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5 Reviews for Philips DCP850/05 8.5inch Portable DVD Player
Brilliant - 13 Mar 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful.
I very very very nearly bought the Shinco. It was in my basket and then I got cold feet. I wanted the Shinco because it said it was multiregion and this one didn't, and I'm fed up of ending up with DVDs I can't play or come out in black and white.
What changed my mind at the last minute was that there seemed to be a hack to make it multiregion. That being so, who wouldn't prefer a Philips to a Shinco? Although many people are happy with their Shincos, all of them will say that they can only get customer service from Amazon and they can't get a response from the UK distributor. In which case, if the machine goes wrong after two years, or you need parts, then you'll just have to throw it away.
Plus, frankly, the fact that some people say their Shinco has a lovely aluminium body, while others swear it is plastic, makes me suspect something rather odd is going on with whomever builds and supplies these things.
So I've just received the player, and am happy to report that it converted straight to multiregion, just as described in the forum below. Phew.
That done with, I'm now delighted to have such a high quality machine for such a reasonable price. It is white on the outside, and black on the insside and although the cover is plastic, it has a nice chunky solid feel to the whole thing.
I was surprised that ther really is no noise really when the disc is running or when it starts up, the buttons seem solid and the sound quality was suprisingly good for such tiny speakers. (You can't really expect too much from small speakers). And the unit was strong and well built. It feels like a quality piece of kit. The screen is good looking and I'm really glad of the extra inch and a half. I think 7 inches is just a bit too small.
The swivel screen is an added bonus, and I was surprised to find it could be swivelled right round and goes flat on top of the DVD unit.
The two headphone sockets are a great idea, the SDD slot will be very useful on holiday for photos and videos from the camera. Although I don't yet own an 80gb ipod video, for me having the ability to use one means that this machine will last longer than the DVD format, and means the unit can become much more like a personal media player in the long term, playing videos from an ipod instead of a DVD when nobody makes anything on DVD any more. In five years time, when DVD is almost extinct, an iPod video 80gb second hand will cost next to nothing and give this thing a new lease of life.
Having not ordered the Shinco, I can't really compare it. But the reason I had a slight innate preference for Philips is that one of its other models came out as a Which best buy in a recent review, and they looked at quite a few DVD players.
The only slight niggles are: the volume control is only on the unit, not the remote, and there is a slight lag between pressing buttons on the remote and something actually happening, oh and the remote is slightly cheap looking.
But these are really minor quibbles. For just over 100 quid, you can have a multiregion, 8.5 inch swivel screen DVD, with ipod video connectivity, and SSD slot and two headphone sockets...and it plays nearly anything you'd care to throw at it, plus has ability to change screen format for letterbox films. If you are willing to spend 100 quid on a DVD player, I can't see that there is better value at the moment.
Brilliant - and what a price!! - 13 Feb 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful.
I bought this player in January 2008 and it has performed brilliantly, both on battery or mains power. Although the white outer case does look cheap it does it's job of protecting the vital bits inside perfectly well.
My 80gb 5th Gen video ipod works without problem and the screen quality is great. I've also hooked it up to my tv and again the picture quality is still very good indeed.
For the price, it is an amazing good peice of kit - I'm sure you could spend three times as much and get something that's 1% better, but why would you??
Phillips personal DVD player, Some thing to show off with. - 03 Feb 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful.
I bought the the Phillps DCP850/05 for one main reason and that was that it had the iPod docking station (It charges up your iPod without having to connect it to your computer), it will take all sizes of ipod 30GB to 80GB (as long as they are the video ones 5th generation) the dvd player looks like a small laptop when closed up, with a white exterior, it has 2 headphone slots on the out side and a SD memory card slot as well, you can play you music videos from your iPod onto the screen, if you dont have an ipod the slot is filled with the really cool looking remote, that will control all of the features on the bit of kit, i would suggest that you buy a bag for it, i purchase a Phillips bag from Amazon and it comes with all of the straps to mount it in the car if so wanted,
One thing make sure you get the DCP850 and not the DCP750, as the 750 has a smaller screen and the screen does not swivel, overall a really good product and well worth the money...
Brilliant! - 06 Jan 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful.
This is a superb bit of kit, easily modified to be region free (just input a certain series of numbers on the remote) and is just fantastic to take in the car (and our campervan)
We used it OK with my 80gb 5th Gen ipod and it displayed the videos on the big screen in great quality. BUT it won't play the videos from my son's 80gb 'classic' ipod. (not sure why)
I would still heartily recommend it, especially at this price!
Fantastic buy... - 15 Dec 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful.
I've had my eye on this unit for ages but when I noticed the price drop from £168 to £115 last week I couldn't stop my finger from clicking on the "Add to Basket" button. I've had it for a week now and to be honest I'm hard pressed to find fault with it! The DVD playback is superb, the ability to plug your iPod in and watch TV shows and movies is just fantastic, and the SD memory card reader is useful too if you want to have a better look at the picture you've just taken on your camera. I can't get over the price ether, I noticed its now dropped by another fiva whilst the 7" version is still at £125??? Go figure???
There are only a few downsides:
1. Its white! Don't be fooled by the picture with its interior looking black and expecting it to go well with your black iPod! The exterior of the units is a naff looking white plastic.
2. I can't understand why the makers went to all the trouble of making this cool little remote control that fits nice a neat inside the iPod docking area when not in use and then skip out the volume control? Whats that all about? The only way you can turn the volume up or down is via a control on the unit. Doesn't that defeat 80% of the point of a remote control?
3. The SD Memory card although useful has a bit of a poor picture quality.
These are just tiny little niggles really. I'm made up with the unit which will come in so useful for my 3 year old on trips in the car down to the in-laws and flights abroad.