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Rick Rizner, John Goddard
Averatec claims its AV6200H60 is the world's largest personal DVD player. The unit certainly looks good, with a wide-aspect 15.4-inch screen that presented movies very well. With this and a few other stand-alone DVD players we've seen, you don't have to turn on the computer; you can just pop in a movie, open the lid, and sit back on the couch. A small remote powers up the DVD-ROM and CD-RW combo drive and controls both DVD and music discs from up to 20 feet away. The wide-screen displays movies with no letterbox effect, and the built-in speakers are loud enough to fill a living room with satisfactory sound. When it's just music you want, the speaker grilles above the keyboard let you close the lid without muffling the sound.
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