Posted by Biz on 12/18/05 02:36

I assumed you were being a smart ass, but I tried to answer your question
honestly. Its 9.3 x 17.1 x 1.7 , which is pretty standard size today, in
fact most av components are generally around 17 inches wide or so for rack
mounting. My Pioneers are both about 9 x 16.6 x 1.85 inches. My older
retired Toshiba was actually a lot bigger. Cyberhome 300 is 9.1 x 8.75 x
2.0, so its taller, but narrower and you couldnt rack mount it since its too
narrow, way to go Cyberhome...

How small do you want it to be? I think they are too small now(especially
in height) and dont have enough free space inside to help with cooling sinc
emost are passively cooled, thats IMHO on reason why they die so much faster
these days. Thats the reason I pointed out all the things that most normal
DVD players have on them, you mentioned nothing more than a 5.25" tray,
dictating certain size limits necessary to get things the like a readable
display, a full size tray, usable front panel controls by actual adult human
fingers, and all the outputs on the back. If its too big for your needs,
you look for smaller alternatives..I was being 100% sincere in my previous
reply, and YOU chose to take it the way you did....


"Joe" <nobody@invalid.com> wrote in message
news:nobody-1712051415140001@pool1319.cvx3-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net...
> In article <waSdnb1BPqjy7zneRVn-gg@ez2.net>, "John Mycroft"
> <mycrofts@hypercon.net> wrote:
>
> > This group appears to be populated by a bunch of foul-mouthed people who
> > like to believe that, because their knowledge is superior to yours, they
> > have the right to call you, among other things, an idiot and a "fucking
> > troll". They don't bother to read your original question but reply to
> > unhelpful replies that they post. A more miserable bucnh of jerks (they
> > called me that, too) you will need to go a long way to find.
> >
> > My sincere thanks go to the folks like daviesvideo@aol.com, Adrian A and
> > Marv Soloff who took my question as seriously as it was posed. I will
> > certainly follow your advice. But I did not ask for the abuse I got
from
> > Eric Gisin & Biz. I do hope they frow up one day.
> >
> > For the record, Idiot Man, the camera that cannot be attached via USB to
a
> > computer attaches just fine via USB to my laptop as described in the
manual.
> > Kinda makes you wonder who the idiot really is, doesn't it.
> >
> > Merry Christmas
>
> Funny that you should mention Marv Soloff - his was a real jerk's answer
> to the first question (Why is the Philips DVP 642 so big?) that I have
> ever posted to this newsgroup.
>
> In the same thread, Biz was superficially correct, but hardly helpful.
> "You've got a circuit board, power supply, the back
> panel has to be big enough to carry all the connecters, adn the front
panel
> needs to be big enough for a proper display, plus all the buttons....If
its
> too big, buy another player"
>
> Hey, Biz, *ALL* DVD players have the items you mentioned. So that is a
> crappy non-answer as to why the Philips is so big.
>
> In case anyone knowledgeable reads this, I was wondering if the Philips
> DVP 642 possibly had a better layout as far as heat dissipation, or maybe
> had more chips than some other DVD players - you know, the kind of thing
> that might have some relation to quality or reliability.
>
> --- Joe

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