This DVD Player is also an MP3 player, CD player and Digital Photo Viewer!
Written: Dec 01 '02 (Updated Jan 27 '03)
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Pros: You can play DVD movies, Audio CD, Video CD, MP3 files and view Photos!
Cons: Remote buttons are too small!
The Bottom Line: This is an excellent DVD player with features that many others just dream of! Quality, features and price, it is great!
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| surferdude7's Full Review: Mitsubishi DD-6030 DVD Player |
The Mitsubishi DD-6030 DVD Player is a Progressive Scan DVD player that plays DVDs, Audio CDs, Video CDs, MP3 files and can be used to view your Digital Photos. A progressive DVD player gives you better picture quality if you have a TV that is progressive.
Features
The Mitsubishi DD-6030 can play the regular size DVD & CD in the 12 cm size and the smaller 8 cm size. It plays DVD video, Digital Video CDs and Audio CDs in regular format or MP3 format.
You can zoom in a picture and move around the screen to zoom in at what you wish. Zooming in a little gives you a fair picture but zooming to far makes it very grainy.
You can select different camera angles if the DVD allows it, turn on or off subtitles, fast forward/backward and reverse in various speeds and select the chapters you wish.
This player has all of the features found in most players today plus some!
The Remote
The remote is black in color and made for the DVD player only. The buttons are small and rather close to each other making it possible to hit two buttons at once.
As many buttons as there is on this remote you would think it is made to control other devices but all button are used to get the most out of the DVD player.
The remote has a nice V-Remote control button at the bottom bringing up a small menu anytime you wish to control the picture. The V-Remote is considered the graphics control! From here you can check the current title/track number, current chapter number, elapsed time, audio settings, subtitle settings, angle settings and much more.
At the top of the remote is a NAVI button for navigation through all the setups needed for the player.
You can customize the remote for your preferences.
The Connections
The manual is very descriptive with illustrations that are easy to understand. There are no front inputs on this unit.
In the back is a switch that you set on I (I for Interlace) if you have a regular TV and P (P for Progressive)if your TV will show progressive video.
The connections are simple and easy! For video you have three types of connections to choose from, an RCA output, an S-video output and a component video out that requires a special three-wire component cable. Component is your best video source, S-video is next and the RCA connection is last.
For audio you also have three outputs, two RCA jacks for left and right speakers, a coaxial and optical output. Coaxial needs a special digital coaxial cable and optical needs a fiber optics cable. Both Optical and Coaxial are excellent connections for your receiver in a 5.1, 6.1 of 7.1 system.
The Digital Photo Viewer
OK first of all you cannot just stick any CD in there with photos on it in the JPEG format. The manual says it is compatible with Fuji Color CD, Kodak Pictures CD, Noritus QSS DC and Canon.
I did have a Kodak CD and the pictures were taken from a 35mm camera and showed up fair. So I copied all of the contents from the CD to my hard drive and in the Pictures directory I deleted the photos. Now Kodak Picture CDs have a size limit of 1500 x 1000 for the DVD player and all of my digital photos are taken at 2048 x 1536. So I took a program, resized all my digital photos to the 1500 x 1000 size and placed them in the directory of pictures. Now I burned a new CD with all of the Kodak contents and my photos in their pictures directory. YES, I can view some beautiful digital photos on my new 73 inch Mitsubishi TV now. My digital photos looked really great on the big screen, a lot better than the original 35mm prints that were on it.
All you do is place the CD in the player and in a couple of minutes a menu and a thumbnail screen come up. Now the way I made the CD no images would show up in the thumbnails but when you clicked on them to enlarge them a beautiful photo would appear. You can go forwards and backwards through the menu to view the photos or my favorite is to set it up as a slide show and let it automatically change photos every few seconds depending on the seconds you setup.
MP3
Just place in a CD-R disc with your MP3 files on it and it will start playing automatically. You can view on screen who the artist is and use the up and down arrows for making your selection on or off screen.
You can set the player to play them in a row, shuffle them or repeat.
Mitsubishi recommends not using a CD-RW disc and it is limited to a 650MB/74 minute disc. Now I have been using the 700MB /80 minutes discs without any problems.
I have my MP3 files listed in different directories by each artist being the directories. It will automatically play them in the order of the directories without showing the directories.
With the Mp3 format you can have up to 10 hours of music on one CD.
Overall
I wasn’t in any hurry to buy a progressive DVD player since our one-year-old RCA DVD player was doing an excellent job. So we were out in the stores looking at progressive DVD players to get and idea of cost and maybe a bargain. It seems like a year ago a progressive DVD player would run you in the $300 plus range, we were shocked to find so many under $200. Our new TV is a Mitsubishi and we thought it would be nice to have the same DVD brand, wow was we surprised to find this one on sale for $159.
This is a very impressive DVD player with Progressive Scan with many feature I thought wasn’t possible for the price.
My digital photos look pretty good with it, MP3 file sound beautiful with it and the picture quality on a movie is excellent.
I highly recommend the Mitsubishi DD-6030 DVD Player for quality, features and price.
Read about my Mitsubishi 73 inch HD-Upgradeable Television
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Recommended:
Yes
Amount Paid (US$): 159
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