Product Description

Slim Design DVD Video Player featuring PAL playback on NTSC TV, Multi-Format Playback and Digital Still (JPEG) Slideshow with Music

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #65586 in Consumer Electronics
• Color: Black
• Brand: JVC
• Model: XVN330B
• Dimensions: 3.13" h x 16.98" w x 10.38" l, 8.20 pounds

Features

• Progressive Scan Output
• Dolby Digital/DTS Digital Outputs
• Component Video Output
• Digital Still (JPEG) Slideshow with Music
• Pal playback on NTSC TV

Amazon.com Product Description
Keep up with the latest advances in digital entertainment with the slim-profile JVC XVN330B multi-format DVD player (in black), which offers JVCÕs Digital Direct Progressive Scan output (via the component video output), 192kHz/24-bit audio D/A converter, 10-bit/54MHz video D/A converter, Express Play Start for fast disc start up, and a high resolution graphical interface. It's compatible with a wide range of disc and digital formats, including DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, CD-R/RW, VCD/SVCD, MP3, and JPEG.

The Video Fine Processor feature offers 7 parameters, 2 presets and 2 manual settings for the ultimate in personalization. During still image (JPEG) playback you can select from the 11 visual effects to enhance your slide show or select an image and save it to the player as a custom start up. And with the 10-disc memory feature, you can bookmark a spot and easily return to that scene when you have time. Other features include Track Adjust for noise-free playback of burned discs, one-touch replay, and zoom play. It offers the following connection options:

• Composite AV (RCA): 1 out
• S-Video: 1 out
• Component video: 1 out
• Audio output: 1 coaxial digital out

What's in the Box
DVD player, remote control (with batteries), A/V cable, printed operating instructions

Customer Reviews

Nice Inexpensive Player with A Poor Manual
I bought this to replace a failed DVD player to tide us over until the HDDVD, BlueRay issue settles out. $55 at a local video store made it pretty painless. It seems to work nicely. Picture looks better than the old Toshiba. It has a host of functions which would be okay if the manual and remote weren't so poor. The salesman assured me that it would output either interlaced or progressive scan but it's not mentioned in the manual. The remote has a ton of very tiny buttons, one of which is multiple function labeled both VFP (Video Fine Processin which lets you adjust picture tone) and I/P which I finally guessed to be Interlace/Progressive. The manual completely ignores what it means or how it's used. After much frustration it seems that switching between interlace & progressive requires you to press & hold the button for a couple seconds while VFP requires a quick press & release. This is a real trap for the unwary that absolutely should have been covered in the manual. Hold this button down a little too long with a non progressive scan TV and the picture disappears with no clue as to why. I was close to assuming the player had failed before figuring this out.

The remote is very small with close spaced tiny buttons making it difficult to use and the functions are not user friendly.

If you're willing to overlook the poor manual & remote, it does produce a nice picture for a small investment.

Good enough
DVD is old tech nowadays. Pretty much any DVD player is going to give you a decent picture and sound and have lots of features (MP3, pictures, etc.). The real difference between cheap ones and more expensive ones is the build quality. This one has a cheap plastic disc tray that can vibrate annoyingly. I've had two of these players (had to return one due to another malfunction) and they both do it. You can stop the vibrating just by putting your finger on the tray door, but obviously that's not something you should have to do. The display doesn't show as much as it could; for instance, it shows elapsed time but not the current chapter at the same time. This is not of much concern to me, but be aware of its limited capabilities. Note that this player does NOT have an optical digital audio output, as many DVD players do. Only coax digital (in addition to the standard RCA audio outputs), which again, is good enough for me. No one who would buy a sub-$100 DVD player could tell (or should care about) the difference between the audio from an optical cable and a coax cable.

On the other hand, it looks nice, it's really compact, I love the simplicity, and it matches my JVC receiver and TV. The picture quality and color are good. My 4 star rating is dependent on the reoccurrence of the vibration, but I'm hopeful that it won't happen consistently.

Great buy for the money!
Simple, easy to use and an excellent price. Sleek & good looking.
I still havenot learned what all this player can do so it would be helpful to have a better user's manual.