SAMSUNG: Samsung C500

Saturday 7 July 2012

Samsung C500

From toddler to teen to adult the Samsung DVD-C500 Upconverting DVD Player has features ever member of the family can use and enjoy.

Let's take on those toddlers first. For one thing they just don't need a new Blu-ray player to watch Dora the Explorer and her monkey for the jillionth time. We think it'll be quite a while before the bilingual moppet even makes it to Blu-ray.

Have you ever seen what a little kid can do to a DVD in a matter of seconds? Give them a few minutes and the disc will look like Tokyo after Godzilla strolled through it. Well, if a DVD is in really bad shape, it's time to buy a new one. But for minor dings and scratches the C500 has this cool feature Samsung calls Defect Disc Recovery Solution. Samsung says the C500 "plays perfectly through scratches, smudges and tilts." (We think 'tilts' refers to warping.) Rolling Actuator Technology handles the tilts.

The C500 is also dust proof. It actually removes dust as the disc spins. The dusting is augmented by using a Viterbi error correction algorithm to lower the error rate of the recording. All this high technology makes your C500 as close to tot-proof as any DVD is likely to get any time soon.

A feature everybody will enjoy is progressive scan with upconversion. It works when you connect the player to your TV set via an HDMI cable (available separately). The resulting picture is not as sharp as Blu-ray. But it's so close many people can't tell the difference.