So far, Customer Reviews on Amazon are very favorable for the Panasonic DVD-LA95 Portable DVD Player. With 22 5 stars out of 39 total and zero 1 stars (as of November 8, 2010), it’s a good sign that this portable movie player is the most liked.
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 standard and recordable CDs, including MP3-encoded discs.
It has a huge 9-inch (16:9) widescreen LCD screen and a built-in rechargeable battery that lasts approximately 2.5 hours between charges.
Designed to take full control of traditional DVD and A/V formats, the LA95 delivers the six-channel surround sound of the DVD-Audio music format.
DVD-Audio delivers very high-fidelity sound, approximately 192 kHz/24-bit, in both multi-channel and stereo, and since the DVD-Audio signal is too high-resolution for the digital converters in surround sound receivers Today, the DVD-LA95 does its own decoding of DVD-Audio signals, passing high-resolution analog audio, not digital, but to your surround sound receiver. As a result, this means that you’ll need to have an A/V receiver with multi-channel analog audio inputs to appreciate this feature.
Audio features include DTS and Dolby Digital decoding with 5.1 channel digital and analog audio outputs, with built-in stereo speakers and Dialogue Enhancer for watching DVD movies. Advanced Surround Sound (VSS) simulates the surround effects of headphones or any two speakers.
Other features of the Panasonic DVD LA-95 include high-speed smooth motion scanning forward and backward (up to 100 times normal speed), title/chapter search with bookmark function, skip forward/backward, repeat, chapter preview, auto power off and resume play.
As an added bonus for watching your favorite DVD movies and music discs, the DVD-LA95 also plays videos recorded on DVD-RAM. The advantage of this is that DVD-RAM allows you to burn high-quality MPEG-2 video to DVD, offering fast data transmission, rewritable up to 100,000 times, and fast random access to chapters.
Price: $198.95
Benefits and features:
9-inch LCD screen: Provides a stylish, lightweight, portable DVD-Video and DVD-Audio player.
Theater plays: Recordable DVD-R, DVD-RAM, CD and MP3 CD.
Wide screen: Aspect ratio 16:9.
Battery length: 2.5 hours of battery life with the included rechargeable battery.
Audio Statistics: Multi-channel analog and optical digital audio outputs, built-in DVD-Audio, DTS and Dolby Digital surround sound decoding, Dialogue Enhancer, VSS virtual surround sound enhance surround sound and stereo listening Enhancements from DVD-LV75 to DVD.
LA-95: The fit and finish of the la-95 is much improved over last year’s dvd-lv75.
Negatives:
Beneath the consumer reviews for this product, a “Mixed bag” review stands out.
This is an excellent account of one user’s personal experience that should be read in its entirety if you are interested in purchasing this product. In summary, the points listed were as follows:
a) The 9-inch screen, although larger, is of poorer quality than that of the LV-75.
b) Images are not as sharp or as bright as the previous model’s 7-inch screen: Consumer notes: “The previous screen is truly an engineering marvel.
c) The LCD screen goes very dark when you try to view it from a wide angle, leaving you with a smaller viewing radius, unlike the older LV75.
Do we recommend it?
As noted, with 22 5-star reviews out of 39 with Zero 1-star and 4 out of 2-stars (as of November 8, 2010), what consumers have contributed to the review sections potentially sets the tone that the Most users are quite happy with its performance. .
However, if you’re looking for a more affordable and respected Panasonic model, then described as the “marvel of engineering”, the Panasonic LV75, may be more your cup of tea.