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7" LCD Portable DVD Player for £129

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  • I can use both formats. I am using Ritek GO4's and have burn't at 4X and also tried Datawrite CMC dye at both 4 and 8X. these are both -R. Do +R play fine? some are avi films converted to VOB with Nero. Any help would be greatly appreciated
  • I still have the problem with + R. and I even tried another burner. Either I have got a fault machine or this model doesn't like playing DVD-/+R's burn't from AVI. Do these play for anyone else with this machine?
  • dfarry
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    Beerbelly... it's more likely in that case to be the way it is burnt than the disc format then... assuming "usual" ;) disks work OK.

    Maybe download DVDSanta and give that a try... I use it to convert AVI's

    http://www.dvdsanta.com/
  • dfarry
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    BeerBelly,

    I have the new Aldi Tevion now and am hitting a similar problem to you, though in my case I do think it is both media and format related.

    Certainly most of my -R's (even top quality Fuji dye) discs are jumping or locking up. However +R's seem to be fine including one's burnt from AVI.

    Maybe this is something that can easily be overcome by changing the booktype (as mentioned earlier) to DVD-ROM.. I am just going to try this and will let you know how I go.
  • dfarry
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    Just created an image of the -R and popped it onto a +RW to test.... it was fine... so looks like the unit is not happy with -R discs.

    I don't have any more -R discs to test with but maybe setting the -R book type to DVD-ROM would have overcome this problem
  • dfarry
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    Erased that +RW and popped a load of MP3's on it... they played OK too.
  • I took the Medion Back and they allowed me to test another one there. same problem! It must be a charteristic,they don't like Dvd converted from Avi's. I bought the Tevion from Aldi and it plays everything fine. It does'nt have a 2 year G'tee and it costs a 10 extra but I am now happy. The sound is also better! Thanks for your help Dfarry
  • dfarry
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    Glad you are sorted now mate...

    Interestingly I have found today that my DVD-R's work ok now...very strange... I hadn't used the unit for a day and it had no battery (or other power) I wonder if somehow the Antiskip Buffer (or whatever) got screwed up...anyway...all seems fine with the DVD's which is the main thing.

    I have tried running Video input from my Xbox to... but the scan rate seems to be wrong as I got a screen full of scan lines.... need to play around with that a bit more.
  • Thanxs DFarry,by the way you can make the Tevion Multi-region. follow this other MSE link for details

    http://forum.moneysavingexpert.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=Urgents;action=display;num=1102615105
  • dfarry
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    Cheers mate... already multiregioned :) though toi be honest I rarely watch non Region 2 DVD's...but still less restrictions the better :)
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