• Samsung Pebble DVD-F1080

    Samsung Pebble DVD-F1080

    Frazier Barretto, Jul 03, 2008 1850 hrs IST

    Samsung's DVD player Pebble sports a cute design compared to the contemporary design of DVD players that we've seen over the years.

    Style, HDMI, Compact design, Full Functional Remote.

    No Display on player, No 5.1 channel, No USB interface, Price.

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The Samsung Pebble as mentioned in the intro isn't one of the ordinary DVD players available. It sports a cute design compared to the contemporary design we've seen over the years. The Pebble's basic design is a compact square with rounded edges that doesn't really make it look like a Pebble. To me it seemed more like an enlarged button picked from arcade world. Nevertheless we can't take away the fact that it does look cute and can add some fancy to your sitting in an open wall-unit beside a large LCD. Its high gloss finish and strip of chrome really add to its looks. There are buttons that are touch-sensitive on the player but towards the front. The buttons are a little raised over the gloss body and I feel that they could have been embedded with backlight LEDs. The buttons present on the player include an eject button along with the power and playback buttons. The player beeps as a reaction to touch of any button. The power ON/OFF button has an LED just beside it and glows red when in standby and blue when switched ON.



The chrome strip up front is from where the CD-tray of the player releases. Having all design in mind Samsung here could seriously implement a slot-loading system and more over considering that Samsung optical drives do face problems with their tray over time, it'd been more than apt.



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(8) Comments
sunil
,mumbai, on Jul 05, 2008 11:42 PM
this is very faltoo very costly
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DevUrban
,Bangalore, on Jul 04, 2008 10:44 AM
Man so many typos and grammatical mistakes..For Chrissakes people al over the world are reading it.. Does anyone proof read any of these..
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perplexed monke
,mumbai, on Jul 04, 2008 10:57 AM
poda patti....
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winston
,chennai, on Jul 05, 2008 08:13 PM
oh, son of english, forgive these mortals.
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sachin
,goa, on Jul 04, 2008 10:52 AM
samsung is now earning bad reputation with tray mechanism of all kinds of their optical drives which usually fail sometime after their warranty period and company is doing nothing to rectify it.i have two such drives and don't trust samsung drives anymore.
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gRasshoffer
,grassland, on Jul 05, 2008 12:35 AM
I have long back stopped trusting these Koreans - samsung and LG. All there products rattle once warranty is ovr - be it cd drives, TVs, Microwaves or ACs- ACs specially.
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Shalin
,Rajkot, on Jul 04, 2008 09:42 PM
the typo mistake plz " along with 7 inch lcd screen as a bonus "
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Shalin
,Rajkot, on Jul 04, 2008 09:40 PM
the final conclusion which i have forged out is you can get an seven inch high screen resolution portable dvd player in which all the above stuff is included along with a & inch portable quiet good screen as a bonus and more u have to pay is six to seven hundreed bucks ...so i dont think its worth the money ......
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