Venturer 7 Inch Portable DVD Player with Dual Screens

Venturer 7 Inch Portable DVD Player with Dual Screens
Manufacturer: Venturer
Product Type: CE

Average customer rating: 4.0

Almost perfect

Philips WACS700 Wireless Audio System

Manufacturer: Philips
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B000EGJXAI

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Digital Music Servers

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Product Description

40GB Wireless Music Center

From the Manufacturer

Class `D' Digital Amplifier takes an analog signal, converts it into a digital signal and then amplifies the signal digitally. The signal then enters a demodulation filter to give the final output. The amplified digital output delivers all the advantages of digital audio, including improved sound quality. In addition, Class `D' Digital Amplifier has greater than 90% efficiency compared to traditional AB amplifiers. This high efficiency translates into a powerful amplifier with a small footprint.</p>

Be your own DJ at your home party and simultaneously broadcast your favorite dance music from the Wireless Audio Center to all Wireless Audio Stations installed in various parts of your home. Great for parties!</p>

Different family members in five different rooms can access & listen to their own choice of music from the Wireless Audio Center at the same time.</p>

The 40GB hard disk offers a very large capacity for you to store your digital music files. It easily holds up to 750 CDs of your music collection, and the recording speed is so fast that you can basically play and rip a particular song almost at the same time.</p>

With wireless streaming, you do not have to wait to download and store a large file on your audio device before listening to your favorite songs. Instead, the music is sent in a continuous stream and is played as it arrives to up to 5 music stations at the same time. Your music can now follows you everywhere in your home.</p>

With Philips 2- way remote control, you can now navigate through hundreds of songs easily with the one simple press of the remote control.. Displaying six lines info listed according to playlist, album, artist, genre or track, this intuitive navigation offers speedy yet simple scrolling through hundreds of files. It allows one handed operation and guarantees a unique user experience.</p>

No more searching through hundreds of your CDs to find your favorite track by a particular artist. With the initutive User Interface built-in the Philips Wireless Audio Center, you can now have almost instantaneous and direct access to your stored digital music collection on the hard disk (up to 750 CDs) and go straight to the music you want to listen to, listed by Artist, Album, Playlist, Genre or Tracks.</p> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign=top align=left><B>Other standard features include:</B><BR> <UL> <LI class=bullet>2-way Remote Control for user friendly navigation. <LI class=bullet>Music Broadcast for simultaneous playback to all stations. <LI class=bullet>Multiple user access streams to up to 5 stations streaming. <LI class=bullet>Class `D' Digital Amplifier for quality sound performance. </LI></UL></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

Customer Reviews:

Almost perfect.......2006-04-06

The idea of having a digital center which can be accessed (and played) from any room of the house, with no wires and great sound performance has arrived. This is a great product, its easy and very fast to set up (for dummies, even). I have a laptop pc (Toshiba satellite, 2GH PIVm, 512 RAM) and the communication between the two works great through the ethernet cable (no WIFI so no test there).
The remote control is awesomme. It lets you do everything from it. Wish the other one was like the main one. The station remote control is a bit useless since you can't see what you are doing (if you are far from the station) The good thing is you can use the main remote control with both the station and the central unit.
For being the first product like this on the market is a very good attempt... you can see they worked most of the major flaws they would have tripped over if they had developed it quickly or sloppy...

...but now, what they didn't do and wish they had, so the product would have been absolutely perfect.

1. When broadcasting you can't select the next song to be played. Broadcasting plays continously unit the current playlist is over... you can't even skip to the next song, you must wait unitl it's over if you want to listen to the next song and maintain the broadcasting. Of course, you can always stop (by pressing the stop button) choose the next song and begin broadcasting again, but that brings in a 10 second delay of silence until music begins poping out of the center and station units... which is not cool if in the middle of a party. MAJOR constraint.

2. Stations should hace a regular (composite) line out, in order to hook stations to an amplifier or bigger speakers... or increase the station's speaker power.

3. Should be able to broadcast the cd being played on the center unit.

4. Faster menu navigation would be greatly appreciated. IPOD solved this smartly with its navigation solution. Wish Philips had copied it.

5. The display flickers a bit.. only had the system for a week... I worry the display doesn't last long...

6. The speakers of the central unit must be removable. Wireless conectivity with the central unit would fit with the product whole idea, and would make the whole product incredibly more atractive.

7. I would have traded the ethernet connection with the PC for a USB 2.0 or Firewire (even better).. so, laptops with no WIFI can have its ethernet free for internet.

8. Wish it accessed the internet directly for CDDB information.

Other than these 8 points, the system works great... The "follow me" works perfectly. The transmission has never failed and it seems to cover a great area.

Hope the guys in R&D at Philips take these comments anduse for next generation wireless music centers.

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