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Aiwa XDDW1 Portable DVD Player

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Manufacturer: Aiwa
Model: XDDW1
Binding: Electronics
Publisher: Aiwa
Label: Aiwa

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Features for Aiwa XDDW1 Portable DVD Player:

5.8-inch active-matrix screen
Built-in stereo speakers
CD compatible
Includes rechargeable battery and charger
Dolby Digital input and decoder

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Editorial Review
Why limit yourself to watching movies at home? This portable DVD player works with a rechargeable battery and allows you to play DVD movies or CD recordings virtually anywhere. Extra-wide perspective Active-Matrix TFT Color screen offers exceptionally realistic color and sharpness that compliment the increase fidelity that DVD delivers. Located below the screen are the manual set-up, brightness, color and mode controls buttons. The mode control allows you to switch between screen aspect ratios: full screen, which displays 16 x 9 or widescreen; normal, which leaves left and right black borders; zoom, which enlarges the picture from the center point of the display to fill the screen; off, which is convenient if you hook the unit up to an exterior monitor. There is a composite video output, including RCA right and left audio outs, S-video and a headphone jack. Additionally, there is a digital audio out (optical), which makes this unit Dolby Digital and DTS compatible for those of you with a stand-alone decoder or a Dolby Digital / DTS ready receiver. There is also an in/out switch. With the switch in the out position, you can send composite or S-video and audio signals to an external monitor. Some other attributes include a 96kHz/24-bit audio D/A converter, a 10-bit video D/A converter, complete onscreen display, chapter and time search (DVD), and even a mark function that gives you the ability to bookmark a movie you haven't finished or to make your own favorite scene selection points. The Aiwa XD-DW1 also has a feature called Q-Surround, which is designed to simulate a surround sound feel through the built-in stereo speakers.
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Customer Reviews

Allows Full-Screen Images

2001-08-28
I have been using this machine for about a year and am very pleased. Admittedly I have extra batteries so the duration of use problem does not exist for me. One good feature that few users have picked up on is that this machine outputs PAL as well as NTSC. I don't need this for output purposes since we don't use PAL TV's in this country, but the switches also affect the internal screen and allow a fullsize image to be seen without distortion. Thus for example if you use a DVD which is not set up for the 9x16 screen (most older movies aren't) and you try to watch it on the NTSC setting, used in this country, the image will not fully fill the screen. If you expand the image to fill the screen using the screen setting control, it will fill the screen but at a cost of some detail and a sort of screen door effect on the picture. Most players sold in this country have this problem. If you use the PAL and the setting switches on the AIWA, you can get a full width image with virtually no distortion. Thus you effectively get a bigger screen, since you get to use the full width of its 5.8 inches. I also appreciate the full size RCA audio outputs since they allow the use of better quality interconnects. Most other machines use a miniplug for this and there are few avaialble connectors and none of any quality.

probably worth it at 400 bucks

2001-07-24
the aforementioned criticismis true. I could not get through ONE movie on a plane let slone two. It works excellently as a home player, though and when plugged in can go to a friend's house and hook up easily. very easy to use.

Aiwa XD DW-1

2001-06-20
The screen is a little too small for adequate viewing. Due to it's panoramic size, viewing letterbox DVD's results in distortion of the image by lateral stretching. The unit has a large, heavy, cumbersome NiMH battery that doesn't last long enough to view two decent size movies. It may be worthwhile spending a little more to get a better unit.

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