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5 Reviews for Panasonic LS80EB-K '8.5" Portable DVD Player - Black
Panasonic have finally lost the plot! - 08 Mar 2008
0 out of 0 found this review helpful.
Recently bought this portable DVD player as a replacement for a broken earlier Panasonic model.
I'd read reviews concerning the picture quality, but it wasn't until I actually saw it for myself that I was shocked by just how awful it truely was! Highlights were completely blown out, with brightness adjustments not really making any difference and colour balance completely artificial. But the nail in the coffin is the dreadful resolution! The picture is just pure 'blocks', with text virtually unreadable, even of the DVD players own menu system.
I could find out no information, either via here, anywhere else on the web, or even Panasonic's own website, regarding the actual picture resolution - so I phoned Panasonic customer services. They informed me that the actual screen resolution was only 160 x 120, and to put that into perspective, similar models by Philips and Sony are 800 x 480!!!.
Please, please, please do not waste your money on this awful player. I've always been a been Panasonic purchaser, but over the last few years, they have downgraded the quality of their products to the point that they are no longer in the same league as the likes of Sony, more like Goodmans or worse.
FYI - I replaced the Panasonic with a slightly smaller Sony (DVP-FX720), which has a much better screen resolution, colour balance and overall build quality.
A good buy providing you pay about £170 - 27 Dec 2007
0 out of 0 found this review helpful.
With the exception of the overhyped battery life quoted by Panasonic, I do not agree with the reviews that I have read for the following reasons:
1.The screen displays a very good picture and produces good quality sound without distortion at a reasonable volume. This unit is better than a Toshiba portable unit that I owned previously.
2.The build quality is good enough although it is made of plastic.
3.The operation of the unit is extremely easy with well laid out controls.
I do not object either to the absence of a remote control unit, as they are fiddly to use or a bag to house the unit (better to buy your own).However, I do think Panasonic should have included: contrast control, a lock to keep the unit properly closed, and an SD card reader. Its for this reason, I award it three stars only.
waste of time - 26 Dec 2007
6 out of 7 found this review helpful.
Buying this is a waste of time.The screen image is very poor and Panasonic are just lying about the battery life.
After a full nights charge and using earphones it would not even finish a 2 hour film.
We already have have a panasonic dvd/harddrive and an older dvd player which are great.....this certainly is not!
sorry i bought one - 15 Dec 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful.
well i really am sorry i paid over the odds at £225.00p for the panasonic name but it fall well below and battery life is says 6 hours which was i main reason i needed a long playing time for when i on an aircraft as the flight can be 5 hrs or more but this unless you drop the brightness down to what it say you do get 5 hors ish but cant really see the picture so on normal use your lucky to get hr and half playing time .........so i'd say keep away unless you want to buy another higher power battery of which i have just done ...........cheer
A seriously poor portable DVD player - 19 Nov 2007
16 out of 16 found this review helpful.
When my old Polaroid portable DVD player - which had served me fantastically for a couple of years after being purchased for less than £130 - finally conked out, I decided, in buying a replacement, to go with a reliable trusted brand, and one of the more expensive models on the market with the Panasonic LS80. With a company like Panasonic, the six hours battery life advertised on the box, and an 8.5 inch screen (my old Polaroid was a mere 8) to enhance my viewing pleasure I couldn't go wrong. Could I?
My first impressions weren't good. Pretty much all portable DVD players have plastic exteriors, but this one managed to seem particularly cheap and tacky - the plastic so feeble that you felt you were holding a toy rather than a piece of electronic equipment. The controls were fiddly too - the chapter skip and fast-search are accessed by the same buttons (you them down to search). Even the volume was controlled by buttons rather a wheel. And it doesn't even come with a remote control. I also found it irritating that you can't swivel the screen, even though it has the cheek to have the words "FREE STYLE VIEWING" beneath it!
Then I popped a DVD in the player, turned it on, and found that I could barely read the piracy warning. Then I could barely read the menu screen. Then I could barely read the opening credits. The picture quality is simply dire. It's so blocky and grainy that text of any kind is genuinely hard to read. Furthermore there is a washed-out lifelessness to the picture that makes viewing a rather depressing experience on several levels. It's possibly just about adequate if you watch from some distance away.
As for the six-hour battery life, what a joke. It's the standard two and a half hours. In the instruction manual it explains that it's only six hours with the headphones plugged in and LCD level turned down to -5 (the norm is +5). I don't even want to think about what the picture quality would be like on -5.
I'm trying to think of some plusses but frankly I can't. In the manual it frequently mentions, with smug complacency, your "enjoying" the unit - "enjoying in the car", "enjoying with headphones" etc. Personally I really enjoyed taking it back and getting a full refund.