On show at Computex: New portable DVD player

June 5, 2001

Afreey Co. Ltd., according to their assessment the first company in the world to develop 50x and 56X CD-ROM drives, is showing a home DVD player abd a very thin portable DVD player, which was awarded the "Taiwan Award of Excellence", a national mark of distinction awarded to companies that excel with proprietary developments and own design ideas, rather than just being an OEM manufacturing base.

The portable unit, PDV-2000, is equipped with a TFT-LCD screen of 6.8`` diagonale and built-in Dolby Digital decoder/DTS output. The endurance is claimed to be 3.5 hours of continuous playback, using a Lithium battery. The player accommodates DVD, VCD, MP3, CD, CD-R, CD-RW, and SVCD disks. The audio-video output jack allows standard connection to a TV, LCD projector or video camera. When used at home, an optical and a S-VS output provide superior sound and picture quality.

Additionally, Afreey also introduces a new multi-beam 25X DVD-ROM with Tru-X technology and a MP3 CD-plyer for 8cm discs.