KiSS DP-558 Networkable DVD Player with TV Tuner and 80 GB Hard Drive
KiSS DP-558 Networkable DVD Player with TV Tuner and 80 GB Hard Drive
Manufacturer: Kiss
Product Type: CE
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Digital Video Recorder from the next generation, the DP-558 proves to be more than what is first expected from such a product. What if you could watch live television, then pause it for a while and start it again when you are ready to watch more. What if you could browse through an electronic program guide, find the desired program, press Record and the schedule for the next recording would be set. What now if you could have online services directly available from your television screen, be able to see the weather forecast or just play games.th the user Friendly Software KiSS PC-Link. On top of these well known features, the KiSS DP-558 offers recording facilities, thanks to its TV Tuner, recording TV on its built-in Hard Drive will be as easy as it was done on VHS, with some major advantages such as very high sound quality, a sharp and clear image, no alteration of the content with time or easy content search. The KiSS DP-558 comes with an 80GB Hard Disk where the user can record TV programs (average of 34 hours depending quality on settings) or store up to 117 good quality DivX movies, easily accessible and downloadable on the Player's Hard Disk from a PC. The KiSS DP-558 also comes complete with the standard CD/MP3, Ogg Vorbis, DivX, XviD, CD-RW and DVD+-RW playback.
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If garden-variety DVD players haven't proved reason enough to give your VCR the boot, the DP-558 from Denmark-based KiSS (Keep it Simple Solutions) surely is. Not only will your movie rentals and storebought DVDs look incomparably better than videocassettes--especially when using the player's progressive-scan video output--but the DP-558 also lets you record TV programs, camcorder footage, and other audio/video content to its roomy, 80 GB hard-disk drive.
Different settings let you scale your image quality to balance the importance of the program with your remaining available disk space. You can store up to 34 hours or so of TV or video programming, depending quality on settings. But that's far from all the DP-558 offers.
It's also a DivX-certified networking DVD player. The device is capable of playing back--from optical media, from your computer, and from its own drive--DivX video, MP3 files, and JPEG digital-photo slideshows in a room of your choosing, whether den, living room, or bedroom. All you need for full networking ability is a Windows PC, a wired network connection with the player, and a television.
You can connect the DP-558 directly to the Internet via a broadband connection or through a network (LAN) with a PC whose media contents can be read using the supplied KiSS PC-Link software. Powered by the Sigma Designs EM8500 decoder chip, the player reads DVD-Video (PAL and NTSC) as well as DVD-RW and DVD+RW discs.
The DP-558's support for DivX (including versions 3.11, 4, and 5), ISO MPEG-4, and XviD video-compression formats gives you the ability download full-screen, full-motion videos from the Internet that look and sound close in quality to what you get from your television or DVD player. Audio compatibility extends to the open-source Ogg Vorbis format for music compression (slightly higher quality than MP3 for a same-sized file), and the WebRadio option offers access to thousands of Internet radio stations.
Apart from full-resolution AV content, the player's hard disk can alternately store up to 116 Internet-sourced compressed DivX films, somewhere on the order of 16,000 128 kbps MP3 music files, or about 200,000 JPEG image files. All these files are easily accessible through a user-friendly list displayed on the TV screen. You can even use the Ethernet connection to ferry your media between your PC and the DP-558.
When you plug the player in for the first time, a graphic interface prompts you to select language, video connection type, screen size, audio connection, and IP address, an easy five-step setup. To enjoy the player's networking abilities, you'll need to install and run the KiSS PC-Link software (PC only, Windows 98 or higher). With PC-Link, all you have to do is select the files and you want to view and they'll be routed to your DP-558 and on to your television for viewing in any connected location.
Whether or not your living room is currently home to an HDTV, the DP-558 stands ready to deliver the full potential of your uncompressed, commercial 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 uses both standard RCA component-video terminals as well as the French-developed SCART connection. The SCART output allows the player to channel video signals in a manner consonant with not only PAL (European) and NTSC (North American) video systems, but with RGB computer monitors as well (RGB adapter cables not included).
Other outputs include standard composite- and S-video connections, a coaxial digital-audio jack (for passing Dolby Digital and DTS surround signals to a compatible audio/video receiver), and a set of stereo analog RCA jacks. Inputs mirror the outputs: 1 each component-, composite-, S-video, and SCART terminals, together with 2 digital-audio ins and a set of stereo RCA analog inputs.
KiSS will continue to update the player's firmware; the updates will be available from the support section of the kiss-technology.com Web site.
What's in the Box
DVD player, remote control, remote batteries, CD-ROM with KiSS PC-Link software, a user's manual, stereo analog audio interconnect/composite-video cable, and an AC power cord.
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