Introduction

In the last five years, DVD movie and player sales have skyrocketed through the roof as the media format has quickly taken over the video market. In conjunction with the explosive growth of the DVD market, video formats such as DivX and XviD took off as the Internet became the place to distribute content. With the massive amounts of media available both offline and online, a need has slowly developed for home consumer players that can handle various video codecs. There have been a number of such devices slowly being introduced over the past year or so. One new vendor in this market is Lite-On with their LVD-2001 PhoMaster DVD player. This consumer home player not only plays back DVD disks, but can handle MPEG4 formats, play back MP3/WMA files and perform slide show duties with digital photographs. I recently got a hold of one of these players for my personal use, so let’s take a look at what the device can do.

Packaging

The Lite-On packaging for the LVD-2001 is surprisingly thin when compared to other vendors out there. At first, I was a little worried that the player would be damaged during shipment but it appeared that there is adequate protection for the device internally. Lite-On makes pretty efficient use of the interior space. Here are some pictures of the packaging:

Front of the box	Top of the box looking in	The player itself