Philips DVP3828/94 DVD Player

Key Features

To the delight of movie buffs, Philips brings to them a pocket-friendly video player that is feature packed. The Philips DVP3828/94 is a DVD player that will change the way you experience cinema in the privacy of your home. This Philips video player has a slide-out tray which can play one disc at a time.

This video player will greatly improve the visual pleasure of a movie with its video upsampling feature, which enhances the video quality from any CD you use. The DVP3828/94 runs on a 110 - 240 V, 50/60 Hz power supply and consumes 10 W of power on play mode. This consumption reduces to 1 W on standby mode, helping you to save on an electricity bill when the gadget is not in active use.

Design

The Philips DVD Player weighs 1.45 kg and sports a minimalistic design that fits in well with most other entertainment appliances. The front left panel sports the power, play/pause and eject buttons along with a USB port. The right front panel is dominated by the disc load tray, completing the classic look of this Philips DVD player. Aside from these control buttons, this DVP3828/94 DVD player can also be operated with a remote control for convenience.

Video and Audio

The Philips DVP3828/94 supports NTSC and PAL signal systems, which lets you access videos and movies on discs from most countries. You can watch content from DVDs, DVD-Videos, DVD+R/+RWs, Video CD/SVCD and CD-R/CD-RWs. This content can be of MPEG1 and MPEG2 file formats. The video digital to analog converter functions at 12 bit, 108 MHz, keeping the quality of videos as close to the original format as possible.

The audio digital to analog converter functions at 24 bit, 192 KHz, which maintains the integrity of the original sound track in all your favorite movies. The audio data is bundled into smaller packs and delivered in Dolby Digital Sound, which creates a theatre-like experience in your living room. The signal to noise ratio of this Philips video player is 90 dB, ensuring that your audio tracks are relayed with minimum disturbance.

This DVP3828/94 video player has a frequency response of 30 - 20000 Hz, which encompasses the entire range of sounds audible to the human ear. This ensures that whether it is the theatric rumble of thunder or a high-pitched whistle, you will never miss out on any sound effect with this video player. Your favorite audio tracks can be accessed from CD, MP3-CD, MP3-DVD, WMA-CD and Audio CD discs. This Philips DVD players supports playback of MP3, PCM and WMA file formats.

Connectivity and Features

The USB 2.0 high speed port lets you use the USB Media Link to plug in your USB device and play media from it on your DVD player. You can also record audio tracks from a CD directly onto a USB device with the One-touch MP3 creation feature. The composite video out, component video out and analog audio multi-channel out come in handy to connect your DVD player to a television and a home theatre system.

The child lock and parental control settings of the Philips video player lets you decide what your children can watch by letting you rate movies according to the content. You can also watch photographs from earlier vacations or treks with this DVD player as is supports JPEG file format as well.

Buying Tips

There are a few features that need to be considered, when you invest in a DVD player. The Progressive Scan feature reads data from successive lines and relays them to the screen in a sequence, thus delivering sharp images. The Screen Fit function ensures that the picture fills the entire screen. The black bars on the top and bottom of the picture are removed for your viewing pleasure.

The 5.1 channel audio output makes this video player ideal to connect to a home theatre system, so that you can enjoy all the stunning sound tracks from movies the way they were meant to be. With the easily accessible USB port on the front panel, this DVD player by Philips is a convenient video player.