The DVD player features compatibility with DVD-R, VCD, and CD-R/CD-RW discs. With the JPEG Viewer, you can easily display your favorite digital photos and create custom slideshows with a few simple clicks of the player's remote control. You can play discs burned with MP3 and WMA digital audio files, and it's also DivX Home Theater Certified--meaning that it's compatible with video burned to disc using both the DivX video format. The interactive Digital Picture Zoom feature allows you to select an area of the video from a DVD and magnify it. This set also includes a USB interface, enabling you to connect "mass storage classification devices"--i.e., external hard drives, portable thumb drives, and compatible MP3 players/digital cameras--and play JPEG, WMA, MP3, and DivX files.

The FST PURE flat screen picture tube delivers increased viewing angles along with the enhanced picture linearity necessary to produce accurate, life-like images. This feature eliminates unwanted reflections from room lighting, which is a common problem in conventional tube designs. It also improves sharpness and brightness. The 3D Y/C digital comb filter constantly analyzes the three dimensions of picture height, picture width, and picture changes-over-time, to reduce dramatically edge image artifacts while improving transition detail.

It includes four Picture Preference presets (standard, sports, movie) as well as a Memory Mode that allows you to customize your own settings and save them. Other features include a glow-key remote control, sleep timer, video labeling, tri-lingual on-screen displays, and V-chip parental control.

The MD30H82 has a space-saving bottom speaker design, and it can produce virtual surround sound through its integrated speakers. It also includes coaxial and optical digital audio outputs for connecting to a surround sound home theater system in order to take advantage of the DVD player's Dolby Digital and DTS decoding capabilities. The StableSound feature eliminates the annoyance of normal program volume being followed immediately by extremely loud commercial messages or drastic volume fluctuations while changing channels.

Here's a full listing of the set's video and audio connections:

• Composite A/V: 2 (1 front)
• S-Video: 2 (1 front)
• Component Video: 1
• HDMI: 1
• RF: 1
• Digital audio: 1 coaxial, 1 optical
• USB: 1

Tech Talk
DivX is a compressed digital video format (like MP3) that's based on the MPEG-4 video compression standard. It can reduce the video from a DVD (MPEG-2) to around 10 percent of its original size while still retaining good video and audio quality, enabling you to store several two-hour length movies on burned DVD media.

HDMI is a lossless, uncompressed, all-digital audio/video interface to link any audio/video source (such as a set-top box, DVD player, or AV receiver) with your TV--all over a single cable. HDMI supports standard, enhanced or high definition video, plus multi-channel digital audio on a single cable. It supports all ATSC formats--standard (SDTV), enhanced (EDTV), and high (HDTV).

Component video (also called Y/Pb/Pr) features a three-jack video input, which provides separate connections for luminance (Y), blue color difference (PB) and red color difference (PR). This results in increased bandwidth for color information, resulting in a more accurate picture with clearer color reproduction and less bleeding than you would get with S-Video or composite (RCA yellow video plug) connections. You will need a separate RCA left/right audio cable for sound.

What's in the Box
Flat-screen CRT television with integrated DVD player, remote control (with batteries), printed operating instructions