Pioneer DV-600-AV-S DVD Player with HDMI Output and USB Host

Average customer rating:
Pioneer DV-600-AV-S DVD Player with HDMI Output and USB Host - Silver

Manufacturer: Pioneer
ProductGroup: CE

All | DVD Players & Recorders | Audio & Video | Categories | Electronics
Product Features:

DivX Video Playback

DVD Audio Decoder

SACD Multi Decoder

DivX Profile Type Home Theater

Advanced Disc Navigator with moving thumbnails

ASIN: B000YKGZ3W

Product Description

Play your complete movie and music collection with just one player. The Pioneer DV-600-AV-S DVD Player is ultra-slim and plays multi-formats including DVD Audio and SACD. You can play content from your USB memory stick, audio player, or enjoy other compressed movies and music formats that you have downloaded from the web. This player is also DivX Ultra certified so you can enjoy the highest quality possible from compressed files. The HDMI output with 1080p upscaling ensures that what you see is of the highest possible quality, regardless of the source. In addition, the 600AV has Virtual Surround Sound, which enables radio or TV programs that are broadcast in mono or stereo to be played back in full 5.1-channel surround sound. 192 kHz/24-bit D/A Converter Built-in Dolby Digital Decoder (5.1 channel) Built-in DTS Decoder DSP Modes - Rock, Pop, Live, Dance, Techno, Classic, Soft, Off And Default Dynamic Range Control Virtual Surround Bass Management Delay Adjustment Total Harmonic Distortion - 0.0023 % Frequency Response - 4 - 44 Hz Signal-to-Noise Ratio - 115 dB Dynamic Range - 100 dB PureCinema Progressive Scan - PAL/NTSC Video Signal D/A Converter - 108MHz/12-bit I/P Simultaneous Output Video Adjust Remote Control Unit Auto Power-Off Playback Formats - DVD-Video, DVD-R/-RW, DL-R/-RW, DVD+R/+RW, DL+R/+RW, SVCD, VCD, CD, CD-R/RW, DVD-Audio, SACD, MP3, WMA, MPEG4 AAC, JPEG Playback, JPEG + MP3/WMA simultaneous Play Input Terminals - 1x USB host (front-in) Output Terminals - 1x HDMI out, 1x USB host (front-in), 1x Euro-SCART, 1x Component out, 1x S-Video out, 1x Coaxial out, and 1x Optical out Dimensions - Width 420mm x Height 49.5mm x Depth 215.5mm Weight - 1.8 kg This version does not carry a Pioneer USA Warranty

Product Description

73-120-0000

Average customer rating:

Don't waste your money

I can't wait to return these phones

Does a great job

The designers did not grok this product.

Almost

Philips CD4452B/37 DECT 6.0 Dual Phone Bundle

Manufacturer: Philips
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

Cordless Telephones | Telephones | Office Electronics | Categories | Electronics | 900 MHz - Analog | 900 MHz - Digital | 900 MHz - DSS | Corded-Cordless Combos | Expandable Multi-Handset | Extra Handset Included | Kids' | Multi-Line | Speakerphones | With Answering Device | With Caller ID
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Product Features:

DECT 6.0 1.9 GHz Frequency Dual Phone Bundle

High Def Voice, Virtually Interference Free, Crystal Clear Sound Technology

Answering Machine w/Recording Time of Up to 15 minutes

Multi Handset Capability, Up to 5 Handsets

2.96 Lbs (WxLxH) 4.2" x 10.4" x 7.3"

ASIN: B000RQ95MQ

Product Description

With voice clarity as clear as a face-to-face conversation, the CD4 series puts the emotion back into a call. HD sound brings you and your feelings closer to your friends and family. Thanks to an advanced digital technology, calls are undisturbed by interferences from other devices. Handsfree mode uses a built-in loud speaker to amplify the voice of the caller, allowing you to speak and listen during a call without holding the phone to your ear. This is especially useful if you want to share the call with others or take notes during a call. The unique acoustic design provides a high-quality, rich communication experience. Enjoy high quality conversation, with a level of clarity rarely heard before. Thanks to a high-quality speaker and to a real acoustic chamber, the audio spectrum reaches far beyond what's normally heard on a telephone. Battery charging indication Call Management - Call Waiting, Caller ID, Conference Call, Explicit Call Transfer, and Microphone mute Signal strength indication Speakerphone-Talk handsfree Antenna - Integrated on base, Integrated on handset Compatible - GAP Dialing - Tone, Pulse Plug & Play Answering machine Recording time capacity - Up to 15-minutes Call log entries - 50 Phonebook - 100 names and numbers Battery - 750 mAh AAA NiMH Standby time - Up to 150 hours Talk time - Up to 12 hours Base dimensions - 116 x 110 x 81 mm Handset dimensions - 46 x 26 x 160 mm

Customer Reviews:

Don't waste your money.......2007-12-15

We bought this product with a hopeful attitude. Once we set it up, I was pushing away a nagging feeling that this might be a mistake. We decided to give a day or two...First, let me say that the rings made me feel like a cat hanging from the ceiling. There was no happy medium between the old style of rings and the new digitized selections. Accessing the call log was difficult and everytime a new call came in there was an annoying red light that would flash. I got so frustrated with the phones that we packed them up and sent them back...phones should not be so complicated to use! We are going to try the Siemens 6.0 instead...

I can't wait to return these phones.......2007-12-13

I have had this system for approximately 2 weeks. I purchased them to replace a Uniden system that I have for 5 years. Unfortunately cost of replacing batteries for Uniden exceeded cost of new system so I purchased the Philips phones.

On the positive side the system uses standard AA rechargable batteries unlike the Uniden system that required expensive, difficult to find & unreliable specialty batteries.

That's about the only positive thing. Design of phone is attractive however they feel cheaply made, are very light and have poor ergonomics. Flash/call waiting feature rarely works. Sound quality is very poor. You do not hear your own voice from the receiver when speaking which is disconcerting. Functions are not intuitive.

My family rarely agrees about anything however they universally dislke these phones. We cant't wait to get rid of them.

Does a great job.......2007-12-11

Rate: 4.0

Philips CD4454 currently featured at ' c o s t c o . c o m '
$79 + tax + shipping ($95) through 12/31/07
1 base/answering machine w/handset + 3 satellite handsets = 4 handsets (black)

PROs:
First of all, let me say the ergonomic design of the CD445X series is wonderful; handsome, refined, and slim w/great weight/balance characteristics. It fits very well into one's hand. Contrary to the colour appearance displayed on Amazon (grey) the units are actually 'black'.

Range is very good with crystal clear audio. DECT 6.0 is the global standard...

Audio codec: G.726 (digital encryption, not easy to ease-drop)
Net bit rate: 32 kbit/s
Frequency: 1880-1900 MHz in Europe, 1920-1930MHz in the US
Carriers: 10 (1,728 kHz spacing) in Europe, 5 (1,728 kHz spacing) in the US
Time slots: 2 x 12 (up and down stream)
Channel allocation: dynamic
Average transmission power: 10 mW (250 mW peak) in Europe, 4 mW (100 mW peak) in the US

Languages for menus and predefined out going messages ( North American model ): English, Español, and Français.

The 'speaker phone' function on each of the units ( phones ) indeed produces high quality sound (HD as Philips puts it), but when listening to a conversation through the conventional method, the phone's ear piece, the sound is the typical flat quality w/a slight increase in dynamics.

CONs:
'Contrast levels' of the display -- it has low dynamic contrast ratio making it a bit difficult to read, for some. If you're far-sighted (hyperopia), like myself, but manage to be able to read a phone display w/some difficulty w/o your glasses, as I do, you'll likely find yourself unable to see any display data/identity (caller ID). [ My theory: the character fonts are displayed in a semi dark blue. When you combine the text w/bright blue back lighting, the overall affect produces a seemingly unavoidable washout. The text is still there -- just not as vivid as it could be. Even w/adjusting contrast ratios (1-5) to 5, it appears to make little impact on text. ]

As mentioned by previous reviewers, the menu system is a little bit archaic but nothing you can't overcome.

I'll keep it... for now.

Hope this has been helpful.

The designers did not grok this product........2007-10-29

To begin with the sound quality of this phone is fine. I guess some might consider that to be the most important quality of a wireless phone. I have a lot of "wireless" traffic in my home -- a separate wireless G and a separate wireless N network, as well as a totally separate phone system also running on DECT 6.0. I bought this phone specifically because it was DECT 6.0, but I honestly don't find it any much "clearer" in quality than the old 5.whatever gigahertz phone that this replaced.

One particularly nice feature of this phone is that it uses standard triple A rechargeable batteries. The previous phone system that this replaced was a Uniden, and the hassle of finding the specific right batteries to replace in the handsets units was way too much trouble. On top of that, the price point of the replacement batteries were such that by adding about another $50, I was able to just buy another new phone system. Granted, that was replacing 3 batteries in a Uniden 3 phone system versus buying this unit and getting only 2 handsets. However, a couple of days after I bought this unit, there was a pretty significant price drop and now for about $10 more than what I paid, I could have bought this exact same Philips unit, but with 3 instead of 2 handsets.

Now the problems with the unit. This unit was clearly designed by engineers without some sort of human interface guidelines to direct them. As a user, there are certain things that I expect to be in certain places and certain things that I expect to be able to do with a minimum number of keystrokes. This unit lacks certain features that I have become accustomed to in other phones and sometimes just makes simple tasks overly complex because of the cumbersome menu structure the phone uses.

A couple of quirks? For example, when a person calls in with caller ID, the screen alternates between the person's name and the person's phone number. The person's name and the person's phone number are not displayed on the screen at the same time. I can live with that. However, when displaying the person's name, only the first line of the two line display is utilized. The second line isn't used. So you end up getting the first person's name "chopped" at the end of the first line and a completely blank second line. It would seem that they could use both lines and perhaps have the first name on the top line and the last name on the bottom line.

Next, when you get a missed call a little light flashes on the handset. In order to see who called you have to press the "CID" button, then click "OK" for the call list. You then see the name of the person who called, the time and date that they called. Now I would like to be able to delete this caller from this point with a single press of a button. Instead, I have to click "OK", press the scroll button down, to go from "Copy to Phonebook" to "Delete" and then click "OK" again. It's taken me 3 button presses just to delete a caller ID entry. Now I can do this for every caller entry or I can just press down each time to view each caller entry, then press "OK" and then press down TWICE to get to "Delete All" and then press "OK" and then press "OK" again when the screen prompts me with "Delete All?" ... You see what I mean?!?!?

Another quirk that I have, and this is a minor quirk that might not apply to many people, is that you can't assign specific ring tones to specific callers. I use to be able to do this with the old Uniden unit that I had. On this phone you have three caller groups that you can assign specific ring tones to. A phone book entry tagged within a specific caller group will play the specific ring tone of the caller group. The problem is that I might want a specific ring tone for my wife's cell phone. Unless I put her into a caller group without anyone else, I won't be able to get a unique ring tone when she calls. Using it this way limits me to only having 3 specific ring tones. It would be nice if I could have specific caller groups AND the ability to assign specific ring tones to individual phone book entries.

So in summary, it's usability issues like this that prevent me from giving this phone system a higher score. Ideally I would like to give it a 3.5 star rating because, as I previously said at the beginning of this review, it works well when you just look at the clarity of it as a phone. There would be no point in having the best user interface designed phone, but really crappy sound quality. But then again, having a clear phone with a really cumbersome interface does get tiring to use.

Almost.......2007-10-22

I almost kept this phone. Looks nice, sound was fine, some slight distortion of some voice infections.
I wanted a phone that showed caller id on caller waiting calls. Advertised as being such, but after calling Phillips I was told the second call is not displayed.
I did like the speaker in the hand set function, as I'm getting hard of hearing, and this feature makes it loud, but everyone can hear my phone call. Over all a decent phone.

Product Description

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Average customer rating:
2port Miniview Compact KVM Switch 2cpu/1 Monitor/keyb/mouse

Manufacturer: APC
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

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Product Features:

Number of Computers: 2

Number of Users: 1 x Local User

Video Signals: MultiSync /VGA /SVGA

User/Console Ports: 1 x 15-pin D-Sub (HD-15) Female VGA /1 x 6-pin mini-DIN (PS/2) Female Mouse /1 x 6-pin mini-DIN (PS/2) Female Keyboard

Computer Ports: 2 x 15-pin HD-15 Female Video /2 x 6-pin mini-DIN (PS/2) Female Mouse /2 x 6-pin mini-DIN (PS/2) Female Keyboard

ASIN: B00006B788

Product Description

In the E-world where businesses can't stop and downtime is measured in dollars, American Power Conversion (APC) provides protection against some of the leading causes of downtime, data loss and hardware damage: power problems and temperature. As a global leader in power availability solutions, APC sets the standard in its industry for quality, innovation and support. Its comprehensive AC and DC power solutions, which are designed for both home and corporate environments, improve the manageability, availability and performance of sensitive electronic, network, communications and industrial equipment of all sizes.Known for its quality, innovation and industry leading service and support, APC has perhaps the longest list of accolades in its industry. Not satisfied with this, APC is working diligently to achieve its corporate mission of creating delighted customers by improving the manageability, availability and performance of information and communication systems through the rapid delivery of innovative solutions to real customer problems.

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