Product Description

Portable movies dazzle on the versatile swivel screen of the 8.5-inch Wide DCP850 and DVDs and iPod aren't the only media it can handle. Display digital photos or play Divx movies through the memory card reader and a broad range of video-based media including DVD+-R and DVD+-RW formats, SVCD, VCD and MPEG4. This light-weight station is compact and stylish with car adapters to ensure the player stays powered on your trip. The docking station also charges your iPod while viewing. The built-in, rechargeable battery delivers up to 2.5 hours of playtime and remote control adds simple navigation while traveling. Optimal screen quality is ensured with Zero Bright Dot which limits the number of blank spots in LCD screens.

Product Details

• Color: White
• Brand: Philips
• Model: DCP850/37
• Dimensions: 1.50" h x 6.40" w x 7.60" l, 3.00 pounds
• Native resolution: 8.5
• Display size: 8.5

Features

• 8.5" LCD Swivel 16:9 screen
• iPod docking: play movies and recharge your iPod device
• Compatible with DVD+R/-R, CD-R/-RW, MP3, DivX
• SD card slot for movies and digital photos

From the Manufacturer
Enjoy your DVDs and iPod videos on a 8.5-inch wide swivel screen. The sleek and compact Philips DCP850 also features a SD/MMC memory card reader, which allows you to view digital photos or DivX movies stored on your memory card. The screen's 16:9 aspect ratio lets you enjoy movies in all their widescreen glory. Its built-in battery and slim design--just an inch-and-a-half thick--makes it easy to take with you anywhere.

Enjoy DVD, DVD+/-R and DVD+/-RW, (S)VCD, DivX, and MPEG4 movies
With DivX support, you are able to enjoy DivX encoded videos in the comfort of your living room. The DivX media format is an MPEG4-based video compression technology that enables you to save large files like movies, trailers and music videos on media like CD-R/RW, memory cards and DVD-video.

Zero Bright Dot Screen for Optimal Screen Quality
Enjoy highest-quality images that are free from annoying blank spots on the LCD screen. LCD displays commonly have imperfections, termed as 'bright dots' by the LCD industry. A limited number of bright dots were once considered an inevitable side effect of LCD mass production. With Philips' strict quality control procedures used in our Portable DVD Players, our LCD displays are produced with zero tolerance for bright dots. Philips Zero Bright Dot Policy guarantees optimal screen quality.

Dolby Digital for Ultimate Movie Experience
Because Dolby Digital, the world's leading digital multi-channel audio standards, make use of the way the human ear naturally processes sound, you experience superb quality surround sound audio with realistic spatial cues.

What's in the Box
DCP850 portable DVD player with iPod dock, 35-key remote control, AC/DC adaptor, 12-volt DC car outlet adaptor, 1 AV cable

Customer Reviews

Fantastic Player
I first purchased this portable player about 2 years ago. I absolutely love this player.

I first purchased this to take it on the road with me, and it sat mostly un-used for a long time. Then as I discovered the Divx support, and has since become one of my favorite players, even at home.

I convert most of my dvd's to avi's and Divx formats, and that way I can get 5-8 movies on a single layer dvd, or one movie on a CD. This player plays them great. I've even discovered, you can copy these avi's onto a SD memory card to keep from burning DVD's/ CD's and it will play them great, erase them from the SD card when I'm done. Not to mention you can carry a hand full of movies on an single SD chip.

The display folds flat for protection, will lift backward like the pictures show, and also spin around backwards and then will even lay flat from there, (atop the player). I've opened and closed mine so many times now, I do have a bit of a problem at times the display will flicker at certain spots upon opening. This is only sometimes, and to fix it I just open and close it again, and it goes away.


The player plays about all forms music, movies from DVD+-R,s CD's, CD/RW MP3's, and displays images like .jpg's. One thing rarely noted, I have played NTSC (North American dvd formats) and even PAL formated disk I've picked up over seas. It doesn't seem to care really, if it's a DVD it will play it. It is so nice to find a player that does this, and it should really matter that I purchased a DVD from anywhere, players should just play them and shut up about all this region garbage. This one does.

I'm getting ready to order a second one, just to keep handy should my other one quit, I'll have another handy.

It is really sad that companies like Apple want to require supporting equipment like this to 'license' it's compatibility. I really condemn Apple/iPod for this, it only leads to less products available and we all pay the price for it. If Apple would spend a little more resources improving it's products, like iTunes and QuickTime Player which are just horrid, instead of hassling companies for an extra buck, then Apple's products and everyone else's would be better.

For those that complain about compatibility with newer Ipods, everyone should note, this player has a Video Out connection, AND a video IN connection. iPods that have a video out connection, can use the cable to hook up to the players Video In connection. True, it is not the handy docking station type setup that the older iPod's use, but still functional.

The only thing I don't really like, is the sensor for the remote control, is located just under the video screen. Why is this bad? When using at home, or using the Video Out connection to feed a TV for example, and you don't need to use or see the player's built in screen, which can be flipped down, but then you can't use the remote control.

I too was a little leery of the built in battery. However my player will still will play an entire dvd movie and still have some battery life to spare, not a great amount, but some. I'd say right now, I'm getting about 2 1/2 hours when playing a dvd, a little more if using the SD memory chip and external speakers.

Poor build quality
While the iPod integration (if you have an older iPod) is really nice, the unit itself has a very grainy, low-resolution screen and the build quality is very poor. Ours is literally falling apart (at the swivel hinge) and started doing so pretty early on in its life. It's a shame, since we have an older Philips 7" DVD player which not only looks better, it was made like a tank and it still good as new. This one, however, will need to be replaced soon. I would avoid this and all future Philips models, no matter how compelling the feature list is.

Doesn't support iPod Classic... loved the features though
The product was good.. played DVD's nicely and even enjoyed the fact that the screen is turnable so as to turn it into a tablet style player. The only draw back is that it does not support iPod classic which is the purpose I had for purchasing it. I returned it and bought an iLuv model that works with the iPod classic model. Time for Philips to make an upgrade!