ALDI 5.1 divX DVD PLAYER £29.99

aj2001

its funny everyone is worried about usb etc and all i want is good ff and rew speed I must be from another planet, lol

aj

Silent_Bob_3

You do know if you press the FF or RW button more than once it speeds up to 4x 8x speed?

salsa1

Could somebody please advise the difference between a DivX DVD palyer and an ordinary DVD player please.

Poppycat

Divx player is capable of playing Mpeg4 format which is basically XViD or DIVX.

These are files that a more commonly made by a pc although some video cameras can create mpeg4 format. Pc files can be home made movies or rips of DVD's, and generally you can get far more video data in these formats than mpeg 2 which is what dvds are encoded to.

You can also download these formats and the most commons sizes are 700mb although other sizes are known. You can fit 6x700mb on a 4.3gb dvdr.

salsa1

Poppycat wrote:

Divx player is capable of playing Mpeg4 format which is basically XViD or DIVX.

These are files that a more commonly made by a pc although some video cameras can create mpeg4 format. Pc files can be home made movies or rips of DVD's, and generally you can get far more video data in these formats than mpeg 2 which is what dvds are encoded to.

You can also download these formats and the most commons sizes are 700mb although other sizes are known. You can fit 6x700mb on a 4.3gb dvdr.

Can you still watch ordinary DVDs on them?

Poppycat

Yes Salsa1 you can watch ordinary dvds.

thespacecowboy

Cambridge store still have a couple left if anyone is interested.

seth

are there any left in west London...?

I'm in W12 local Hounslow branch is out of stock as is Kingsbury, tried Sunbury they had some then noticed Sunbury was in Suffolk not Sunbury on Thames.

Found some phone numbers here: http://www.cambridgeonline.co.uk/reviews/9930/

I missed out on the Lidl player last year this one look good and with a 3 year warantee I'd like one.

With the FF and REW is it just x8 and x16 my KISS DP 1000 does X8, X16, X32, and X48 on XVID/DIVX but the KISS is getting on in years the display flickers and the chipset from 4 years ago can't do GMC or QPEL. Good picture and sound though.

I work in Slough and live in London W12 so anywhere around there is fine!

RoyTV

I am having trouble with Remote Control (this is the second player) and I am not that stupid to put the battery wrong way around. Manual says might be ambinet light is too much in the room, but other remotes work perfectly well even in 30 degree centi. any thoughts people , thanks

seth

RoyTV wrote:

I am having trouble with Remote Control .....any thoughts people , thanks

A few suggestions .....

The DivX/Xvid units are not like other DVD players, internally they are full blown SOCs (Systems on a Chip= CPU + MEMORY + OS + I/O devices ATA DVD Drive, USB ports, ethernet, wifi etc) they load their OS when cold booted (Powered up at the mains usually). They warm boot (when turned on via remote control) This means the latency for the system during a boot is variable. I've noticed this on all the DivX players I've owned 5 or 6! Turning them on can require one or 2 presses of the remote plus a 10 or 15 second dead period where the remote does not work. Also depending on the drive and the media the player has to wait as the drive spins up and reads the media etc. On a "normal" DVD player the drive is not a full ATA drive but a cut down controller that is designed for that make of transport. On a DixX/Xvid player you get a full blown DVD drives just like one for a PC. This is not designed to work with the controller on the SOC so the start up time for media etc is longer.

The second thing to check is to try moving the player and or remote and experiement with the angle of the player to the remote, not just the distance. The power for the IR on the remotes is much the same, and I assume you have tried a fresh set of batteries as the ones in the pack are variable.

I've had some units, Cyberhome springs to mind where the remotes are ok, not not great for range and are ver sensitive to light. Others like the Kiss and the H&B ones are fine even in bright Sun. Some times this can be due to gaps on the case letting in sunlight or even lighter getting through the ports. This is just poor design!

Oh check there is no sticky protective film over the IR Reciever on the player, I've even seen some on the remotes, though to be honest these seem to be tranparent to IR.