BEFORE WE GET DOWN TO THE REVIEW FOR ONIDA DFX-7100
LET US KNOW AS TO WHAT ACTUALLY A DVD IS?
DVD STANDS FOR – DIGITAL VERSATILE DISK
AND NOT DIGITAL VIDEO DISK
It wasn’t really that long ago that VHS tapes dominated the home video market, but now, DVDs have all but wiped them out completely. Going from tape to disc gave the home theater experience a major upgrade, and ushered in an era of feature-packed special edition home video. A DVD is very similar to a CD, but it has a much larger data capacity. A standard DVD holds about seven times more data than a CD does. This huge capacity means that a DVD has enough room to store a full-length, MPEG-2-encoded movie, as well as a lot of other information.
Here are the typical contents of a DVD movie:
Up to 133 minutes of high-resolution video, in letterbox or pan-and-scan format, with 720 dots of horizontal resolution (The video compression ratio is typically 40:1 using MPEG-2 compression.)
Soundtrack presented in up to eight languages using 5.1 channels Dolby digital surround sound
Subtitles in up to 32 languages
DVD can also be used to store almost eight hours of CD-quality music per side.
The format offers many advantages over VHS tapes:
DVD picture quality is better, and many DVDs have Dolby Digital or DTS sound, which is much closer to the sound you experience in a movie theater.
Many DVD movies have an on-screen index, where the creator of the DVD has labeled many of the significant parts of the movie, sometimes with a picture. With your remote, if you select the part of the movie you want to view, the DVD player will take you right to that part, with no need to rewind or fast-forward.
DVD players are compatible with audio CDs.
Some DVD movies have both the letterbox format, which fits wide-screen TVs, and the standard TV size format, so you can choose which way you want to watch the movie.
DVD movies may have several soundtracks on them, and they may provide subtitles in different languages. Foreign movies may give you the choice between the version dubbed into your language, or the original soundtrack with subtitles in your language.
Here is a list of the capacities of different forms of DVDs:
Single-sided/single-layer 4.38 GB 2 hours
Single-sided/double-layer 7.95 GB 4 hours
Double-sided/single-layer 8.75 GB 4.5 hours
Double-sided/double-layer 15.9 GB Over 8 hours
You may be wondering why the capacity of a DVD doesn’t double when you add a whole second layer to the disc. This is because when a disc is made with two layers, the pits have to be a little longer, on both layers, than when a single layer is used. This helps to avoid interference between the layers, which would cause errors when the disc is played If an average DVD movie were uncompressed, it would take at least a year to download it over a normal phone line.
Even though its storage capacity is huge, the uncompressed video data of a full-length movie would never fit on a DVD. In order to fit a movie on a DVD, you need video compression. A group called the Motion Picture Experts Group (MPEG) establishes the standards for compressing moving pictures.
When movies are put onto DVDs, they are encoded in MPEG-2 format and then stored on the disc. This compression format is a widely accepted international standard. Your DVD player contains an MPEG-2 decoder, which can uncompress this data as quickly as you can watch it.
NOW LET US GET TO KNOW ABOUT THE ONIDA DFX-7100 DVD PLAYER
Often, due to bad handling, DVDs get scratched, leading to loss of audio and video information.
But Onida’s in-built Superior Scratch Error Correction Technology with increased intelligence for super accurate reading of scratched–discs restores and plays disc with ease.
With the Lens Mechanism and disc Reading Algorithm working in tandem, it ensures continuous playback of scratched discs without long skips and mosaic patterns.
The Onida DVD Players come with Progressive scan feature. The benefits of Progressive scan are flicker free images with high clarity as it scans 60 frames per second as compared to normal scanning of 30 frames per second, So if your display supports progressive scan, the Onida DVD Players will help provide sharper, clearer and flicker free image. And there’s more. Thanks to 5.1 Theatre Surround Out you can directly connect separate channel outputs (front left and right, rear left and right, center and woofer) to the AV receiver for the ultimate theatre surround experience while playing Dolby Digital discs.
So go ahead, get an Onida DVD Player and enjoy the uninterrupted show.
The player comes with one year Warranty, and all the necessary cords & accessories required.
The sound and picture quality of the player is fantastic…The Dolby Digital Decoder that is Built in the system was able to decode the DVD Movies in all the 6 channels just the right way the Director of the movie has wanted the movie to sound… Being an Audiophile sort I always experiment with my systems and check the capabilities and limits of my player. After watching MI-2 at INOX, I tried the same DVD on my Onida DVD and I am absolutely satisfied with the Channel separation and Frequency Limits of the Player. It had delivered 99% of what I had watched in the INOX FORUM
Technical Specifications for Onida DFX-7100
FEATURES
Superior Error Correction Technology
5.1 Theatre Surround Out
MPEG format (2:4)
Progressive Scan
Compatible Disc Types
DVD Video, VCD Audio, DVD + - R/RW, CD + - R/RW, JPEG KODAK PICTURE CD, MP3, SVCD
CONNECTIONS
Composite Video
Component Video
S-Video
Coaxial Audio Output
Optical Audio out
Video 10 Bit Video DAC, 16:9/4:3 PS/4:3 LB
Capable of playing PAL/NTSC/Multi
Audio 24 Bit Audio DAC
DTS Digital out
Decoders Dolby Digital
Display type - VFD,
Loader Type - Slim,
OSD Languages – English
GENERAL FUNCTIONS
Fast Motion (Fwd/Rew Play) 2x, 4x, 8x, 16x, 32x
Slow Motion (Fwd/Rew Play) 1/2x, 1/4x, 1/8x, 1/16x#
Zoom Mode 2x, 3x, 4x & 1/2, 1/3, 1/4
Repeat Mode AII, A-B (repeat only), Chapter repeat and title repeat
Sub title languages 32 Max
Audio Sound Track Languages 8 Max
Multi Camera Angle 9 Max
Shuffle, Program, Parental Lock, Screensaver, Search/Skip
Power and Measurements
Power Requirements and Consumption AC 110-240, 50-60Hz & 15W
Set Dimensions (WDH) 43026038
Net Weight 2.5 Kgs
So, whatever negative the others are writing… just turn your Deaf Ear to them…
Coz… I have seen the set performing, I own it, and without any flaws the set is performing absolutely fantastic for the last 11 months at the rate of approximately 25 movies a month…
And at this price it’s a steal...
you all wont believe, I churn out the maximum that one can get out of the system…
ONIDA IS ACTUALLY NEIGHBOUR’S ENVY … OWNER’S PRIDE
AND NOW… IT IS NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH….
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WRITTEN & COMPILED BY…
NILABJA SARKAR