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DVD players.(includes ratings, and information on connections)(Product/Service Evaluation)

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| March 01, 2003 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Consumers Union of the United States, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

A DVD recorder is still a hefty investment, but some play-only machines now cost about the same as VCRs. Case in point: the $60 Mintek DVD-1600 (shown above, right).While this new name in players lacks the familiarity of a Panasonic or Sony, it delivers a DVD's superior picture quality on the cheap.

DVD players are delivering more for less in other ways. Some display JPEG pictures from a digital camera or the Internet that you "burn" on to a CD with a computer. Models that we tested also play MP3 music files burned on to a CD. And as in previous tests, many let you program the order of video titles (the actor bios in a James Bond movie, for example) and chapters ...

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