Watch all your favourite DVD movies come to life like never before with Precision Cinema Progressive (PCP) technology. Automatically upscaling all SD content on DVDs (576i) to Full HD 1080p levels (720p/1080i/1080p), PCP delivers high picture quality with minimal flicker and noise. Furthermore, as the pictures generated are progressive and not interlaced, they possess twice the amount of scanning lines and have a higher resolution, which makes everything looks better.
12bit/108MHz V-Dac
For Progressive Scan, data is converted using a high-end 12bit/108MHz V-Dac. This allows Progressive Scan to reproduce superb Quality video with very low signal to noise ratio.
Child Lock
Parents are able to block up to 100 channels are not suitable for their children.
Component Output
The component Output function converts digital component DVD video signals to analogue, changing only the level. This allows you to enjoy excellent picture quality by connecting the player to a television or monitor equipment with a component video input.
Control Menu
Graphical user interfaces, like the new Control Bar or Control Menu, let you enter, change and verify settings for a variety of functions, all with one hand on the remote commander. Control Bar provides easy access to all features without covering the action on the screen.
Custom Parental Control
Prevent your children from viewing violent or inappropriate movies by adding a 4-digit identification code.
DivX® is the brand name of the world's most popular video compression technology. At its core, DivX is a codec (short for compression/decompression) - a piece of software that compresses video from virtually any source down to a size that is transportable over the Internet without reducing the original video's visual quality.
MP3
Sony brings all Audio to the Internet Age with this system compatible with MP3 digital music files. Now you can play all the tunes you have downloaded from the web, along with your favorite MD’s or CD’s.
Multi Disc Resume (6Disc)
Stop a movie in the middle, play some music or another movie, and return to where you stopped just by pushing play. This feature remembers the resume point for 6 discs or for 40 discs, depending on the player.
Using twice the number of scanning lines compared to the more common interlaced format, Progressive Scan is able to accurately reproduce the naturalness of rocks, water and even the texture of skin. Clearly notice the difference on a large-screen TV, where scanning lines from interlaced scanning are quite apparent.
Precision Drive Pro
Conventional auto tracking system check tracking once you press play, but Sony’s digital auto Tracking System uses an 8-bit micro processor to continuously monitor and maintain optimum tracking to assure superior picture and sound quality.
Quick Setup
Easy on-screen instructions guide you through setup for language, subtitles, menu display, screen size and even sound effects, which preciously proved difficult and time consuming.
Title Chapter Viewer
An index display of the opening scene for each chapter or title allows instant access to a specific scene.
Some DVD-RW/-R/+RW/+R, CD-RW/-R discs will not play due to recording quality, physical condition of the disc, or the characteristic of the recording device and authoring software.
Some DVD+RW/+R discs will not play due to recording quality, physical condition of the disc, or the characteristic of the recording device and authoring software.
Some DVD-RW/-R/+RW/+R, CD-RW/-R discs will not play due to recording quality, physical condition of the disc, or the characteristic of the recording device and authoring software.
DVD Video
Digital Versatile Disc (DVD), the next generation of optical disc storage technology, which is bigger and faster CD that can hold cinema-like video, better-than-CD audio, VCD and computer data.
It's easy to append/edit data on DVD media, even after it has been recorded* for seamless backup. And you can utilise write-once formats when you need to protect your data from being erased, or when compatibility is extremely important for exchanging and distributing data.
Dolby Digital
Formerly know as AC-3. Dolby Digital has five separate sound channels plus one or low frequencies (bass). The result is a highly effective and dramatic surround system with sound quality better than many cinemas. Dolby Digital requires a digital source such as DVD or AC-3 encoded laserdiscs.
DivX® is the brand name of the world's most popular video compression technology. At its core, DivX is a codec (short for compression/decompression) - a piece of software that compresses video from virtually any source down to a size that is transportable over the Internet without reducing the original video's visual quality.
Video CD
This allows the Unit to play Video CDs.
Picture Memory
The player can store one scene in memory for both the background and startup screen.
Picture Navigation
Enjoy movies the way you want, with Angle Viewer, Title/Chapter Viewer and Strobe Playback.