Sony DVPF21 DVD Player
Sony DVP-F21 - Stylish Overpriced DVD Player
The Sony DVP-F21 is a vertical wall-mountable DVD player. The most important features that separate it from other DVD players are stylish design, small size, ability to play discs in vertical position and slot loading mechanism. <br />The player is indeed stylish and compact, but you have to pay for it - it costs $100 more than the DVD players of \\"normal\\" design. Looks and vertical position aside, this is a DVD player with CD-R and CD-RW playback (with twin-laser pickup). <br />The player can be placed horizontally or vertically on the included stand. The DVD-Video and CD-Audio playback is supplemented by ability to play VideoCD (352x240 resolution MPEG-1 encoding). <br />The player features Sony's usual cool-sounding features like Precision Drive 2, Dynamic Tilt Compensation, Block Noise Reduction, SmoothScan and SmoothSlow. Although all this sounds cool, Panasonic RV31 produces slightly better picture quality without the use of cool names (and also plays MP3s) for [price]less. <br />The player (as virtually all other DVD players on the market) has virtual surround sound, parental control. The optical digital audio out can be connected to a Dolby Digital or DTS decoder. <br />The player can display DVD- and CD-Text information, has A-B repeat, programmed play, shuffle, instant replay function, resume. The angle select, subtitle- and language-select functions are also present. <br />The player only has 3 fast scan speeds and 2 slow scan speeds (Panasonic DVD players have 5 fast and 5 slow speeds). The F21 has a screen saver and you can also select a background for the stop mode. <br />The dynamic range can be compressed for the night listening. <br />Remote Control <br />The supplied remote control can control several brands of TVs in addition to this player. <br />Bottom Line <br />The F21 is a stylish compact overpriced DVD player. When I say \\"overpriced\\", I mean it is overpriced for the functionality you get. But if the style is worth the extra [price]for you, itis difficult to find a more stylish DVD player.