Samsung DVD-L100 10'' Widescreen Portable DVD Player with MemoryStick Port

Samsung DVD-L100 10'' Widescreen Portable DVD Player with MemoryStick Port

Product Description
Amazon.com Product Description
Pushing the limits of portability, Samsung's widescreen DVD-L100 DVD player manages to pack a whopping 10-inch TFT LCD screen into a chassis standing less than an inch high when folded. The player is also unique in offering a Memory Stick port, broadening its uses to include MP3/WMA playback (from either Memory Stick or recordable CD) and digital image viewing.

A screen-inversion function and locking disc mechanism let you roof-mount the unit in virtually any position for many cars, trucks, SUVs, etc. Two .125-inch headphone jacks--enhanced by phantom virtual surround--accommodate a viewing partner and offer big sound to go with the DVD-L100's big screen. When the player is away from the car, its Smart Inverter Control extends battery life and improves contrast by dynamically adjusting the display backlight to suit ambient light levels.

Chapter digest provides multiple thumbnail images, making it easy to find favorite scenes on a disc, and motion zoom allows extreme magnification of selected screen areas, without distortion, even as the movie is playing. Component-, composite-, and S-video outputs let you hook the player up with a home television, while its optical and coaxial digital-audio outputs channel discrete, 5.1-channel Dolby Digital and DTS surround sound to a range of audio/video receivers and surround speaker setups.

Product Description:
The DVD-L100 is an innovative new way to bring DVD movies, digital music and even family photos with you wherever you go. Lifting the huge 10" wide screen display reveals a locking disc bay that accurately tracks DVDs, CDs and even CD-R/W discs no matter what position the player is in. The versatility of the DVD-L100 allows you to bring the 10" portable DVD to many different locations and enjoy the largest picture available. The integral Memory Stick slot can be used to instantly transfer digital photos or MP3 files. These pictures and music can be burned onto the increasingly popular CD-R/W discs, and the player also reads the Photo CDs available from many photo finishing retailers. Off road, online or just in the palm of your hand, the DVD-L100 is the perfect portable partner for people on the go!

Samsung DVD-L100 10'' Widescreen Portable DVD Player with MemoryStick Port

Samsung DVD-L100 10" Widescreen Portable DVD Player with MemoryStick Port
Average customer rating:

Pretty Cool but Can Get Really Hot

Do Not Buy This Product!!

Not the best one around

BREAK OUT THE CRYING TOWELS

Nice player, but not really portable

Samsung DVD-L100 10" Widescreen Portable DVD Player with MemoryStick Port

Manufacturer: Samsung
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

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Product Features:

10-inch 16:9 aspect-ratio TFT LCD screen; player is less than an inch thick

Memory Stick port simplifies digital music and photo file enjoyment

Plays DVD-Video, VCD, DVD-R, MP3 and WMA CD, and Photo CD

2.5-hour battery life with included rechargeable pack

Includes credit-card remote control and required home theater hookup cables

ASIN: B00006J07X

Product Description

The DVD-L100 is an innovative new way to bring DVD movies, digital music and even family photos with you wherever you go. Lifting the huge 10" wide screen display reveals a locking disc bay that accurately tracks DVDs, CDs and even CD-R/W discs no matter what position the player is in. The versatility of the DVD-L100 allows you to bring the 10" portable DVD to many different locations and enjoy the largest picture available. The integral Memory Stick slot can be used to instantly transfer digital photos or MP3 files. These pictures and music can be burned onto the increasingly popular CD-R/W discs, and the player also reads the Photo CDs available from many photo finishing retailers. Off road, online or just in the palm of your hand, the DVD-L100 is the perfect portable partner for people on the go!

Amazon.com Product Description

Pushing the limits of portability, Samsung's widescreen DVD-L100 DVD player manages to pack a whopping 10-inch TFT LCD screen into a chassis standing less than an inch high when folded. The player is also unique in offering a Memory Stick port, broadening its uses to include MP3/WMA playback (from either Memory Stick or recordable CD) and digital image viewing.

Customer Reviews:

Pretty Cool but Can Get Really Hot.......2004-05-18

First of all, let me say that I love my L100, I have been the envy of so many people on planes or car trips. It is a really cool and useful thing to have if you love movies and have time to waste. But there are a few things you should be aware of.

Pro's:
Huge 10'' screen, really is gigantic One of the largest on the market, I think they just came out with a 12''.
Comes with a carrying case.
Comes with AV cables to connect the dvd player to the tv.
The sound quality is great when in a quiet environment.
Plays cds, mp3s, and picture cds.
The unit itself is really small.
It has 2 headphone jacks, so that more than one person can listen.
Screen is great, and you can view it a lots of angles.

Con's:
The unit is not well ventilated and dvd processing is somewhat labor intensive so the unit becomes very hot on the bottom after about 30 minutes.
If you don't unplug the battery, it will drain all the juice, and carrying the battery around with the rest of the accessories can become a bit cumbersome.
Personally, I have gotten a good 2 1/2 hours max movie time, and that was with headphones and the screen on medium brightness.
It takes like 4-6 hours to charge the battery from zero.
The unit will not charge while being used.
The sound does suck on occasion, get a good pair of sound cancelling earphones, and that will alleviate most of the problem.

All in all its pretty cool, if you love techno thingys like me.

Do Not Buy This Product!!.......2003-06-16

Let's start with the good features of this product. The screen is the largest available at this time. And it is very thin. Now for all the poor features of this player. First the screen is hard to see in daylight even when at it's brightest setting. Second the battery only lasts about 1 1/2 hours. Not enough time for even one movie. The battery also needs to be charged immediately prior to use. After a couple of days it depletes it's charge. Replacement batteries are about $150! Samsung promises a high capacity battery soon but not at this time. An auto adapter is only available from an after-market company.

The sound is so low that I am forced to purchase a device to play it through my auto's radio speakers. It does work well with the headphones and there are two jacks available. But while traveling in a car you can not hear the sound coming from the speakers.

The memory stick reader is a nice feature, but if want to view pictures over two megapixels it takes an eternity to load them.

My advice is to spend your hard-earned money on a different product!

Not the best one around.......2003-05-12

I have to admit that I was tempted to buy this DVD Player just because of the big 10" screen. I was looking for a player that both kids could watch from the back seat of the car, so that they wouldn't make me crazy on long drives. After making the investment of near a grand, I was sadly disappointed in its performance. Face it, for this kind of price, it would be reasonable to expect a player that had a nice durable case, either metal or impact-resistant resin, but the L100 is sadly plain old PVC and not very heavy duty at that. The picture quality is not as good as the 8" Panasonic; it is not as sharp or bright, and off-angle viewing is less than great. Battery life too, is short, so that I had to deal with the kids protests, when they couldn't watch the end of the Lord of the Rings on a long flight. If you get one as a gift, see if you can dig up a spare battery. One pro for this player is that the spindle is detented, and there is a switch to flip the picture upside down. Too frustrated to use the player for travel, I mounted it under a counter top to watch a movie while I was making dinner. It folds nicely up when I need the space, and a little home engineering buried the wires. This unit is not a total disaster, so it gets 3 stars, but overall, it could have been way better. For waht I spent, I just about could have bought a 12" iBook with a DVD player, had a better picture, and answered my email when the kids weren't playing Warcraft. If any of the Samsung folks read this, be advised: you could have shaved a few bucks off the margin, built in the kinds of durability and display that would have made this player a killer, and sold a whole lot more of them.

BREAK OUT THE CRYING TOWELS.......2003-05-04

I don't care what all the naysayers are crying about, I love this thing. After looking at all of the other different makes and models, I settled on this one. Compared to all the rest, this one had everything I was looking for in a portable player (and then some) - the biggest, clearest picture screen; 2 (!!!) headphone jacks; a remote; the ability to be hooked up to a full sized T.V. (the cables are included); multiple speed fastforwarding and reversing; a 2X zoom feature; battery powered operation; it's own padded case; etc. I still haven't played with all the cool extras this thing is capable of. I took this thing to work and everybody was drooling. Maybe it was just Janet Jackson (the Live In Hawaii DVD) but I think it was also the big, clear screen in such a thin package. Gotta go, it's show time.

Nice player, but not really portable.......2003-04-30

I recently purchased the Samsung DVD-L100 "portable" DVD player.
The unit I received worked real well, with a nice clear, crisp picture and beautiful color. Also, the sound from the on-board speakers is good for a unit this size, although in a high-noise environment, headphones are recommended. The unit is a nice size that brings a 10 inch screen.

However, for all the fine work Samsung did here, the unit fails miserably in what it was intended to do, be a PORTABLE DVD player. The battery is a HUGE clunker that attached to the back and from it's size, you would think the unit would run forever on a charge. It does not. I was lucky to get 1 1/2 hours of play time before it died. Also, if you leave the battery attached without re-charging, it drains itself overnight.
This defeats the entire purpose of a portbale DVD player. A portable DVD player should be able to play for at least 4 to 5 hours on the battery charge, or it is not "portable".
An extra battery is 150 bucks! WOW! And as far as I know, there are NO extended life batteries, and the unit DOES NOT come with a car adaptor for use in the car. This unit is useless. What can be done with it other then for use in the home near an AC adaptor? For that, you can get great DVD decks for under 100 bucks.
The unit at 700 bucks, plus an extra BATTERY AT 150, PLUS OTHER GIZOMOS OR ADAPTORS FOR USE IN THE CAR, and you are over 1,000 bucks for this unit. At that price, we are approaching laptop prices.

Luckily, the dealer I bought it from allowed 30 days for a return, and mine went back today.

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