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- Reviewed on: 09/13/2001
Eye-jammy
A pair of 1.5-inch LCD screens, one for each eye, conveys the illusion of a large-screen TV right in front of you. The displays work together when set at a 4:3 aspect ratio, and when toggled to wide-screen mode, the image is letterboxed over the two screens. So long as you have a video source, you can connect via composite or S-Video inputs for a surprisingly crisp image. Heck, you can even hook this device directly into your PC via a 15-pin VGA monitor cable.
The display--the main reason you'd want these goggles in the first place--works better than expected. The colors will occasionally be off, especially with digital images, such as those in Toy Story 2, but you can easily tweak all the video options via an onscreen menu system. Making adjustments is a simple, straightforward process, but if you fail to save your settings, you'll need to change everything the next time you use the headset.
Unfortunately, the audio playback provided by the FMD-700 is its biggest drawback. A tiny pair of ear-bud headphones are built into the frame, but they are uncomfortable and do a poor job of giving you home-theater audio to properly match the display. The tiny buds just can't handle the bass response, and they produce a headache-inducing hiss at higher volumes. You can tweak the audio settings, but for some movies, such as Terminator 2: Judgment Day, this didn't make a lick of difference. There is an external audio port if you want to use a separate set of headphones, but wearing headphones over the device is not only pretty dang uncomfortable, it makes you look more wired than C-3PO. Continue reading
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