Panasonic DVD-A115 DVD Player

Panasonic DVD-A115 DVD Player
Manufacturer: Panasonic
Product Type: CE

Editorial Review:
Product Description
The Panasonic DVD-A115 carries over the advanced performance features for the highest picture and sound quality. With the Quick Start mechanism, Chapter Preview, Dialogue Enhancer, Advanced Virtual Surround Sound, Hi-Speed Smooth Motion Scan (5 speeds up to 100x) and Dolby Digital/DTS outputs as standard features, the DVD-A115 is an exceptional value.The Chapter Preview feature conveniently refreshes your memory if you should miss part of a movie (if, for example, you've fallen asleep right in the middle of the story!). You can also scan forward or backward in up to 100 times normal speed, with no video distortion. When viewing a movie, you no longer have to strain to hear the dialogue in a noisy scene. The new Dialogue Enhancer feature boosts the volume of the center channel - where most of the principal dialogue emanates when playing a Dolby Digital 5.1 disc - by 6 dB. This feature greatly enhances the overall viewing experience. Quick Start allows picture to appear on screen in a matter of seconds. Further contributing to audio performance is Advanced Virtual Surround Sound (VSS). When active, viewers can enjoy a simulated 5.1 channel effect, downmixed from either a 5.1 channel or two-channel Dolby Digital soundtrack, from the stereo speakers of any home audio system. This feature is ideal for anyone who wants the superior video quality and film buff extras that DVD offers, but doesn't have the room or the budget for a full-blown surround sound system. Easy to Use On-Screen Menu Icons allow you to control a variety of player and disc settings via remote control.

Average customer rating: 3.5

Great External
DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY
Maxtor hard disk
Beware
Excellent

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Maxtor Personal Storage 3200 200 GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive ( U01E200 )

Manufacturer: Maxtor
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B000CDXTXK

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Product Description

Your work, your photos, your songs, your digital video, your memories. Store them all safely and securely in the Maxtor Personal Storage 3200 external hard drive. Ideal for the home and office, it's simple to install - just plug in the USB cable and your Personal Storage solution automatically appears as another drive on your computer. Perfect for the Home PC or laptop user who needs extra storage in a hurry.Use the extra capacity to free up the space on your PC or to add more of your favorite files - every 100GB of storage can hold up to 75, 000 digital photos (JPEG-normal), or 1, 650 hours of digital music (MP3), or 7 hours of DV video.Beneath the sleek industrial design of the Personal Storage 3200 you'll find a surprisingly simple, affordable storage solution. The vertical stand helps keep your work area clutter-free. And Maxtor makes it reliable.

Customer Reviews:

Great External.......2007-03-08

This external stays cool, and I can't hear a thing. I run it almost all day long. I have had it for over a month with out any problems.

DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY.......2007-02-20

I've had this item for only 5 months and all of a sudden it stopped working. I sent it for repairs and first you have to pay $50 for the company to just look at it and diagnose the problem. Next, they tell you you will have to pay between $300 to $5000 to recover your data if it works. The nice thing about this whole ordeal was they would only charge you if the recovery is successful. I lost a lot of my pictures and videos that I cant recover again. I am very disappointed and will never buy from this company again. So, I'm out the $127.99 that I paid for the hard drive, $50 for the diagnostic check, the shipping charges to send to them and to return back to me and alot of my memories....Dont waste your money!!!

Maxtor hard disk.......2007-01-10

The distributor of Maxtor was completely professional. This external hard drive arrived two days early and in perfect shape.

Beware.......2006-12-19

I bought my Maxtor a year and 2 months ago. The warranty is good for one year.
That means that if the Maxtor fails within one year, they will send you a new one, but tough luck on recovering your data. You can protect your investment by buying a new one every year and then trying to figure out how to transfer the data from the old to the new. What a Godsend.
Maxtor promised regular and virtually hands free backups of my hard drive. It was simple to install and set up. After installing I checked it regularly for months and it appeared to work as advertised. After not checking it in months, I discovered it wasn't working but it gave me a diagnostic code.
When I called Maxtor the service was poor. After several efforts to get through, getting switched around, and hanging up on me, they told me that the diagnostic code means that the Maxtor is dead. (Why couldn't they just skip this diagnostic code run around.)
If there is data on the Maxtor that I want, they can try to recover it but it will be very expensive. They wouldn't say how much.
Who knows when this thing failed but if I have to check it daily to make sure it is still working, what good is it? And I really don't know if it would have provided a back up if my hard drive crashed. You have to take it all on faith until disaster hits and then you may find out the system doesn't really work anyway. I would not buy another.

Excellent.......2006-11-28

I've owned this device for two weeks now. The USB 2.0 transfer speed is nothing compared to SATA or SATA II, but to pay a bill for 200GB of storage (which is equal to approximately 190GB if you're computer savvy) and have a small enclosure is great.

So far, I haven't experienced any problems with the drive being recognized on Windows XP Pro SP2 or Windows Media Center Edition. On Server 2003, it loaded but I had to add it as a drive manually using the disk manager utility. Works great if you need a backup drive and plan on doing when not in peak useage.

The drive is very quiet and I haven't experienced any reliability problems to this point. I would have rather had an external SATA drive, but for the price I paid and what it gives I truly don't believe you can beat this deal.

Highly recommended.

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