Philipsnewdvd:Philips India :LAS VEGAS – Last year we reviewed a number of new portable DTV with no-name producers who did OK in our tests, but fell short in terms of battery life and resolution. That is why we are intrigued by the forthcoming PET749 Philips “, which combines a portable DVD player and DTV at $ 179.99 (list) unit with a higher resolution 800×480 display.Although it is not HDTV resolution, this value up to 480×234 pixels you see on many common handheld digital television appearing on Amazon and other sites (we reviewed Envizen Digital Duo Pro Box ED8850A). True, these units are usually in the $ 100 – $ 125 range, but we would be willing to pay more for a sharper picture. We got an early screen PET749 and were pretty impressed with the picture that we saw.
As for the battery, Philips says that you can get up to three hours of playback with a rechargeable internal battery. This is better than two hours, we usually see in these types of products, but it’s still not great.
Here’s a look at some key characteristics:
* Free-air reception of digital television
* 7-inch swivel LCD digital display, a 16:9 wide-screen (800×480 pixels)
* Compatible with DVD, DVD /-R, DVD /-RW, (S) VCD, CD
* DivX Certified for standard playback of DivX
* MP3-CD, CD and CD-RW
* JPEG viewer with picture disc
* Car adapter and remote control included
* On sale in March
* Recommended retail price: $ 179.99
It is worth noting that the PET749 is not intended for reception of DTV signals on the fly, which means that it will not work (for TV) in a moving car. If this is something that interests you, you’ll have to wait for mobile TV, for example, $ 249 LG DP570MH mobile digital television with DVD playback DVD, will hit the market later this year. But this is only the LG features 480×234 resolution.
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