Cheap dvd player which plays divx (downloaded) movies

fulltimemum_2

I just purchased a 'dual dvd859' from Asda which has so far played all of the downloaded films, ordinary dvds with good quality picture etc. I would recommend this and it only cost £43.99.

veronarona

Thanks, but too late for my "avi.dly" (that's a pun, get it?) downloading brother, who's recently bought a Yamada DVX-6700 Mpeg4 from eBuyer.com for £60 including delivery. (It's gone down now to £54 incl).

He's very pleased with it, though - apart from a couple of Super VCD's (which wouldn't even play on his PC) it's played everything he's thrown at it.

veronarona

carled

make sure he upgrades to the latest firmware on the yamada - fixes a few "quirks"

sainthalo

some sainsburys have a divx for 29.99 and whsmith recently had a skyworth for the same price. got skyworth its great.

Reed_Richards

I am curious. Where do you download these divx films from? Is it legal?

Better not answer the first question if the answer to the second question is "no".

juliebb

The 'Skyworth' player that WHS was selling over the xmas period is totally brilliant value for money @ £29.99, it has played every single divx/xvid movie i've thrown at it (believe me i've played loads). It's also region free, plays vcd/mp3/backups etc...i only wish i could get hold of a couple more!
I cant speak for asda's 'Dual' or the one sainsbury is selling? But as for the Yamada i've had nothing but trouble with the one i bought 6 months ago! It will only play original dvd's properly. mp3's, backups, divx & xvid all play jumpy or skip and freeze. It's been in it's box since day one! I paid £60 for the piece of junk and the firmware does very little to help!
Stick with the Skyworth if u can get it! and at £30 who cares!

ifti

im after one of these too but would like a DVD recorder that plays divx films any recommendations would be great

thanks

ifti

tin

juliebb wrote:

The 'Skyworth' player that WHS was selling over the xmas period is totally brilliant value for money @ £29.99, it has played every single divx/xvid movie i've thrown at it (believe me i've played loads). Stick with the Skyworth if u can get it! and at £30 who cares!

My experience of Skyworth is quite different. Although it would play any disc at all, most divx/xvids I had would freeze somewhere in the disc and require resetting. I tried 9 I think, all with different encoding/frame rate/size etc and of them only 1 played all the way through.

As I was buying a divx player to avoid the messing around of re-encoding divxs to VCD, I needed a player that doesn't require yet more messing around to get it to play reliably. Seems that official firmware updates were non-existant, apparently not likely to appear either, and unofficial ones were dodgy at best. It went back to the shop.

I am fairly sure WHsmith don't do them any more as well.

Shame cos it was a good looking player with a good remote, and handles every other type of disc with ease.

MrIP

https://www.Aria.co.uk quite good for this type of thing

carled

juliebb wrote:

But as for the Yamada i've had nothing but trouble with the one i bought 6 months ago! It will only play original dvd's properly. mp3's, backups, divx & xvid all play jumpy or skip and freeze. It's been in it's box since day one!

Exactly the accusations I'VE heard levelled at the Skyworth. I think someone "outed" the Skyworth as being a Yamada clone (ie the internals are the same) on some other board, but it has less ability to be firmware updated. Presumably you have the more faulty 6600 rather than the newer and much-improved 6700 then? Even the 6600 when updated with the proper firmware from the Yamada support site is absolutely fine unless it has a mechanical/electrical fault, which is pretty rare...

carled

tin wrote:

I am fairly sure WHsmith don't do them any more as well.

Very true indeed. They got so fed up with them being returned they actually withdrew them from sale. Probably ended up selling them as a job lot to some dodgy backstreet shops!

The Skyworth is *really* sensitive to the divX encoding type. There are numerous utilities out there to "fix" the divX, but generally speaking the Skyworth appears to be a troublesome beast.