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With all the hype around smart phones it's easy to forget that a portable DVD player is still a far better way of watching films on the move!Featuring an 8 inch screen, the LG DP581 portable DVD player is a fine example of just how much more comfortable it is watching this than a mobile phone screen when on the train, plane or just sitting around. Better still, the high resolution screen can be tilted and swivelled to get the best viewing angle possible - something else that a mobile phone can't beat. Combined together you'll enjoy detail, depth of image and a level of brightness that no other media at this price can hope to replicate.When it comes to features the LG DP581 shows just how far portable DVD players have moved on in recent years. With USB Direct Recording you can rip and record a CD played on the DP581 directly on to an MP3 player or other media source with USB input. You can also play back information stored on a USB device, on the player. Another great feature is the 3 in 1 card reader. This lets you share your digital photos and videos without having to peer at a tiny camera screen. Coming complete with a carry case, battery pack, car adaptor lead and basic AV lead, the DP581 is fully equipped for a life on the move. Stylish, practical and affordable; the LG DP581 is one of the most convincing portable DVD players to date.
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147 of 148 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Superb Picture Quality and Battery Life,
This review is from: LG DP581 Portable DVD Player with 8-inch Screen and 6 Hours Battery Life (Electronics)
I bought this player after months of looking at portables. I mainly wanted it for my commute to work by train, to watch a mixture of DVDs and DIVX files.I'm delighted with my purchase. After all my going round in circles reading online reviews, it was a simple trip to Currys that decided it. The picture quality on this player is just streets ahead of the competition. Obviously it blew the Matsui and other Currys own brands out the water, but what surprised me is that it was simply so much better than the Toshibas that Currys stocked. If you go and look at players in a shop, look out for text appearing on screen. On the other players, sharp edges such as text were fuzzy and stepped. On the LG they're completely crisp. It's remarkable. The speaker is nothing to write home about but perfectly useable and as good as any of the other portable players. I will mainly be using this with headphones, for which there are two standard sockets. DIVX playback from a burnt DVD is fine. I haven't yet tested the SD card slot to see if they will play from there, but in theory they should. Battery life is excellent. The first charge lasted just over four hours. I had the brightness up the whole time as I was in daylight on a train, and also didn't use it continuously - it was on and off over the course of a few days. So the claim of six hours is probably accurate if you were to have it on constantly with the screen dimmed. Nonetheless, I'm impressed with four hours. The styling is beautiful as you'd expect from LG. It's shiny! The swivel screen is great for space-saving and clicks reassuringly in to place. It feels sturdy - I'm usually scared of breaking swivel screens! Neatly, there are no buttons on the player as most have. On the surround, to the left and right of the picture, are touch-screen controls. You touch a 'home' symbol and the menu pops up on screen, with touch-sensitive lights down the edges you touch to select things. Very, very neat. The player also comes with a remote. Accessory wise, it comes packaged with a soft case, charger and in-car charger, as well as an AV-out cable. There are a couple of down-sides which I don't mind but some people might want to consider: 1) The screen is glossy. You do see reflections in it if you're somewhere bright, and the touch screen controls on the surround get covered in noticeable finger prints. Like so many LG products it's beautifully shiny but that's not always the most practical thing! This will be a consideration if you're buying it for kids. 2) To be honest, I think this is something common to all portable DVD players: You can't display what you're watching in anything other than widescreen. So, watching old TV shows that are in 4:3, they get stretched to fill the screen. It's anywhere near as annoying on this size screen as it is on your 32" at home, but it might bug some.
25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Nice but heavy,
By Orchard Gate "pi_eater" (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: LG DP581 Portable DVD Player with 8-inch Screen and 6 Hours Battery Life (Electronics)
Great player with excellent picture and the resume feature - which surely should be a standard on all portable DVD players but isn't - makes it practical and convenient, as you start viewing where you last switched off. But be aware of one draw back - with the battery fitted (and what's the use of knowing the weight without a battery?) this beast is as thick as a hardback book and weighs 1.4kg. As this player replaced an older Shinco which I have owned for a few years and loved before it started to show signs of old age and which weighed less than half this LG product, it came as something of a shock.Of course the battery life is a lot longer but so too are my arms now, lugging around what feels like two bricks tied together.
40 of 41 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
LG DP581B Portable DVD Player,
By mac_no1 (England, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: LG DP581 Portable DVD Player with 8-inch Screen and 6 Hours Battery Life (Electronics)
I'd like to thank Sarah for a very helpful review and agree entirely with her findings. Your comments made me check the picture quality of all the other leading brands and I have to say its remarkable how much better the LG model is. Features too, are very much better than some other top makes and at such a competitive price point too. Needless to say I bought one and I am very pleased with it.One or two minor issues I do have, and they are only minor, one is the weight....it is slightly heavier than I'd have liked but then its probably no worse than the rest of the other brands. Putting the player in my hand luggage with my camera equipment doesn't leave much of my allowance for anything else (good job the other half has an allowance too). The second is the bag that is provided....its a horrid grey and beige colour, whilst not important it just doesn't seem to go with the dvd's shiny black casing. Last but not least the photo slideshow load times for files over 2MB can be a little irritating but it is noted in the instructions that you should stick below this recommended limit. Still it can zoom in on photos (up to 400%) and pan around them, so on holidays abroad it is handy for checking through photos using the camera's memory card.
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