So far the Customer Reviews on Amazon a very favorable for the Panasonic DVD-LA95 Portable DVD Player. With 22 5-star from a total of 39 and zero 1-star (as of Nov 8th 2010), that’s a good sign that this portable movie player pleases most.
So what does the Panasonic DVD 9-Inch Portable DVD Player do?
The DVD-LA95 offers both a portable DVD player and a sophisticated home-theater component. The player handles DVD-Video, high-resolution DVD-Audio, DVD-RAM playback and recordable and standard CDs, including MP3-encoded discs.
Its holds a massive, 9-inch widescreen (16:9) LCD screen and a built-in rechargeable battery which lasts with regards to 2.5 hours amongst each charge.
Designed to take full control of conventional and audio video DVD formats, the LA95 delivers the six-channel surround sound of the DVD-Audio music format.
The DVD-Audio offers very high-fidelity, approximately 192 kHz/24-bit sound, in both multichannel and stereo, and because the DVD-Audio signal is too high a solution for the digital converters in current surround receivers, the DVD-LA95 performs it is own decoding of DVD-Audio signals, passing high-resolution analog, not digital but audio to your surround receiver. As a result this means you’ll have to have an audio/video receiver with multichannel analog-audio inputs to be grateful for this feature.
The audio features include both DTS and Dolby Digital decoding with a 5.1 channel analog and digital-audio outputs, with both built-in stereo speakers and Dialogue Enhancer for DVD movie viewing. The modern Surround Sound (VSS) simulates surround effects from headphones or from any of the two speakers.
Other features on the Panasonic DVD LA-95 include high-speed smooth-motion scan in forward and reverse (up to 100 times normal speed), title/chapter search with marker function, skip forward/reverse, repeat mode, chapter preview, automati power off, and resume play.
As an added bonus to looking at your favored DVD movies and music discs, the DVD-LA95 likewise plays video recorded on DVD-RAMs. The vantage of this is that DVD-RAM lets you record high-quality MPEG-2 video on DVDs, providing fast info transmission, rewritable by up to 100,000 times and speedy random access to chapters.
Price: $198.95
Benefits and Features:
9-inch LCD screen: Provides for a Sleek, lightweight portable DVD-Video and DVD-Audio player.
Plays: DVD-R, DVD-RAM, CD, and recordable MP3 CDs.
Widescreen: 16:9 aspect ratio.
Battery Length: 2.5 hours battery life from included rechargeable battery.
Audio Stats: Multichannel analog and optical digital-audio outputs, built-in DVD-Audio, DTS, and Dolby Digital surround decoding, Dialogue Enhancer, VSS virtual surround heighten surround sound and stereo listening Improvements from DVD-LV75 to DVD.
LA-95: The fit and finish of the la-95 is much bettered over last year’s dvd-lv75.
Negatives:
Under the buyer reviews for this product, one “Mixed bag” Review stands out.
This is an splendid account of one users personal experience which ought to be read in full if you are mesmerized in buying this product. In short, the points listed were as follows:
a) 9-inch screen, though larger, is of poorer quality than the LV-75.
b) Images aren’t as sharp or as bright as older model’s 7-inch screen – Consumer notes that: “the older screen is genuinely and engineering science marvel.
c) LCD screen itself goes very dark when you try to view it from an open angle, leaving you with a littler observing radius – as opposed to older LV75.
Do we Recommend it?
As stated, with 22 5-star reviews from 39 with Zero 1-star and 4 2-star (as of Nov 8th 2010), what buyers have contributed to the reviews subsections potentially sets the tone that most users are finelooking happy with it’s performance.
If your looking for a for less and well valued Panasonic model though, then described as the “engineering marvel” – the Panasonic LV75 – may be more your cup of tea.
Great quality at a price and compatibility premium
RAM DVDs are great — on suitable players!!!