We like the JPEG slideshow option, allowing you to go through a disc of photos easily. You can rewatch a sporting moment or listen to a spoken sentence with far more clarity at this speed. Tracking at 1.5 times speed and slow motion are great, especially in the case of the latter with sound too. We like to jump between discs, especially if watching a series, so being able to jump right back in where we left off is a top option. The multi-disc resume is a genuinely useful feature. The end result is a genuinely better quality experience of a DVD that might have looked poorer on a big screen before this player performed its magic. This is done intelligently enough to avoid it looking soft but also without any jagged edges either.
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As such the smarts at work here is able to take old 480p DVD discs and add in pixels to fill out a 1080p display. The Sony DVP-SR510H DVD player is all about that upscaling since it's Sony which is well known for its image processing. (Image credit: Future) Sony DVP-SR510H DVD player: Performance
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We like the ability to resume disc on up to six discs, so you can jump between them and the player will recognize the movie, for example, and let you play on from where you left off.Īll the audio of Dolby Digital can be decoded and output by this player meaning you can get up to 5.1 channel surround sound for immersive movie experiences. More on how that performs in the section below. The 1080p upscaling is a big appeal here, allowing you to watch any DVD in Full HD format via HDMI. Visually, for pictures, you can view JPEG. Audio wise you've got support for DTS, MP3, WMA, AAC and linear PCM. The player supports – deep breath now – CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD+R, DVD+R DL, DVD+RW, SVCD and Video CD. So if you've got old home movies and collections of music and pictures, then this should be able to get them viewable for you on the big screen. The key here is that is supports those which have been burned from a computer. The Sony DVP-SR510H DVD player can play a lot of DVD types as well as CDs. Round the back you've got connections for HDMI out, SPDIF out, audio line-out, component video out and composite video out.
Everything else you'll need is on the remote, so aside from changing the disc you'll likely rarely touch the actual player, which is great for keeping that shiny finish fingerprint free. On the top are power, play, stop and eject buttons – keeping it super minimal.