Average customer rating:
- As Compared With the LS-82...
- Perfect portable (but without a remote)
- Great lightweight winner!
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Panasonic DVD-LS850 Portable DVD Player with 8.5" Diagonal Widescreen LCD - Deluxe Version includes Carry Case, Car Headrest Bracket, DC Adapter & 6 -Hour Battery
Manufacturer: Panasonic
ProductGroup: CE
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Product Features:
- Multi-Angle Viewing with 8.5" widescreen (aspect 16:9) LCD display
- Up to 6-Hour Playback Time with included rechargeable battery
- Built-in Stereo Speaker - LCD Mode
- Multi-Format Playback: DVD-Video, DVD-RAM, DVD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-R (Dual Layer), +R, +R (Double Layer), +RW, CD, CD-R/RW, HighMAT [Level 2], MP3, WMA, JPEG, MPEG and DivX®8
ASIN: B000QV9T6Y
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Product Description
Portable DVD Player with 8.5" Diagonal Widescreen LCD, Multi-Format Playback, Multi-Angle Viewing, Car Headrest Bracket, Car DC Adaptor and Carrying Case.....The large 8.5" widescreen display pivots for multi-angle viewing so you can adjust the position for optimum comfort and image quality. You can also adjust the screen brightness to get the best view of your DVDs in all kinds of light conditions. You get beautiful images while watching movies on a dimly lit airplane, or when you're relaxing in the sun at a resort or other outdoor spot.
Customer Reviews:
As Compared With the LS-82..........2007-12-07
The LS-82 model's battery is rated for a longer battery life than the LS-850's. As compared with the LS-82 model, this one comes with a carrying case, and with the CGR-LH711 battery. This model's battery is a 2250 mAh battery, wheras the battery that comes with the LS-82 model is the CGR-LH712, which is a 4500 mAh battery. If you want a bargain and want the carrying case, then fine go for the LS-850. But buyer's should take note of the differences in battery capacity between this model and the LS-82.
Perfect portable (but without a remote).......2007-06-22
I agree completely with the earlier reviewer. This piece is solid, well designed, does what it does perfectly, unlike some other ones I've tried that feels like a awkardly shrunk version of a much bigger player with the buttons randomly assigned to places just for the sake of being small. The volumn is adequate, the controls are clear and convenient. Most of all, the screen is of high contrast and saturate color, a big plus for the plus.
2 minor minus points:
a. No remote. The REMOTE can be VERY USEFUL when the unite is mounted on the head rest in a car. But Costco's package doesn't contain one.
b. Change settings (subtitle, time setting) requires go through the menu system, which is a big problem when mounted. To be fair, it is very easy to mount/unmount the unit from the head rest. But still, it is a unnecessary hassle if only a remote control is available.
All in all, highly recommended.
Great lightweight winner!.......2007-05-25
I have recently jumped into the portable DVD player bandwagon, to make my 1-hour-plus-each-way train ride a little more pleasurable. I started off with a lot of research, and ended up with a Philips 8.5" player - 6 hours battery life, and a screen that washes out the competition (mostly from Sony).
I ordered online, after going through the specs from multiple websites, and making sure that looks perfect. The product arrives - and guess what I missed in my multiple weeks of research - the battery weighs an additional 1.5 lbs, and sticks out significantly from the pack. So much for the pleasurable commute - lugging a close to 4lb DVD player. Might as well have taken my Thinkpad along.
Luckily (or un-), the product stopped working after only 2 weeks of use - and I went through a complete return adn refund. My next stop - the Panasonic here.
Out of the box, it looked great - multiple viewing angles, no hidden heavyweight batteries (product weights 1050 g / 2lb 5 oz with batteries, as per my kitchen scale), and the battery goes into the hinge - like some Sony laptops - a big plus.
The flipside is that the 6 hour battery is at the minimum brightness and headphones on - which means if you choose anything other than 'moonlight' as your brightness preference (there's daylight - the brightest, which I like the most, naturally - and also a user-defined setting of brightness and contrast) the nattery will last less. Frankly, all I need it for is one full length movie, maybe 2 - so I am happy so far with the battery life - it's not going to be less than 3.5 hours anyway.
Battery life apart, everything - I repeat, everything - in this is better than the Philips. My purchase from Costco came with a carrying case - it's possible that this is not a standard accessory - but the Amazon listing has this as well. The case is on the bigger side, but rather nice - well padded, with a main zipper to store the player and a side compartment to hold 4 DVDs, some cables, etc. As for the box, here's what's in it - the player and the battery pack, AC adapter, car lighter adapter, a mount kit for placing the player on the back of a car headrest, and AV cables. Enough to get you started. This takes 12V DC input, so the car adapter is pretty straightforward - the Philips used a weird 10.5 volts (IIRC).
The Philips also had a super minimalistic design - which meant you had to use the remote to do fast forwards, since there was no FF key on the unit. This saves you the pain. The buttons are cleanly, clearly and conveniently located in the front of the unit.
Another big win over the Philips - disk resume. I watch about half of a movie during my morning commute, and need to resume from where I left off in the evening - this is easy on this. Just press play.
Next win - the on/off button. Philips had this on the side - with the big heavy battery pack on, a brush on the side of my messenger bag could flip this switch - which meant when I finally sat down to watch my movie, the battery was dead. Panasonic has this shielded by the clamshell design - much better. Plus, the off button (same as stop, press longer) fades out the screen gently and switches the player off - a nice touch.
Yet another plus - noice level. The Philips was positively noisy - people sitting next to you could easily hear the loud whirring of the DVD, unless you took the headphones off, so the soundtrack could distract them. Not so on this one.
As far as the screen is concerned - they are both equally good - the Panasonic is a little tighter, as the player is roughly 16x9 in dimension, while the Philips has a little more blank space around the frame, since the player is a little off the 16x9. In any case, it's a close call.
Overall, I'm glad the Philips died, and this came out right on time. Panasonic was out with similarly designed DVD players way earlier than the rest of the market - but they then carried a $400 price tag and a 2 hour battery life. I am really glad they moved things around, while still keeping them light enough to actually be able to carry them around.
Product Description
Share your pictures, videos, music, files and even printer in your home or office without needing to turn your computer on with the Western Digital Essential NetCenter Network Hard Drive. With the NetCenter you can Centralize all your and share all your data, connect a printer to the network, create password-protected folders, back up files, or even connect to another external hard drive. Simply plug in the drives, run the wizard, use WD's EasyLink utility software to set up NetCenter and you're got yourself a network. You can connect a desktop PC, Macintosh, or laptop via wired or wireless. Share a network printer without needing another computer on. The WDXE1600JBN model has a 160 GB capacity. Nominal Latency 4.20 ms Average Read Seek Time 8.9 ms Track-To-Track Seek Time 2.0 ms (average) Capacity 160 GB Interface Ethernet Actuator Type Rotary Voice Coil Environmental Specifications - Operating Temperature 41 degrees F to 104 degrees F, Non-operating Temperatures -4 degrees F to 149 degrees F Electrical Specifications - AC Input Voltage 100-240 VAC, AC Input Frequency 50-60 Hz, AC Input Current 0.6A max (RMS) Backup in real time by setting up a connected drive to act as a mirror to the NetCenter.
Customer Reviews:
Fabulous drive.......2007-09-17
I've had this drive for over 6 months and it's been FABULOUS! I've attached my Canon USB printer to it and it works great. Setup was fast and easy and the drive operates cool and fast! Sharing the printer is just like sharing any other network resouce, but since I never turn the WD drive or my wireless router off, the shared drive and my printer are always available from any computer on my LAN.
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Wonderfully easy.......2007-05-22
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WDXE1600JBN works good, even easier than expected.......2007-01-03
I bought a Western Digital WDXE1600JBN 160GB Net Center External Hard Drive several weeks ago and it is a breeze to use. I have since added two more computers to my home network and installing the provided software was not even necessary - the folders i had previously created on the WDXE1600JBN automatically appeared under My Network Places. File transfers to and from the drive itself are fast enough for me to believe that the speed is limited to the capabilities of my in-home wireless network, not the drive. The original reason for getting the drive was to serve as a backup and transfer device for data I had on two Win98SE machines, but using it has been so easy it is now used for file sharing across all machines. Even the wife and kid have their own share folders they can get to from anywhere!
Easy Network Access.......2006-08-16
The claim of cool operation is true. I've had the drive for 2 weeks now, have never turned it off and it remains cool to the touch unlike a lot of external USB drives. I haven't tried to connect a printer off of it yet but that's next.
The drive is not lightning fast (didn't expect it to be) since it's competing for network resources with your other network devices but performance is acceptible. I have 4 PCs. The setup was as fast as connecting the drive to the network, powering it up and installing the software on each PC. So pleased with this product, I'm ordering a 250GB version as well. 4 stars due to speed limitations
Super Quiet, Fast Setup, Wants to Network, Fabulous Hard Drive.......2006-01-03
I have five computers (2 wifi), printers, Tivo on my network. Setup took seconds; I've added an external drive (not netcenter) to it thru the USB port in no time, and even that drive networks! Access photos video music from any machine and the Tivo Series 2- Listen to music with your surround sound system using the network drive! I don't think you can run it just on a computer thru the USB though, it has to go thru the router (WiFi is fine) using ethernet cable (provided) and then it appears in windows as a network drive after you run the cd setup on that computer (it's very simple). It is fast enough for video, and I have not had any speed problems. Very highly recommend!
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