Coby DVD-515 High-Res 5.1 Channel DVD

Coby DVD-515 High-Res 5.1 Channel DVD
Manufacturer: Coby
Product Type: CE

Editorial Review:
Product Description
Coby Electronics is a manufacturer of quality consumer electronics products designed to deliver outstanding performance for value conscious consumers who do not compromise on product performance. Coby incorporates new designs with innovative technologies to produce great looking and great performing consumer electronics products.PRODUCT FEATURES:Progressive scan DVD player;Super slim design (2 Inches);5.1 channel system;Plays DVD/MP3/CD/CD-R/CD-RW/Kodak picture CD;Compatible with PAL/NTSC;Multiple subtitles/viewing angles;Convenient on screen display;Zoom operation;Parental lock control;Remote control;FCC approved & ETL listed;FDA approved.
Amazon.com Product Description
Coby's DVD-515 plays your favorite DVDs and a range of popular digital media files, offering MP3 listening convenience alongside high-end video functionality--including a dedicated progressive-scan VGA computer-monitor output so you can take advantage of your monitor's high-end video abilities even if your home-theater TV is SD (standard definition). The player also works well with older audio/video receivers, which may lack digital-audio inputs: the DVD-515 decodes both Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1-channel surround formats.

Whether your living room is currently home to an HDTV or you're merely thinking of "someday," the DVD-515 stands 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.

Top-of-the-line component-video outputs (switchable between progressive-scan and standard interlaced video) help minimize digital and line-scan artifacts on compatible advanced televisions, while composite- and S-video outputs bring compatibility with nearly any television.

A set of left/right analog-audio outputs channel audio to Dolby Pro Logic receivers and stereo televisions. Both Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1-channel surround-sound signals can be routed through the player's digital-audio outputs (one each of RCA coaxial and Toslink optical) for direct connection to a full-featured audio/video receiver, or you can take advantage of the unit's built-in decoding and use it with a "surround-ready" receiver as mentioned above.

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

Average customer rating: 3.5

terrific LITTLE pda
Great PDA, inadequate bundled PIM
Awesome
Incompatibility Problems. Not recommended.
Nice screen, but poor synchronization options

Xircom Rex 6000 with USB Docking Station

Manufacturer: XIRCOM
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B00004Z73L

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Amazon.com Product Description

The Xircom Rex 6000 is an ultracompact and lightweight PDA, about the size of a credit card. It is a full-function organizer that is small enough to fit comfortably in your pocket, and the 2 MB memory is powerful enough to keep up with your busy schedule by organizing all your essential information. The quick touch-screen navigation makes the Rex 6000 simple and easy to use. It features a calendar, contacts, task lists, and memos. You also can download Internet content from Rex's Web site.

The docking station connects directly to your desktop computer or laptop and enables you to synchronize information between the Rex 6000 and your PC. You can also directly synchronize data with your laptop computer by inserting the Rex 6000 (which is a Type II-compatible PC Card) into the PC Card slot.

Product Description

Xircom presents the lightest, full-function MicroPDA with quick touch-screen navigation. The REX 6000 is a full-function organizer that's small enough to fit comfortably in your pocket, and powerful enough to organize all your essential information. Manage your calendar, contacts, task lists, and memos, plus download Internet content. Synchronize information between the REX 6000 and your desktop computer via USB or serial-connected cradle, or directly to your laptop computer via the PC Card slot. REX 6000 includes Intellisync software for synchronizing information between the PC and the REX.

Customer Reviews:

terrific LITTLE pda.......2001-08-23

For the size of this PDA it is jam packed! I have read all of these reviews and decided some of the reviewers did not spent enough time and patience with it. I could tell you what each of their problems were. You must also realize that REX is small. If you cant read small print, you wont like it. I have had my 6000 since its introduction almost a year ago. I was one of the first to get mine. I love it dearly and use it daily. I was a previous REX user and find the 6000 the best! If you have trouble with the software there is a solution, because all the other dedicated REXers have made it work. Also note there ARE "addins" available, just not through the manufacturer. There is a whole world of REXers out there. There are many wonderful REX-writing people who have made everything from scientific calculator to tetris game (solitaire and others of course) to expense manager and even a program to write little REX emails on it! These writer gurus are amazing and most addins are available for free download. For the size of the REX, you get a lot. I can not think of anything more I would want it to do! I certainly did not want to tote the large Palm around. REX is the size of a credit card and does almost as much... I am in the process of finding a second just in case anything ever happens to mine!

Great PDA, inadequate bundled PIM.......2001-06-03

Time magazine's "PDAs on a diet" compared the Vista and Rex PDAs. I read the review and quickly changed from the Vista to the Rex 6000. The Rex was like a breath of fresh air, especially when I had to reschedule alarms. The bundled PIM, unfortunately, is more primitive than the Vista's PIM, since the latter allowed drag-and-drop rescheduling and sorting of memo entries by any displayed categories. Guess I'll have to invest in MS Outlook for a flexible PIM. Thanx.

Erick

Awesome.......2001-05-20

It downloads news and other information from the internet.

It has an awesome touchscreen.

Synchronization is fullproof and easy! You can even set it to tell you whenever it's about to overwrite or change something! This eliminates all synch errors. I synch with Outlook 2000, and it did everything to perfection.

This thing can do EVERYTHING my palm can do, but is less cumbersome than the palm.

This is by far, the greatest personal information manager ever.

Incompatibility Problems. Not recommended........2001-04-24

Just got my new Rex 6000 and I'm outraged. As a loyal Rex Pro owner who wanted to upgrade to the touchscreen model, I feel I have been left out high & dry, as will the majority who attempt this transition. The PIM included with the Rex 6000 is not compatible with the Starfish TrueSync software of the older models, which makes very difficult to use existing card files, memos and other data. In essence, you have to start over again and rewrite all your files, unless you want to try a complicated import/export operation through MS Outlook in order to transfer existing data from the TrueSync desktop to the new Rex 6000 desktop and device. But that's not the worse. As it turns out, the PIM included with the Rex 6000 is far more primitive, user unfriendly, unintuitive and complicated than the Starfish. I would never buy it on a stand-alone basis. It's lousy.

This incompatibility took me completely by surprise, as the Rex 6000 literature and advertisements certainly don't go out of the way to warn owners of the older models of the problem. Now that it is too late, and after re-reading the Rex 6000 specs, I can see that mention is made of a PIM included with the Rex 6000 that is different from the TrueSync of the older models. But it is unreasonable to expect people to assume that the software will be totally incompatible. It would be as if a Palm or Visor owner found out after buying the latest model that his existing software, operating system and files do not work with the new model, or could not be easily updated. You expect some continuity in a product line, unless you are clearly warned to the contrary. Not recommended.

Nice screen, but poor synchronization options.......2001-04-20

I have recently purchased both the 5001 and the 6000 series REX, and found the 5001 to be more flexible in its synching options, and less delicate.

I use my REX primarily as an address book, to do list and notes. Input is not a big issue for me, nor is Web content downloads.

The 5001 uses the Starfish TrueSync technology to synch with any number of devices, including cell phones, Yahoo and Palm Desktop. I actually synch mine with both Palm Desktop and Yahoo simultaneously so that I have access to my addresses over the Internet.

The 6000 does not support TrueSync, limiting my synchronization options to be only Outlook, and the bundled desktop application. The 6000 also seems to be more delicate with both the screen and the buttons.

Bottom line: I just returned my 6000 and am ordering a second 5001.

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