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Sony DVPFX930/P 9Inch Portable DVD Player Pink
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4 out of 5
Enjoy sharp, crisp images with the high-resolution Sony DVP-FX930 stylish portable DVD player. The DVP-FX930 features a nine-inch (diag.) screen and six hours of battery life, allowing you to watch your movies from virtually anywhere for an extended period of time. Convenient touch-screen keys and a 180-degree swivel and flip screen make it easy to operate and watch your favorite movies. ....read more
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Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This is exactly what I needed and is the perfect size for travel. The screen is clear, love the remote control and the sound is adequate. The only thing I did not like is that it was taken off a shelf, a shipping label stuck on and when it was delivered any one that walked by or drove by saw I had a dvd player sitting on my porch. I think they should have put it in a plain box and am glad it was not stolen.
pink dvd player
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
we bought this dvd player for the airplane – what a perfect distraction for the girls on what turned out to be a 9 hour flight. great picture quality, holds charge well and compact!
high quality, full-featured, compact profile, with plenty of volume . . .
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
The Sony DVP-FX930 is a full-featured, well-designed, player with great looking picture quality and ample sound output. The battery is rectangular, about 3/8 inch high, and designed to attach to the bottom of the player. This allows the player to retain its sleek rectangular shape. The rated life of the battery is an impressive six hours, but you are more likely to get closer to five hours of use.
The nine inch high resolution screen is capable of delivering sharp and crisp images. The actual dimensions of the screen are 7.8″ wide by 4.4 ” high. The screen can rotate a full 180 degrees in the clockwise direction. Since the screen can be positioned opposite of the base, the controls are located below the screen, where they can be easily accessed in this configuration. There is only one actual button, for the ‘Enter’ function, and it can be a pain to operate. The other controls are touch pads in a depressed concave band that runs across the display, just above the speakers. The controls are quite sensitive, and easy to operate with the tip of a finger, but being a bit recessed into the face, getting your finger to the surface sometimes takes a little effort. Fingernail contact works, but not as well. While you can jump scenes, forward or backward, you can’t fast forward or fast reverse, using the controls on the unit, which is definitely inconvenient. Pressing the screen may not be what many are used to, so naturally there is a remote. For better responsiveness, the player has multiple sensors. The remote control unit (RMT-D191) is full featured, although some functions the unit does not have are ‘Mute’, ‘Zoom’, and ‘Repeat A-B’. The layout of the buttons could have been designed to be more convenient, but that is not unusual. The required CR2025 battery is included.
With a set of large (for a DVD player) speakers, the level of sound produced is quite high, good for movies and concert videos. Besides standard DVD’s and CD’s, the Sony will also play burned CD’s with MP3 files, but there is no tone control, so the sound will probably be trebly. Most DVD players are really slow at displaying large JPEG files, and that is true of this one as well. There is a sideshow function, which could be more convenient, and less frustrating, than trying to scroll through images. When you pop the cover, a detent stops the disc from spinning. The player has two headphone jacks, and audio in/out and video in/out jacks. There is also a ‘Hold’ switch which locks the controls on the unit, but allows the player to still be controlled by the remote. The cooling system is outstanding, as there are no major hot spots on the housing.
Standard accessories include the remote control, AC adapter, 12V auto adapter, and AV cord. The player has a non-glossy brushed metal finish, and is available in several colors. The screen frame, and top cover where the DVD is loaded are plastic, which helps to keep the weight down, but also means the unit will be prone to scratches and wear. Recharge time using the AC cord is listed at six hours. Use of the auto adapter is recommended with the engine running. With good image quality, high volume sound, and long battery life, Sony has delivered a winner. Great for travel, just pick your color. And in case there are any problems, get it from Amazon.
Great product and best price
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
Having used it to play CDs, MP3 discs and DVDs. Very convenient and easy to use, with a remote control including sound control. Like it playing CDs while screen cover closed.
Nice DVD Player
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
So far this DVD Player is great. I have had it for a month, used it several times. Hooked it up to a TV and also worked great. Great picture, nice size, color good, sound is good. I would recommend earphones, sound much better with headphones. I like the touch controls below the screen. The remote is nice also. I started to buy a cheaper player but I am very glad that I spend a little extra money to get this Sony.
Battery life sucks
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
When the player works it delivers good quality images and sound. However the battery life of the product is nowhere near the 6 hours that is promised. I recharged the player for 12 hours, plugged in my headset and put the brightness of the screen to minimum, and according to the manual the battery then should last for about 6 hours.
I put this to the test twice on a long flight, and the DVD player stopped playing after 35 minutes already! Also the menu button on the player itself is difficult to operate, and it doesn’t play DVD’s from other regions than 1 (a common thing with DVD players, but still…).
Since the long battery life was the main reason for me to buy this player, I returned it.
Incredible Picture, you have to love pink – its an intense shade
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
For the family looking to put a DVD player in the back of the minivan, or in children’s hands, there are less expensive alternatives that are probably a bit more rugged. Look to brands like Coby, Toshiba, Audiovox, Philips, and the lower end Panasonic players.
For the person looking for unparalleled portable picture quality, this is the awesome, outstanding player. It will work just great in the minivan, in fact the fold flat feature with the right hanging on the headrest case is a fantastic combo. But in their hands, on their laps, kids will likely destroy this player’s hinge.
The reason for this recommendation, Sony’s hinge is a bit fragile compared to all the other players. There is a single pivot point on this player, little hands getting frustrated twisting the screen will likely turn the screen the wrong direction or push too hard and break the hinge. All the other players have dual hinge points that are much harder to break. An older person – teenager, adult – will have a lot less trouble and will likely never break this hinge.
The great about this player:
The dimensions are about the same size as netbooks, in fact a netbook carrying case is the perfect case for this player. Set this down next to an Acer Aspire One, its hard to tell the difference. The Sony is thicker, the Aspire One is wider. They are about the same weight.
The screen, oh the sumptuous, gorgeous, screen. I have owned three other portable players starting about 10 years ago for my first (three Panasonics). I have never seen a better screen on a portable player than this one. Those extra lines of resolution, almost double the vertical lines, pays off huge. DVD’s are crisp and sharp, detail is amazing. Watching side by side with any other player; this player is like the difference between standard def television and high def. No, this is not a high def screen, it simply packs in more pixels and more resolution to show off what a DVD has inherently.
Almost all players give you, color and brightness controls. The Sony goes way farther, backlight brightness, contrast, and hue. I can actually come close to calibrating this monitor.
Viewing angle is pretty incredible. Left to right of the screen, well near 170 degrees with absolutely no compromise in picture quality. Vertical viewing angle is a lot narrower (but infinitely wider than most LCD’s I’ve seen) maybe 45 degrees off axis. It is very easy to adjust the screen for perfect viewing.
The speakers are very clear. For normal listening in a quiet room, the volume goes up to 20, 4 is perfectly loud. This is no home theater, its an inexpensive portable player, so high fedlity is not expected. Considering those constraints the player sounds really good.
It plays everything. DVD’s with full face labels. DVD-R, DVD+R. And most importantly, DVD+R DL, or dual layer. Portable players have a lot of difficulty with dual layer DVD’s. Commercial discs play perfectly. CD’s, yes. MP3 and JPG discs, yes. DiVX, NO. That is about the only format it doesn’t play.
Disc load time – very quick. Much quicker than my Panasonic players. On par with my standard full size DVD players.
The remote control is very nice for portable size. There are two IR sensors for the remote – on the screen and on the main body. I was able to pretty much point the remote anywhere near the machine and it worked.
A bonus – this player will accept video input. That’s hugely rare in this business. So you could potentially feed an iPod or iPhone into this. In addition to the proper cable out for your iPod; you will need three female / female RCA adapters (I don’t believe anyone sells an iPod video / audio out cable that is mini connectors on both ends). This is the type of connector, (Female to Female 3-RCA Coupler). The other option, you could use a 3.5mm male jack on both ends cable, and use the player as iPod speakers. That would work very nicely for audio only (Cables To Go – 21062 – 6ft 3.5mm M/M Stereo Audio Cable (Black)).
There are: Two 3.5mm headphone jacks. Video and Audio line out jacks. 9.5V DC input. Power on slide switch. Hold switch so the power doesn’t turn on or off accidently.
The Mediocre:
The video controls are touch sensitive surfaces just below the screen (in the photograph, the band is just below the Sony logo on the screen), and there is a four direction toggle / nub with a press in to accept, for navigating menus. They are touch sensitive surfaces, not capacitance (thank goodness). That means you can touch the button with a fingernail, a press does not require a damp fingertip.
The screen hinge design. Already mentioned, but this hinge just begs to be broken. The screen hinges all the way back so that the player lays almost flat, with the DVD player part open and the screen above it, like a book. If you tilt the screen up to about 90 degrees, the screen can be rotated 180 degrees clockwise. So the screen now faces backwards from the DVD player. Turn the player around 180 degrees to face the screen, and the screen angle can be pushed back all the way to the player. The player now looks like one of those PC tablet computers. Its complicated to explain, and it does, after some learning, allow you to put the screen about any direction you want it. With all that twisting and turning, the hinge still feels fragile. Its also easy to accidently touch one of the control buttons while you are doing all this movement.
The bad:
The disc and laser transports make a lot of noise. When you first load a disc, the spin up sound is louder than I expected. None of my Panasonic player ever made this much wind up noise. The laser head starts searching for the lead in track, and it makes a strange, not 100% pleasant sound moving. Once the movie is playing, the sound level goes down to normal levels.
There is no S-Video, HDMI, or Component video output possible. Then again, S-Video connections on televisions are getting rare these days. And the DVD format resolution is on S-Video high; way below HDMI or Component standards, so Sony would have had to build in an upconversion processor at great cost; and for what? The rare time this is connect to a television. Still, somebody needs to make an HDMI out portable player to connect up in hotel rooms (Hyatt Place and many Holiday Inns now have these simple connections).
This beast is heavy. Its not the battery – in fact the battery is fairly light weight. It is much heavier than anything Panasonic. I made the choice to trade off the weight and slightly shorter battery life for a gorgeous picture. You’ll have to decide what is important to you.
Battery life – this is neither good nor bad. Sony reports 6 hours. Nobody will ever get that many hours out of a full charge in the real world. That 6 hours is at the lowest backlight setting and the lowest contrast setting; with headphones. This player will easily show two movies with battery to spare. After two moveis, best to do something different for a while anyway. Recharge time is long, 6 hours from fully dead battery.
One wonderful thing about this battery – it is the bottom portion of the player, nice and flat. There’s no wart sticking out the back or the bottom.
In the box – the player with battery, a remote control with battery, A/C adapter (which is 110-220V input, so it will work in Europe), a 12V cigarette lighter adapter, and A/V composite video / audio adapter. There is no carrying case in the box.
All things considered, the image quality, the battery life, and the screen size sold me on this player versus everything else available. Just hope you never have to buy a replacement battery, it alone is the almost the same price as a whole new player.
This review is posted under all five colors available for the DVP-FX930 Sony Player. There is no difference between these models, save the body color. It comes in Blue (the model I own), Pink, Red, White, and Black.
EXACTLY WHAT WE WANTED!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I own this model in red. I looked at many models for a couple of weeks before purchasing this portable DVD player. I am absolutely thrilled with it! I knew I would be as soon as I opened the box, but decided to wait until after our vacation to see if it held up. It is FANTASTIC!!!
First of all, the picture quality is awesome – as is the volume. It gets LOUD. I bought it for the purpose of keeping an 18 month old entertained on a plane ride and on a driving tour of California; it exceeded my expectations. I first had to use it in the airport waiting for the plane, and I am not joking or exaggerating when I say that it received compliments from people around us about the picture and sound quality (I didn’t have the headphones in use at that time). On the plane, the sound is so good that we could hear with or without headphones, but for courtesy’s sake, we used our headphones (had to purchase separately). No, you cannot rewind it just a little bit with the buttons on the player, but you CAN with the remote (which I neglected to pack). So, it was a blessing on the plane.
Secondly, we drove up Highway 1 from San Francisco to Crescent City in CA. If you’ve never driven the road, it’s not particularly smooth and it is probably the curviest road in America. The DVD player was simply sitting on the console between the front seats in the Nissan Exterra so my son could see it since we didn’t have a car mount, and it didn’t skip once!!! Again, the volume was so good that he could hear it perfectly, and the picture is great from any angle. The swivel feature is sooooo convenient, because you can fit it in virtually any space and still watch it. Also, the pictures don’t show it, but it not only swivels around, but it will fold back down on itself so it’s flat and you can still watch the screen.
If I could love an inanimate object, I would love this one. It is absolutely worth more money than the others. It is made of good quality materials – not plastic. Just don’t touch the screen (the wonderful 9 inch screen – it will get dirty with the slightest brush, but it’s easy enough to clean – even when it has milk spilled on it. That’s my only negative; otherwise, this is absolutely perfect.
Oh, almost forgot – the battery life is wonderful! That was the primary reason I decided on this one. The plane ride/travel time for the first day was 6+ hours, and this lasted as long as I needed it to. I love that it came with a car adapter, because that really helped, but the battery didn’t run out as long as we were out there, and that’s exactly what I needed.
Sony DVP-FX930/P-9 inch player, Pink
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
The picture and sound are good, and the player looks terrific because it comes in colors. The fact that the screen can tilt forward and back, left to right, and can be folded back 180 degrees, makes it nice to hold on your lap on a plane. HOWEVER, DO NOT LOSE YOUR REMOTE. In fact, you might want to tether it to the machine. The on-machine adjustments are made on “bar” below the screen. They are touch activated, very sensitive to pressure, and frustrating to use. In addition, there aren no easy demarcations of where one control begins and ends; they all kind of run together. The volume control is a 1 1/2 – 2″ segment alongthe bar, and you are supposed to set the volume by sliding your finger across this segment. I finally glued beads on the “-” and “+” “volume” part of the bar, just to find it. The bar is so sensitive that in slight darkness, feeling for the beads can unintentionally adjust the volume. It is trial and error. I think a dial or pressure sensitive button or dial would have been a better design. True, the sound and picture qualities are very nice,and the machine has other kinds of tricks that may be nice, but they also add another set of controls on the screen and on the remote that are more confusing. The toggle on the machine is also very small and someone with large fingers might find it hard to use. There is another touch sensitive button to the right of the toggle that brushing against it activates another control, and shrinks the screen to 3/4 size. I WOULD NOT BUY THIS MACHINE AGAIN. It is too much money for something frustrating to use. Sony makes good products that do what you bought them for. However, the adjustment controls make it a pain to use. I would compromise picture and sound for easier controls.
great viewing angle and portability
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Great viewing angle, easy for my 4 year old to control and use. Comes with car adapter, regular plug in, and has 6 hours of battery life. Very convenient.
sony dvd fx930/p 9″ portable player pink
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
great product. easy to use and take places. convenient battery chargers.
picture is good.
Good for what’s out there!
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
This is a great portable DVD player. The pink model was nice (it was cheaper than the other colors) and I like the fact that the battery covered the bottom of the player and did not stick out in the back.
The top of the machine was plastic, fairly light (in weight). The previous model was heavier and had a textured top that felt solid. The display screen does swivel 180 degrees, but doesn’t hold very well at any other position in between 0-180.
The remote was bigger than most portables. It does not have a ‘Power ON/OFF’ button, although it has a dedicated Skip, and FFW. Also, the keys are not glow in the dark or lighted.
The touch screens worked, needing very little pressure to use them. The engine was quiet, except when initially loading a DVD.
The sound was very loud, the loudest I have heard on similar portables, esp. the Toshiba. Toshiba SDP93S 9-Inch Portable DVD Player, (Black with Silver Trim)
I was considering between those two models and I chose the Sony because it could play a variety of DVD formats. The Toshiba cannot play DVD R+ discs, so anything burned on a DVD recorder or camera won’t play if using dvd +r. The Sony handles all of the formats. No Divx and not having an SD slot was not as important to me as disc compatibility.
Seems like good value
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
The unit seems well constructed. They could dispense with the speakers as they sound horrible, but the presence of two audio jacks is nice. Placing the controls at the bottom of the screen is a good idea. The unit end up being quite bulky and thick with the battery attached, though. Overall, it plays well.
good portable player
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Swivel screen that can go tablet style is a great feature
the soft keys under the screen vs hard keys all over works very well
Battey life is excellent. The battery is pretty much the whole bottom which I found helps keep the unit in your hands – less top heavy. overall very pleased and so are the kids.
Great portable DVD Player!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Our last portable DVD player lasted four years. I love the fact that this one has a battery backup and that you can pause a DVD and pick up where you left off – we did not have this feature before and what a pain to get a movie back to where you left off. This player is light and the picture is great! The controls are easy to use. About the only feature missing is a way to hang this player on the back of a seat so the child does not need to hold it in order to watch it. Other than that it has been great.
all good except battery
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I love it except the 6 hour battery life which is what I was looking forward to is not true for the one I got.
Perfect portable for loooooong flights
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
This product is a life saver for very long flights. It has the longest battery life we could find, is pretty light and very easy to use. One thing to watch out for: the sound on our original purchase stopped working after about 2 months of heavy use. We purchased a second device and are waiting to see if we encounter the same problem.
Money well spent…..
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I bought 2 of these on June 30, 2008 (1.5 years ago)– I pink and one blue. I came to write this review today because my son is in his room watching something on his and my wife is in our room watching something on the other.
Some history– I purchased a “dual” brand for the back of the car’s seats before I bought these. We never even took those out of the car and they broke within a month without the kids even touching them. I purchased these ones for our ’08 summer vacation/long road trip. My kids use them in the car, at home, at sleepovers, on airplanes…everywhere! We don’t even have cases– they just hold them and move along.
The picture is super clear, the sound is great, the battery lasts forever…. No complaints. And it’s still kicking after all this time. The kids drop them, stand on them, lose them at the bottom of the toybox…. you all get the idea.
I’d buy it again in a heartbeat!
Don’t get on a plane without it
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
We have a 2yo addicted to Dora and this made flying across the country and being stuck in airports a breeze. All the other players don’t have the long battery which you will need. awesome for the swivel screen which really works out on the tray table in coach.
Damaged Goods
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
The DVD player looked so cute. I knew our daughter was going to love the look of it when she opened it up for Christmas. Unfortunately when I opened it up before wrapping it, the screen was smashed. I can not tell you how the unit worked as we sent it right back and received a coupon worth the price of the unit for use on Amazon. We really would have preferred to have a credit on our credit card instead.