http://www.everg.co.jp/?contents=evergreen/dvd/eg-d900sx

* Snipped from J@pan.Inc's GadgetWatch #175 newsletter dated 14-Jan-2005

Name: Evergreen D900SX
Category: Multiformat DVD Player
Price: Open Price; estimated around 10,000 yen
Release date in Japan: Already available

The Gist: Continuing with the "cheap and functional" roll we're
on, here's Evergreen's new vertical slot-loading DVD player, the
D900SX. Released on January 7th, the D900SX is atypical in three
aspects: it's cheap (about 10,000 yen), can play enough media
formats to feed an army, and has a D-Sub 15 pin output.

I believe the D900SX is amongst the first vertical-style DVD
players to support a range of media formats, and it certainly gets
off on the right foot. Equipped with the capability to play
MPEG-1/2/4, DivX, and XviD video files stored on DVDs and CDs,
Evergreen also proves a friendly member of the community by
actually providing users with a list of specific formats that
have been confirmed to play. As anyone who has had to deal with
players that allegedly "support" DivX and XviD likely knows,
this is a nice move on Evergreen's part; there is no longer any
doubt that the player can play specific files at specific bitrates,
framerates, or in certain audio formats.

The D900SX is a slot-loading DVD player, and it has a blue backlit
display to show information such as track, time remaining, and so
forth. Output jacks on the D900SX include a component output,
composite output, and even D-Sub 15 pin output, for connection
to your PC's CRT or LCD. The D900SX can indeed output progressive
video from DVDs, so it's not as though DVD playback was an
afterthought. Nor was audio; the player is equipped with analog
2ch, analog 5.1ch, optical digital, and coaxial digital audio
output jacks. The on-screen display can be displayed in either
English or Japanese, and depending on whether or not the player
is Region Free, I suspect the low price, feature set, and design
of this player could make it popular with the international
community. One thing we could ask for is some sort of network support;
the D900SX is not equipped an Ethernet jack or wireless LAN capabilities.


Sryn
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