightner

Product Description

The new SDM-N50 is ultra-modern and ergonomic in its design, with a black front-frame and reflective chrome back-plate in a panel only 12 mm thin, weighing less than 3 kg. This sleekness of form is made possible by separating the LCD unit from its PC connections and power supply, housing these electronics in a small Media Box. But the N50 has more than just good looks to offer. Unique new Sony features such as an infra-red 'user sensor' for maximum energy savings, an ambient light sensor for automatic screen brightness adjustment, Virtual Sound System circuitry - combined with impressive speakers - for unparalleled sound quality and a double pivot ergostand for optimal viewing put this display at the top of its field. Sharp images, wide viewing angles and intuitive user controls are of course what you?d expect from this superbly designed display.

Customer Reviews:

A great LCD monitor, but kind of pricey!.......2002-02-17

A great LCD monitor, but kind of pricey! For those of you who have a limited desk space, I would highly recommend this monitor cause you can adjust the angle and height, which hardly any other monitor manufacture has this adjustment. You will be questioned by many and few who will ask why anyone would pay [price]for this type of monitor and elsewhere you can get a Samsung 15" 570V TFT LCD Monitor and others!

Just say to them that the Sony monitor is able to be placed in a very tight, small desktop area, where space is extremely limited.

Also, this monitor comes built with stereo speakers to hook up to your sound board. Has bass boost, stereo wide settings, etc.

Would I highly recommend this to you, yes, if your needs are like mine where your desktop space is extremely limited and you want an LCD type of monitor!

absolutely fabulous style; not the best price.......2001-05-04

I have the PS version of this LCD panel (without the stand & speakers). It looks stunning, because it is so light, thin, and stylish. It takes up the least space on the desktop of ANY 15" monitor (CRT or LCD). The analog to digital conversion is rock-solid.

My unit has one pixel that is stuck on. This is common with LCD panels, and is only noticeable with very dark images.

You pay a price for style, however. Sony prices this model higher than most other LCD panels. ... :)

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