The Sony DVP-NS708HP Multi-System DVD Player brings your home theater experience to a whole new level with superb HD imagery and exquisite digital audio sound. Your current DVD library will look and sound better than ever before, because it's a backward-compatible player, capable of upconverting your DVDs to 720p/1080i/1080p HD through the HDMI output. Its Precision Drive 3 System, Twin Laser Pick Up and Dynamic Tilt Compensation ensure optimal disc playback; while Precision Cinema Progressive Scan and its component video output achieves superb color accuracy and high resolution playback.

Enjoy the awesome power of Dolby Digital and DTS digital audio for a wider, more enveloping surround sound experience. To help you re-create the thrill and realism of today's movie soundtracks at home, this player offers superb features such as a 192KHz/16-bit processor, and optical/coaxial digital audio outputs for connection to your home theater receiver. And with multi-format DVD playback capabilities it offers support for DVD-Video, DVD-R/W, DVD+R/W, SVCD, VCD discs, and DivX.

Though it's an excellent DVD player, it can also be used as a CD player and JPEG photo viewer. You could actually use the DVP-NS708HP to share your favorite songs and photos with friends and family at your next gathering. In addition, it offers fast/slow motion with sound, TV Virtual Surround, multi-language/subtitle support, instant replay/advance, parental lock control, quick set-up, and on-screen display.

Its super slim chassis and stylish Harmonized AV design is sure to complement your room's decor. With connectivity to multiple A/V components, and NTSC/PAL compatibility, the Sony DVP-NS708HP answers the call with superb versatility and reliability.

• HDMI Output with 1080p Upconversion

It features an HDMI output that's capable of upconverting video signals to 720p/1080i and 1080p. This technology enables this unit to carry high-definition audio and video information through a single cable and achieving the highest quality picture and clearest sound available.

• Precision Drive 3 System

This powerful feature allows you to play back some DVDs that may have been damaged or warped, without a degradation of picture quality.

• Dynamic Tilt Compensation

This player's laser pick-up automatically adjusts its parameters to achieve an accurate readout.

• Precision Cinema Progressive Scan

This is a progressive scan DVD player, capable of scanning an entire video frame at once; scan-lines commonly associated with interlaced video are drastically reduced. The result is a spectacularly clear image with no motion artifacts (stair-stepping), and details so sharp they seem as if they're etched onto the screen.

• Built-In Dolby Digital and DTS Decoders

With built-in Dolby Digital/DTS decoder, it reproduces surround sound fidelity and sonic realism from your favorite movie soundtracks. It's capable of advanced 16-bit processing and an outstanding sampling frequency of 192KHz.

• Component Video Output

It achieves greater color accuracy and high resolution playback capability when connected via the component output to your projector, plasma and/or LCD/CRT televisions.

• Multi-Format Player

Experience superb versatility with the ability to play back DVD-Video, DVD-R/W, DVD+R/W, DVD+R DL, DVD-R DL, DVD-RW (VR Mode), SVCD, VCD, MP3, and JPEG files.

• DivX Playback

DivX is video compression software, which enables high quality video to be compressed into very small files then downloaded onto CD-R or CD-RW and played back with very little loss of quality.

• Home Theater Friendly

Use the optical or coaxial digital audio outputs to connect the DVD player to your home theater receiver and enjoy your favorite DVDs in surround sound.

• Parental Lock Control

For parents who want full control of media content played back through player, the unit's menu features a parental control and rating system adjustment.

• Multi-Language System

This player offers the ability to select language or subtitle preferences.

• Full-Feature Remote Control

It includes a full-feature remote control able to execute every command from any angle up to ±30°.