Handling most media formats as well as full home-theater duty, the slim DVB312 from Zenith is a great choice for budget-minded audio- and video-loving technophiles and anyone looking to invest in a DVD player designed to be cutting edge for some time to come. Play MP3 and WMA CDs, homemade DVDs, JPEG image CDs–and, of course, commercial DVDs–all will look and sound great on a standard or high-resolution TV. Whether your living room is currently home to an HDTV or you’re merely thinking of “someday,” the DVB312 delivers the full potential of DVDs. Progressive scanning, referred to as 480p for the number of horizontal lines that compose the video image, creates a picture using twice the scan lines of a conventional DVD picture, giving you higher resolution and sharper images while eliminating nearly all motion artifacts. Top-of-the-line component-video outputs help minimize digital and line-scan artifacts on compatible advanced televisions, while composite- and S-video outputs bring compatibility with nearly any television. A single set of left/right analog-audio outputs channel audio to Dolby Pro Logic receivers and stereo televisions. Both Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1-channel surround-sound signals can be routed through the player’s coaxial digital-audio output for direct connection to a full-featured audio/video receiver. The players onboard 96 kHz/24-bit digital-to-analog audio converter ensures optimum decoding of all disc formats. If you don’t have a surround receiver or six-channel speaker setup, you can still make every movie night the ultimate experience: the player simulates surround sound through two speakers (even the stereo speakers on your TV). Other features include CD-ROM-upgradeable firmware (for compatibility with future formats and features), full-motion picture zoom (4x, 16x), random and repeat playback, closed-caption support, and accommodation for interactive story (and multi-story) DVD programs. What’s in the Box DVD player, S-v (more…)
5.0 out of 5 stars
Works Fine
Bought this DVD Player many years ago and it’s still going strong. It is Progressive scan, but not upconverting.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Strikingly Zenith
I recommend this Zenith DVD player. It may not be the best player, but for the price and the features it provides, it’s worth your blood, sweat, and tears.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Slim-Design, Big Fat Disappointment
This unit quickly developed a problem of freezing in mid-DVDs. There’d be a short freeze of a few seconds, then another, frequency increasing.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good buy
This is the first Dvd player I have bought I can play Dvd’s on my computer but wanted a more relaxing way to watch them.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Well, at least it has progressive scan
I got this player to upgrade my old DVD player and get beautiful
progressive scan capability. The support for MP3/JPG/DVD-R
was an extra bonus–I hoped.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Could have been good…
This DVD player has real problems synching audio and video. We have to restart every DVD we play due to the problems with audio synching.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Works for me
It works. It’s super skinny and fits under the VCR. It plays all sorts of discs including DVDs and JPG CDs and CDA CDs. It has a cool fully adjustable zoom feature.
5.0 out of 5 stars
COOL DVD zenith player
cool DVD PLAYER awsome to the max i likehow i am able to zoom in on the daytime invisible stealth area 51 ideas on the vanish car ideas that the put in jets and tringle kind…
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Great Buy!
I bought this DVD player recently, and I love it! I haven’t had any major problems with this player, and I loved the price.
4.0 out of 5 stars
slim, sweet, good deal
got this for around $65 and it is a dream, easy to cue. i also “lost” the remote & was able to use one of those universal ones for a couple days then broke down…