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NeuNeo HVD2085 November 30th, 2005 | by Ian Bell

Setup and Use

Setting up the HVD2085 is fairly straightforward and the instruction manual they provide does a pretty good job of explaining things. We want to point out though that the manual talks about playing pictures off of a memory card (SD, MMC) but there was no slot on our unit, so either this was an error on their part, or our evaluation unit was missing it.

The remote control is easy to use and fairly intuitive once you get to it. The main stop, play, pause buttons are in kind of an odd location, but nothing big there. There is no backlight behind the buttons, so you may want to get an aftermarket remote control if that feature is important to you. The remote control uses infrared instead of RF technology for communication, and we found ourselves sometimes holding the remote control out using our hands in order to get it to work, not a great sign there.

Since the HVD2085 is capable of outputting signals in multiple formats, you will have to manually change the media resolution depending on its native setting. For example, if you have recorded a DVD in a 720P resolution, but have the player setup to output the video at 1080P, then it will show it at 1080P. There is no way to tell the player to run the video resolutions at their native format. While this is not a huge deal and certainly not a feature that's common when it comes to DVD players, it might be an idea for a future firmware update by NeuNeo.

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