Sylvania DVL100C DVD Player

Sylvania DVL100C DVD Player
Manufacturer: Sylvania
Product Type: CE

Editorial Review:
Product Description
FUNAI manufactures high quality and fairly priced brands produced on the basis of advanced technology and efficient production systems.PRODUCT FEATURES: Plays DVD Video, CD, CD-RW, CD-R, and MP-3 Files; 39-Key Remote Control; Fluorescent Display with Dimmer; On-Screen Menu Display in English, French, and Spanish; Still-Frame, Slow Motion, and Frame Advance; Zoom 2x and 4x; Four-Step High Speed Scan Search (2x, 8x, 30x and 60x); Skip and Pause; Resume Play; Bookmark; Title/Sub-Title On/Off; Angle Change; Parental Lock (Similar to V-Chip); Screen-Saver; Repeat Play Capable (All, Title, Chapter/Track, or A-B); Program Play and Random Play (CD); Auto Power Off Capable.
Amazon.com Product Description
Sylvania's affordable DVL100C has high-end component-video outputs, built-in MP3 decoding, and a dual-laser pickup for compatibility with not only DVDs and CDs, but CD-Rs and CD-RWs as well. Top-of-the-line component-video outputs help minimize line scan and digital artifacts on compatible advanced televisions, while composite-video and S-video outputs bring compatibility with nearly any television.

A set of left/right analog-audio outputs channels 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 coaxial digital-audio output for direct connection to a full-featured audio-video receiver. If you don't have a surround receiver or six-channel speaker setup, you can still make every movie night the ultimate experience: SRS TruSurround simulates surround sound through two speakers (even the stereo speakers on your TV).

Other features include parental lock (similar to V-Chip), four-step high-speed scan search (2x, 8x, 30x, and 60x), resume play, bookmark, 2x and 4x zoom, Repeat play (all, title, chapter/track, or A-B), CD program play and random play, and a fluorescent display with dimmer. The player comes with a composite-video/stereo audio interconnect, an instruction manual, and a 39-key remote control.

Average customer rating: 3.5

Awesome notebook, but U need to do one thing first...
Junk - not for the power user
Beautiful
Solid Build, High Price

Sony VAIO VGN-FS850/W 15.4" Notebook PC (Intel Pentium M Processor 750, 512 MB RAM, 100 GB Hard Drive, DVD+R Dbl Layer/DVD+/-RW Drive)

Manufacturer: Sony IT
Product Group: Personal Computer
Binding: Personal Computers
ASIN: B000E0GIGQ

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<b>Includes: AC adapter, lithium-ion battery, Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition with Service Pack 2.</b> Sony VGN-FS850/W VAIO(R) Notebook PC - Powered by an Intel Pentium M Processor 750 (1.86 GHz), and 512MB of DDR2 Memory, this notebook can handle most, if not all, of your daily tasks. It even features a built-in 802.11b/g Wi-Fi wireless networking adapter. So you can surf the Internet and check e-mail from any one of a number of Wi-Fi Hot Spots around the world. 100GB EIDE Hard Drive Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900 with up to 128MB of shared video memory (memory is taken from the main system's RAM) Double Layer DVD Writer - supports Double Layer DVD+R, DVD-RW, & DVD+RW media Integrated 802.11b/g Wi-Fi Wireless Network Support

Customer Reviews:

Awesome notebook, but U need to do one thing first..........2006-08-15

Make sure you have Windows XP Pro (SP2) installation disk and do a CLEAN install of everything. The sony website has all the updated drivers.

Prior to doing this, I was about to return this notebook. I was having immense difficutly with my USB ports. Customer support was a TOTAL joke, they had no clue. In my anger and frustation, I wiped the hard drive and reinstalled everything. Now this notebook is a dream, one of the best I've had (fingers crossed).

The other reviewer indicated that he has re-installed his image drive 6 plus times. This will NOT fix your problem since an image of the original configuration is where the problem is. Simply wiping your hard drive and reinstalling the problem doesn't fix the problem. You need to do a clean install with drivers from the website....

Only other issue with this notebook is the integrated graphics...not too great, but I don't game on this notebook. Anyhow, do yourself a favor and get the FE series Dual Core with Nvidia Go 7600. Its an additional $300 but well worth it. If you do get the FE version, do your due diligence as I am recommending the aforementioned fix only for the FS 850P/W.

I would have given this 5 stars had it not been for the sony bloatware that I had to wipe of the harddrive....4.5 Stars.

Junk - not for the power user.......2006-06-29

I own two other Sony laptops the V505 and the GRX550 both of which I was inclined to upgrade Hard drives after reliability problems with this Sony VAIO VGN-FS850/W that I purchased new from CompUSA only a few months ago. Had I known I would have this many problems with the FS850 I never would have gone through this ordeal. I have had to reformat/reinstall software from scratch at least 6 times in the last two months. Hibernation corrupted, programs would not install as reliability as on the other two laptops. The Hard drive grinds forever on reboot, despite higher speed ratings than the other two laptops. I have had multiple blue screen crashes this month. Thank God we are using Acronis True image as backup, otherwise we would be days in reinstalling software. We've attempted several diagnosis checks on memory, motherboard, hard drive to no avail. Software compatible on the other two Vaio laptops is not always compatible with this Vaio. And we have the latest revisions.
Sorry for the layman's approach to this but a laptop with a 100 GB hard drive, 1.86 GHz, 504 RAM should be able to handle audio, video, business and Internet software.
Remember, the same software works on the older two laptops. We are using all the latest digitally signed drivers. This laptop is unreliable. Spend your hard earned money elsewhere.

Beautiful.......2006-06-06

I found this machine to be adequate, beautifully designed and moderately priced one thing though it should have been sold with a telephone line for the internet. and a complimentary rewritable DVD.

Solid Build, High Price.......2006-03-27

Before purchasing this computer on amazon, I drove an hour to the nearest Best Buy to see how their laptops compared in terms of build quality. Having just thrown out my old Dell Inspiron, a poorly-designed piece of junk with software and customer service to match, I resolved to make sure that my next purchase would last. At Best Buy, I discovered that the Sony XBR screen and screen hinges--one of which broke both on my old Dell and on a friend's Dell--were absolutely superior in quality to those of every other manufacturer. And, the overall design of the Sony was simply better thought-out and more attractive. While I sometimes regret having paid the high price for this Sony, I didn't feel, after checking out the other computers at Best Buy, that I really had any option. In addition to the relatively high price of this computer, another drawback is the lack of accompanying back-up discs or instructions on how to use the dozens of bundled programs. I would like to begin to understand these programs better, and to delete any that I might not ever use, but I just don't have the expertise to do so. In the final analysis, if you are a committed PC user, and you are in search of a laptop with near-Mac quality, I would argue that this computer is your best option.

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