latest sony dvd player features

Sony combined a wealth of popular features to create the DVPS360, their most affordable DVD player. Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS output produce the ultimate surround sound experience, and Sony’s exclusive SmoothScan SmoothSlow picture search modes allow for distortion-free images when searching for specific scenes.
Main Features
Component Video Outputs Provide the highest level of video signal transfer quality available today when connected to televisions equipped with compatible inputs. By dividing the video signal into component elements, component video outputs deliver a remarkable improvement in picture detail at maximum resolution, with unmatched color purity and edge detail. Color blooming and "hanging dots" are eliminated, and other NTSC artifacts are eliminated.
DTS® Compatibility allows the DVD player to pickup and output DTS (Digital Theater System) 5.1 channel audio signals for decoding by DTS-decoding receivers. The sound of DTS is three-dimensional with a wide dynamic range and a minimum of compression artifacts.
Optical & Coaxial Dolby® Digital Outputs connects to Dolby digital receivers and systems with either optical or coaxial digital audio inputs, for maximum flexibility in connectivity. Provides pass through of Dolby Digital signals for decoding in the receiver.
Precision Drive system Sony's second-generation transport design includes Active Tilt Control, a Dynamic Focus™ system and an Advanced DSP Servo system for superb tracking of disc imperfections. Also has High-Speed Stepping Motor for fast track and chapter access.
Audio Features
96 kHz/24-bit Audio D/A Converter Maximizes DVD and CD audio performance capability, providing smoother, less digitized transitions, and richer sonic texture.
Virtual Surround Sound When using the DVD player with only two front speakers, this technology creates a surround-sound effect by incorporating a portion of the center-surround information into the left and right stereo signals.
Video Features
SmoothScan picture search Uses a 32-bit RISC microprocessor for superior scan quality in Frame Advance, Slow Motion (at 1/10 and 1/5 speed) and High-Speed Search (at 2X, 10X and 30X speed) -- all in forward and reverse.
SmoothSlow playback A refinement of SmoothScan processing for enhanced slow speed performance in forward and reverse.

A truly feature-packed Sony DVD player which plays home made CDR and CDRW discs, offers two digital outputs for easy connection to an AV amplifier AND a MiniDisc or CD recorder, two scart sockets (and other useful connections) and it even reads CD and DVD text information. The Sony DVPNS400D has it all.