Toshiba in Japan announced the Portaro SD-P12DT [JP] today, a new portable DVD player. The main selling point of the device is the 12-inch LCD screen that features an LED backlight and 1,366×768 resolution. Sized at 342×73×326mm (weight: 2.8kg), the Portaro is available in black or white. → Read More
Yokohama-based electronics company Kumazaki-Aim has announced a “portable” LED video projector [JP] (size: 268×295×92mm, weight: 2.5kg) that won’t win any design awards but houses a DVD player. Buyers also get a screen (132×25×980mm) for their money. → Read More
This is what you get. You knew there was a good reason why that Durabrand DVD player only cost $30 at Walmart when the rest averaged $80. It’s because they can catch on fire, burn down your house, and kill your cats according to a recall. So far there have been 12 cases of the players overheating with five of them catching on fire and causing property damage. Think of the cats! The recall affects 1.5 million DVD players sold at Walmart from January 2006 to July 2009. Think hard. Is this the DVD player you bought for Grandma? → Read More
Toshiba Japan announced a new portable DVD player today [JP], the SD-P93DTW, which is equipped with a One-Seg digital TV tuner. The device is Japan-only at this point. But Toshiba sells the SDP93S in the US, which is essentially the same player minus the TV tuner (the tuner is useless outside Japan and Brazil anyway). And Americans have to pay a lot less for their player. → Read More
Don’t scoff at this, friend. There are still millions of citizens of this great nation who have not and will not switch to Blu-ray or HD DVD (it’s still around if you look hard enough). Therefore, I offer Amazon’s lightning deal for the next couple hours. I’d be quick about it, though. → Read More
Toshiba realizes their folly with HD DVD so they’re trying to make up for it with a wide variety of DVD players, portable DVD players and LCD TV/DVD combos. First up is the 22-inch widescreen LCD with 1680×1050 resolution and a contrast ratio of 1000:1. Response time is a blazing 5ms with HDMI and PC inputs as well as a thin chassis depth of 2.95-inches. It also supports WMA, MP3, JPEG and DiVX playback. The 19-inch model’s depth is a mere 2.64-inches and has the same specs. There’s also a white version. Yay! → Read More
DV-310 Product Name: DV-310 and DV-410V Description: Pioneer’s latest slim DVD players, DV-310 and DV-410v, are said to enhance the performance of the following media formats: DVD-R/RW, +R/RW, CD-R/RW, SVCD and VCD. Along with enhanced performance of said media formats, both players provide playback fo WMA and MP3 compressed audio files from discs or USB jump drives. They’re also DiVX certified. The two new DVD players use Pioneer’s PureCinema 2:3 progressive scan tech for unadulterated picture quality. In terms of audio, the players provide Dolby Digital and DTS decoding for 5.1 surround sound. The 410v has HDMI allowing for video upscaling to 1080p. Both players, however, have a USB port on the front for your added convenience. → Read More
Having traveled quite a bit in the last six months I really could have used a portable DVD player to drown out the roar of the engines, the terrible movie choices made by the airline, the crying baby two seats over, or the constant jibber-jabber from my girlfriend (just joking, M). While I haven’t had any flights during the review of the Philips DCP850, I have had a handful of train rides over 1.5 hours, including yesterday when an annoying douche sat in front of me and thought he was the next Great White Rapper. This definitely isn’t your run-of-the-mill portable DVD player either. It has a few tricks up its sleeve. → Read More
If your house is anything like the CrunchGear Mansion, it’s filled to the brim with gadgetry and electronica. And with all this newfangled convenience comes an equal dose of frustration. Like when your cell phone clock goes dead the second the A train pops underground. It’s almost enough to make you strap on your old Mickey Mouse wristwatch. So this got us to thinking — what are some common problems that ruin our gadget-loving experience, and how can we fix them? If any companies are interested in the following ideas, I’ll be standing by. → Read More
GadgetUniverse has an interesting product up. It’s a visor mounted DVD player with FM transmitter and apparently allows your bored passengers to enjoy red hot work-out porn from the comfort of your Impala’s bucket seats. At $299.95, it seems a little iffy but the 7-inch device can play DVDs, VCDs, and MP3 disks as well as SD cards. It also has a TV tuner and a touch screen. Pretty impressive list of features for such a slim device. Product Page → Read More
Just about every gadget out there has a plethora of accessories that let you change the appearance so you don’t get bored with them. Skins for Sidekicks, all sorts of cases and widgets for cell phones, modded cases for gaming consoles and yet the standard fixtures in our homes don’t have any sort of market or makers to spice up the entertainment center. This is where Zox from Japan steps in with the launch of the DS-DP105 DVD player that allows you to change the appearance of the unit by changing the cover depending on which one of your personalities is watching a movie. The Zox plays back DVD-R and CD-R/RW and drops this week in Japan for around $60. → Read More
Yesterday at the Philips press conference they announced two DVD players with iPod docks. The 7-inch DCP750 and 8-inch DCP850 boast swivel screens and support DivX playback on DVD+-R, DVD+-RW, and (S)VCD formats. Each player includes a car adapter to keep the rugrats quiet or feel free to drain the 2.5 hour battery watching all that pron I know you all have. Not to shabby for $150 and $200. 7 incher 8 incher → Read More
A company like ezGear should lay off the EZ a bit but we’ll let it slide for now. Its new ezPlay Portable DVD Player is pretty decent looking. It’s shaped like an old-school Sony Discman and plays DVD, MP4, VCD, CD, and MP3 discs. What sets it apart from all other portable DVD players though is that you can hook it up to ezGear’s ezVision Video iWear system. The ezVision system is basically a headset you wear that gives you “a 50” Wide Screen View, Ultra Light Weight at just 68-grams, Built in Stereo Audio, Eight (8) hour Battery Life, [and] Privacy.” Altogether it sounds like a decent package and is probably amazing during long airplane flights. You can pick up the ezPlay Portable DVD Player for $119.99 in stores and online. → Read More
