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Samsung Wins Again -  Samsung DVD 709 DVD Player
Samsung DVD 709 

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Samsung Wins Again (Samsung DVD 709)

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Samsung DVD 709

Date: 19/05/01 (25 review reads)
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Advantages: picture quality, big cache

Disadvantages: SCART16 only

Samsung wins again; the best DVD player in history. Samsung's quality range of monitors has blown us sky-high with amazement as picture quality is so superb, and now they have turned to DVD! With Samsung quality and reliable Sony televisions plugged into the back of them, these DVD players are a marvel! And whilst youre on the subject, why not check out www.samsung.com. Specs are: Video Compression
Tech MPEG-2 MPEG-1 Analog

Number of Pixels 720 X 480 352 X 240

Vertical Resolution Max 500 Lines Max 240 Lines Approx.. 420 Lines

Compression
Rate 1 / 40 1 / 140 Analog

Bit Rate Max 9.8Mbps (Variable) 1.15Mbps (Fixed)

Aspect Ratio 16:9 / 4:3 4 : 3 4 : 3

Audio Audio max 8 streams 2ch stereo 2 Analog ch.2 Digital ch.(16bit 44.1khz)or1 Analog ch.1 Stream of Dolby Digital Ch. (16bit 44.1khz)

Recording
Method Dolby Digital Linear PCM MPEG-1 Layer 2

Bit Rate 448Kbps 6.144Mbps 224Kbps (Fixed)

Channel 5.1Ch 8Ch 2 Channel Only

Sampling Frequency 48KHz 16,20,24bit
48, 96KHz; 16bit, 44.1KHz


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Overall rating: Useful

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Slim+Lee

- 20/05/01

You could do with adding some personal opinion into this, e.g your experience of the player, the picture quality, what the features actually do etc...

If you update it then email me and i'll come back and re-read it. Lee
GR-Design

- 20/05/01

I've given you an SU rating because it just looks like you have copied this out of the specifications at the back of the manual!
The+Duke

- 19/05/01

This opinion is meaningless to me - simply a mass of technical figures. Could you explain some of these things in plain English please?

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