Sony's eight-inch DVP-FX850 portable DVD player

Sony's been known to toss out some fairly glitzy portable DVD players in the past, and it's keeping the tradition alive by cranking out the relatively sexy DVP-FX850. The clamshell player sports a "high-resolution" eight-inch widescreen LCD and 180-degree swivel, claims up to six hours of battery life, and plays nice with just about every flavor of DVD (yes, that includes the eight-centimeter variety) you can think of. Moreover, users will be happy to see DivX support tacked on, an AV input / output, twin headphone jacks, digital audio output, a 12-bit / 108MHz DAC, and a worldwide power supply. Notably, Sony also tossed in a USB port for loading up music and photos whilst on the go, and even includes a slim wireless remote for handling the controls from afar. Look for this kid-pleasing gizmo to land sometime next month (and hopefully in America).

[Mr Satyre @ Jun 13th 2007 8:57PM]

It's already in America. Best Buy, for one, carries it.

[Dixonij @ Jun 13th 2007 9:32PM]

Actually, I think the one that your are thinking of is model number DVP-FX810. I currently am watching Goldeneye on my FX810 and if they are adding Divx support to the new model I'd be extremely tempted to eBay my old one for the new one.

[Killbot @ Jun 13th 2007 9:03PM]

I think at this point portable dvd players should be phased out and replaced by more affordable UMPCs. UMPCs and laptops can already play dvds.

[gibber9583 @ Jun 13th 2007 9:32PM]

a UMPC can play dvd's? Im pretty sure thats false. The can playback video files, but not an actual dvd.

[Paul @ Jun 13th 2007 9:47PM]

@ Big

Sony is a large company, not every part of the company works on games. While one part works on games, the other parts work on something else.

Portable DVD Players are pretty useless, you can buy a $500 laptop that can play DVDs and do more than these. It may cost more, but you are getting a better deal.

[Austin Kaak @ Jun 14th 2007 12:02AM]

No, a $500 laptop is going to weigh 5 times as much, have less battery life, take up more space in your bag, and take longer to start up.

[myownswordsman @ Jun 13th 2007 9:54PM]

it looks good, wondering how much for this?

[AP @ Jun 14th 2007 12:31AM]

The Japanese page mentions nothing of Divx.
http://www.ecat.sony.co.jp/visual/dvd/products/spec.cfm?PD=27534&KM=DVP-FX850

[france.justin @ Jun 14th 2007 7:45AM]

Luckily the European link provided does.

Also luckyy: Australia gets alot of the Euro gear, even if it bypasses the states.
Sometimes it's good to be behind the .au

[Jesus @ Jun 14th 2007 6:09AM]

Now if it had a decent keyboard and could run Linux (something like ubuntu.com or opensuse.org) then it would be worth writing about!

[france.justin @ Jun 14th 2007 7:45AM]

I personally love macosx.com, beats the crap outta windows.com. Totally.

[elmeng @ Jun 14th 2007 12:17PM]

With the usb port, can you play content from you USB HD to the screen? What other formats does this play?

EL

[Drumr @ Jun 18th 2007 12:55PM]

I was looking at the sony one at a Fry's Electronics 2 days ago. But the guy recomended the Panasonic 820 or something... it has 12 hours battery life, and he also said that since this thing is a sony... basically it's a vampire (hates sunlight)

[winai @ Jul 5th 2007 4:34AM]

It is good system but it is not all zone
I have difficulty in watching some DVD movie
This is terrible!!
Can anyone suggest how to make it all zone???