Panasonic DVD-A115 DVD Player
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Product Description:
The Panasonic DVD-A115 carries over the advanced performance features for the highest picture and sound quality. With the Quick Start mechanism, Chapter Preview, Dialogue Enhancer, Advanced Virtual Surround Sound, Hi-Speed Smooth Motion Scan (5 speeds up to 100x) and Dolby Digital/DTS outputs as standard features, the DVD-A115 is an exceptional value.The Chapter Preview feature conveniently refreshes your memory if you should miss part of a movie (if, for example, you've fallen asleep right in the middle of the story!). You can also scan forward or backward in up to 100 times normal speed, with no video distortion. When viewing a movie, you no longer have to strain to hear the dialogue in a noisy scene. The new Dialogue Enhancer feature boosts the volume of the center channel - where most of the principal dialogue emanates when playing a Dolby Digital 5.1 disc - by 6 dB. This feature greatly enhances the overall viewing experience. Quick Start allows picture to appear on screen in a matter of seconds. Further contributing to audio performance is Advanced Virtual Surround Sound (VSS). When active, viewers can enjoy a simulated 5.1 channel effect, downmixed from either a 5.1 channel or two-channel Dolby Digital soundtrack, from the stereo speakers of any home audio system. This feature is ideal for anyone who wants the superior video quality and film buff extras that DVD offers, but doesn't have the room or the budget for a full-blown surround sound system. Easy to Use On-Screen Menu Icons allow you to control a variety of player and disc settings via remote control.
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Panasonic DVD-A115 DVD Player
Manufacturer: Panasonic ProductGroup: CE Binding: Electronics  DVD Players
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Product Description
The Panasonic DVD-A115 carries over the advanced performance features for the highest picture and sound quality. With the Quick Start mechanism, Chapter Preview, Dialogue Enhancer, Advanced Virtual Surround Sound, Hi-Speed Smooth Motion Scan (5 speeds up to 100x) and Dolby Digital/DTS outputs as standard features, the DVD-A115 is an exceptional value.The Chapter Preview feature conveniently refreshes your memory if you should miss part of a movie (if, for example, you've fallen asleep right in the middle of the story!). You can also scan forward or backward in up to 100 times normal speed, with no video distortion. When viewing a movie, you no longer have to strain to hear the dialogue in a noisy scene. The new Dialogue Enhancer feature boosts the volume of the center channel - where most of the principal dialogue emanates when playing a Dolby Digital 5.1 disc - by 6 dB. This feature greatly enhances the overall viewing experience. Quick Start allows picture to appear on screen in a matter of seconds. Further contributing to audio performance is Advanced Virtual Surround Sound (VSS). When active, viewers can enjoy a simulated 5.1 channel effect, downmixed from either a 5.1 channel or two-channel Dolby Digital soundtrack, from the stereo speakers of any home audio system. This feature is ideal for anyone who wants the superior video quality and film buff extras that DVD offers, but doesn't have the room or the budget for a full-blown surround sound system. Easy to Use On-Screen Menu Icons allow you to control a variety of player and disc settings via remote control.Customer Reviews:
Still working fine after all this time.......2003-12-10
The final problem I have is not actually with the player itself, but with my digital cable box. There are times when I'm viewing a fave platter, and I can just barely perceive very slight noises that sound a bit like dialogue between a couple people emanating from somewhere. Well, it just so happens that those noises ARE indeed dialogue (no, they're not voices in my head you smart@$$es!), and the place they're coming from is the show that's playing on my digital cable box. For some reason, the cable sound is "bleeding through" slightly into the Video 2 display screen my DVD player is hooked up to. Fortunately, this particular problem is really easy to overcome: I just turn off the cable box and -vwah-lah!-no "bleed-through" noise!
The remote control's pretty standard, with the usual Pause, Play, Stop, Slow-Mo, Menu, Fast Forward/Reverse, A-B Repeat, Subtitle/Audio Track Select, and Track Skip, and track-selector ten-key pad buttons that you'd expect from such a device. You know, the kinda stuff a DVDphile likes to fool around with just to see what each thing does. And of course this is done without consulting the owner's manual (where's the fun in THAT?!). The only problem I've had with the remote was when a friend I let borrow my player and remote one day, lost the cover to the battery housing. Now the batteries are held in place with a piece of index card and packing tape. Talk about redneck chic, hmm?
Sadly, in spite of its long period of faithful service, I've been shopping around for a replacement (if anyone out there has a recommendation for a great single-disc DVD player in the one hundred-twenty to two-hundred dollar range, please e-mail me your rec!). Five-plus years of new advancements in digital video technology (such as superior sound and even finer picture clarity) have pretty much relegated this digital dinosaur to the status of something-to-palm-off-on-my-parents-so-they-can-sorta-catch-up-with-the-times. Which I find a little scary, `cuz they're still tryin' to figure out the complexities of their VCR! And now that I think about it, they don't even own any DVDs! I might hafta do some actual Christmas shoppin' for `em this year...
Well, I think I've pretty much said all I can about this dependable (if not perfect) and close-to-obsolete bit of digital video technology. I guess I'll wind things up by giving you its features as laid out in the owner's manual. So ff you're in the market to buy a five-year-old DVD player that's at least two generations removed from its modern descendants (and you KNOW who you are!), here's the skinny...
The Panasonic DVD-A115 player features:
- 10 Bit video D/A converter for high picture quality (well, high picture quality for the time, anyway)
- 95kHz / 24-bit audio D/A converter and DTS digital output for superior (for the time-well, you know) sound quality.
- Advanced (for the-- ahh, forget it) Virtual Surround Sound (VSS) function
- On-Screen Menu Icons
- Dialogue Enhancer: boosts sound level of center channel of Dolby Digital/5.1-channel discs so dialogue can be heard over the background sounds and score.
- Multi-audio function: up to 8 audio tracks can be manually encoded and accessed.
- Multi-subtitle function: up to 32 different subtitle tracks can be encoded and accessed.
- Multi-angle function: allows you to choose different angles of the same scene (like duh, right?).
- Parental lock: a way to keep the kids from viewin' inappropriate material.
- Marker function: player "can store a maximum of 5 positions in memory, for convenient access, if desired", according to the manual. Not sure what this feature's all about, but I guess I could find out for myself one of these weeks...
- Discs that this player supports includes 3-inch/8cm and 5-inch/12cm DVDs, CDs, and video CDs that are Region 1 or All-Region encoded.
- This player cannot play the following discs: Non-Region 1/All-Region and PAL DVDs, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RAM, CD-ROM, VSD, CDV, CD-G, CD-RW, DVD-RW, CVD, SVCD, Photo CDs (possible damage to data on disc if played), CD-R (possible damage to data on disc if played), and Divx. (Divx?! Now you REALLY have an idea of just how old this thing is...)
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