Audiovox D1700

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The good: Decent built-in speakers; good battery life; easy-to-navigate button interface; car power adapter and USB charger included.

The bad: A bit bulky; picture quality could be better; lackluster remote.

The bottom line: The step-up model to the DV1680, this portable DVD player offers a slightly larger screen and a classier casing. If you can find it discounted online, the D1700 is a good budget-level buy.

Review: While Audiovox isn't known for making the sleekest portable DVD players, it does produce relatively affordable ones. With its D1700 model, Audiovox is attempting to strike the right balance between decent cosmetics, performance, and price. Did the company succeed? Ultimately, that will depend on how much stores and online retailers discount the D1700.While Audiovox isn't known for making the sleekest portable DVD players, it does produce relatively affordable ones. With its D1700 model, Audiovox is attempting to strike the right balance between decent cosmetics, performance, and price. Did the company succeed? Ultimately, that will depend on how ... Expand full review

While Audiovox isn't known for making the sleekest portable DVD players, it does produce relatively affordable ones. With its D1700 model, Audiovox is attempting to strike the right balance between decent cosmetics, performance, and price. Did the company succeed? Ultimately, that will depend on how much stores and online retailers discount the D1700.While Audiovox isn't known for making the sleekest portable DVD players, it does produce relatively affordable ones. With its D1700 model, Audiovox is attempting to strike the right balance between decent cosmetics, performance, and price. Did the company succeed? Ultimately, that will depend on how much stores and online retailers discount the D1700.

On the road, again
As a step-up model to the , this portable DVD player follows Audiovox's philosophy of sacrificing a little style to meet a price point. In this case, that price point is $799. Like the DV1680, the D1700 isn't exactly svelte, weighing in at 3 pounds with the lithium-ion battery (2 pounds without). However, the unit's cosmetics are a tad slicker.

Flip open the clamshell casing, and you'll find a 7-inch screen, two tiny speakers, and three buttons. These buttons, which adorn the top half of the D1700, are actually a nice touch; two analog dials control color and brightness settings while the third lets you select the display mode (4:3, 16:9, 16:9 zoom to fit screen, or off).

On the bottom half of the deck, you'll find a full set of command buttons. While the backlit LCD is easily readable in darkness, the nonbacklit buttons are not. Another gripe: The remote is much harder to use than the credit card-sized controller that comes with the DV1680.

In terms of connectivity, there's the standard minijack headphone output as well as a composite minijack input/output for connecting the unit to a TV or receiving a signal from a camcorder. You also get a dongle to output S-Video signals, and you can toggle between PAL and NTSC video--just bear in mind that this is only a Region 1 DVD deck, so even if you do get PAL content, you need to make certain that it isn't copy-protected. You won't find a component-video output for optimal picture quality on high-end TVs or an optical digital-audio out.

Quality control
As far as picture quality is concerned, we found that the D1700 inherited some problems from the DV1680--namely, contending with hot spots and brightness transitions. In one scene in the From Hell DVD, Johnny Depp's character and a doctor are chatting in a pitch-black room. As the room quickly lights up, the LCD was polluted with blocky artifacts near the light source.

While watching the "making-of" documentaries on the From Hell special-features disc, we noticed some picture softness when jumping between scenes shot on digital video and the film itself. Otherwise, we found the picture to be reasonably crisp; it's far from the quality of a progressive-scan deck or a DVD-equipped notebook, but the D1700 is a respectable performer. Hide Review

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1.5 stars

"JUNK JUNK JUNK" Dec 17, 2009, 5:38 pm By richardmassaro29

Pros: DONT EVER BUY THERE PORTABLE DVD PLAYERS I BOUGHT THESE FOR MY DAUGHTER AND THEY BOTH WENT OUT IN LESS THAN 3 MONTHS AND GO FIGURE AUDIVOX WONT REPLACE, I WILL NEVER BUY ANYTHING WITH THE NAME AUDIOVOX EVER

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4.0 stars

"Great Player, Great Price" Dec 17, 2009, 5:38 pm By

Summary: Got this player for my wife for Christmas, have used it to watch about 30 movies. Not a problem with skipping at all. Great Accessories too. It seems like a well built player. Sturdy.

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