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7.2 out of 10

Philips PET830

First seen: 25 april 2007

Information found in: from 21 sources in 14 countries.
  • User Score (11)
    8.3 8.3 from 11 reviewers
  • Expert Score (2)
    7.5 7.5 from 2 reviewers
  • Features (2)
    7.6 7.6 from 2 reviewers
  • Ease of use (3)
    6.3 6.3 from 3 reviewers
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Pros & Cons

  • highly portable viewing device, big screen, all round good performance, excellent buy, picture is absolutely fantastic
  • average battery life, and no resume function

The magic of movies and music comes to life on the tablet-style Philips PET830 Portable DVD Player with 8.5” LCD display. Plus Zero Bright Dot™ ensures optimal screen quality. Comes with Smart Car Mount and USB connector.

  • Play DVD/DivX® & MPEG4
  • Play MP3/WMA-CD, CD and CD…
  • Share picture CD (JPEG)

Manufacturer's Specs

Release Date

  • First seen
    25 April 2007

Philips PET830

Tablet-style portable DVD player is what Philips PET830 about. It comes with built-in speaker and features an 8.5-inch diagonal sized screen with LCD TFT display type. Its resolution that comes in 16:9 widescreen format sets at 480(w) x 234(H) x 3(RGB). The brightness of the image produced is at 200 cd/m² and has the effective viewing area of 187.2 x 105.3. Its pixel pitch is at 0.13(W) x 0.45(H). The weight of the portable DVD player is 0.97kg with the dimension of 31mm x 170mm x 255…

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Philips PET830

Tablet-style portable DVD player is what Philips PET830 about. It comes with built-in speaker and features an 8.5-inch diagonal sized screen with LCD TFT display type. Its resolution that comes in 16:9 widescreen format sets at 480(w) x 234(H) x 3(RGB). The brightness of the image produced is at 200 cd/m² and has the effective viewing area of 187.2 x 105.3. Its pixel pitch is at 0.13(W) x 0.45(H). The weight of the portable DVD player is 0.97kg with the dimension of 31mm x 170mm x 255mm. The playback media on its video aspect that the player supports include DVD, Picture CD, SVCD, VCD, DVD-R/-RW, MP3-CD, CD-R/-RW, WMA and DVD+R/+RW. It uses PAL and NTSC video disc playback system. On its audio properties, its output power of the built-in speaker sets at 250mW RMS whereas its earphone is at 10mW RMS. Dolby Digital, WMA and MP3 are among the compression format of the player. The supported file systems of the machine are ISO-9660 and Jolliet. USB connectivity is offered with the player besides two 3.5mm stereo headphone jacks.

Features

One of the features that the Philips PET830 packed with is Zero Bright Dot. It works on the quality and clarity of the image displayed. Bright dot is referred to imperfection on the LCD display which commonly occurs. With such technology, images are said to be free from blank spots on the screen. As the player provides USB connection, users are able to plug their USB devices that contain images and music to the player’s USB connector so that it can be viewed and shared by others. The PET830 package comes together with Smart Car Mount which targets on the users who are always on the go where player is usable in the car with safety ensured. As DivX is supported, users get to enjoy movies that are encoded in such format that at their comfort.

Additional Features

  • Shock proof
  • Battery charging indication
  • Up to 3 hours playback with built-in battery
  • On-screen display

Accessories

  • Protective Pouch
  • Smart Car Mount
  • AC/DC adapter
  • AV cables
  • AY5507 slim remote control
  • User manual
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  1. Philips PET830 portable DVD player

    Reviewer: Pocket Lint
    4 June 2008
    Overall 7
    7.0
     

    The Philips PET830 Portable DVD player can handle a wide variety of formats, either from disc of USB memory stick and while the battery life isn't as good as we'd like, it's more than usable, making this an enjoyable device to use. Read more

  2. Reviewer: What Hi-Fi?
    23 June 2009
    Overall 8
    8.0
     

    Impressive large-screen picture and good sound. Read more

  1. Reviewer: Amazon Reviewer, CompareStorePrices
    9 December 2008
    Overall 10
    10
     

    This is an amazing portable DVD player. I dont have any problems with the screen resolution as its been fine with most of my DivX avi files that i have played on it. I was looking for more information on PET 830 and PET 831 and both of them are of the exact specification except that PET830 has a USB port and the PET831 has an SD/MMC slot. If you want both of them, go for the PET1030 or the PET1031 models. Read more

  2. Anonymous verified purchaser , “Absolutely fantastic”

    Reviewer: Reevoo
    11 July 2009
    Overall 10
    10
     

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  3. Philips PET830: very good

    Reviewer: Dooyoo
    20 September 2007
    Overall 9
    8.6
    Features 8
    8.0
    Ease of use 8
    8.0
     

    I speak yourselves today of this reader philips. And 'a reader that has my sister, I I have of it an economical piu. Bè like functionality is like to the mine like very better aesthetics. Innanzitto it is not opened to hinge safeguarding the space but is very thin and practical, surely to read and comfortable to transport. Aesthetic it is also very attractive and not from the idea of an economical plastic of fact device. We pass to the functions. It is provided of every... Read more

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