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).
posted June 13th 2007 8:21PM
It's already in America. Best Buy, for one, carries it.
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.
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.
a UMPC can play dvd's? Im pretty sure thats false. The can playback video files, but not an actual dvd.
it looks good, wondering how much for this?
@ 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.
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.
The Japanese page mentions nothing of Divx.
http://www.ecat.sony.co.jp/visual/dvd/products/spec.cfm?PD=27534&KM=DVP-FX850
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
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!
I personally love macosx.com, beats the crap outta windows.com. Totally.
With the usb port, can you play content from you USB HD to the screen? What other formats does this play?
EL
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)
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???