Recordable Samsung DVD Player £64.99 TODAY ONLY + 1000 Tesco Points [CLOSED]

Joe_Totale_2

scanner wrote:

can anyone confirm whether or not it plays divx

Yes, come on and spill the beans; you tight fisted mse's!

HankMcSpank

Mine has just arrived...if someone can outline how to burn a DVD with a divx file ...then I'll check! (ie which options do I select under Nero..."data" etc)

HankMcSpank

UPDATE: This DVD recorder doesn't play Divx files (tried...no workee, but it also says it doesn't play Divx files on page 40 of the manual)...nor do the two attributed hacks work to make it multi-region. So for the time being, I'm going to have to de-regionify the couple of non-UK DVDs I own.

Hey ho...still a nice machine.

Joe_Totale_2

HankMcSpank wrote:

UPDATE: This DVD recorder doesn't play Divx files (tried...no workee, but it also says it doesn't play Divx files on page 40 of the manual)...nor do the two attributed hacks work to make it multi-region. So for the time being, I'm going to have to de-regionify the couple of non-UK DVDs I own.

Hey ho...still a nice machine.

Mine still aint arrived, and Tesco's order tracking is kaput!

Hank, have you seen the following threads/hacks:

digitalspy

dvdreviewer


ps

this UK retailer is stating divx/mpeg4 playback but no mention of multi-region.

hiwayhifi

cigar_2

My order has been cancelled too - they just phoned to say "Sorry - we haven't got any". I thought I got in quite early too at just after midday - about half an hour after the OP posted.

HankMcSpank

I ordered mine from Tesco.com on Friday night at 8.30pm!

Joe_Totale........Re those links...yes tried the first "hack" - didn't work for me. Your second URL doesn't work, but I suspect if it did, it'd be the 2nd hack I tried which didn't work either. As mentioned, I've only got a couple on non-UK DVDs & it's a fairly quick job to copy them onto another blank DVD & making them region free in the process.

mrme

Not getting mine :mad: Nice of them to let me know I had to contact them. Ordered on Friday 9th @ 1:49 (or so the 'order details' page says). They really are rubbish, out of 5 orders a total of 0 have been delivered :rotfl: OK so two were price mistakes but the other three were oos.

Joe_Totale_2

Mine came today:j.


Not region free:mad:

Does not recognise any of my Divx discs:mad:

However, the Progressive scan mode on my cheapish MSE samsung lcd looks fab:T

I will continue to trawl the net in search of a hack, if anyone finds owt, let us know.

sabbykins

I was a bit miffed too about it not being region free! AND it won't play some of my DVD+R's i have, although it plays some.

Another thing i'm noticing is that the picture coming through it from my SKY+ box is pretty grainy. I'm not too impressed at all, i might have to give them a ring once i've exhausted all the troubleshooting possibilities.
I keep reminding myself of how cheap it was though and thats some comfort!

rizla01

Someone said earlier that it works with RAM Disks.

To save me forking out can someone tell me if they have been successful?


Thoughts:
Quite happy with the machine in general. I like the 2X F/F with sound (and up to 128X F/F?). and the TV control on the remote. Would've been nice to see at a glance what channel its on for recording but easy to do. just means turning telly on.:(. Takes a little while to load up so no instant record but I guess thats quite common. Wish it'd do things (delete) without confirming every step of the way, tho.

Great toy. I think I've played with most of the features. Looks good.very quiet fan too.

All in all great buy.