Aldi DVD player & 160 GB HDD Recorder (merged)

robonz

Aldi are selling another DVD & HDD Recorder for £170. Is it any good?

http://www.aldi.co.uk/

bobdauilda

looks the dogs....

fox2319

Looks ok but no freeview

Shoog

Looks very similar to an Ellion DVR-950H (here). Don't know who actually makes it.

The DVR-950S is £188 from Amazon (here) - think the S just stands for slimline.

Terminator_2

This Thursday £39.99

One of the most remarkable, feature-packed DVDs on the market today - and for an equally remarkable price. Already compatible with 'next generation' HD TVs, this is set to become yet another Aldi best-seller.

* Includes FREE HDMI cable
* Employs a digital process that upscales standard DVD quality to virtual HD quality
* HDMI connection means no loss of picture or sound quality
* DivX compatible for playback of downloaded movies
* 5-in-1 card reader for viewing all your digital pictures on your TV
* 5.1 channel output with AC3 Dolby Digital Decoder
* Full function remote control with batteries
* Front headphone socket
* Progressive scan
* DVD±R/RW, CD, CD-R/RW, VCD, JPEG CD, Kodak Picture CD, MP3 CD
* DTS decoder

welshblob

I think it is the same one as talked about here and as sold in Germany earlier this year.

btw I think it has VGA output too. Looks comparable with the latest yamada that ebuyer are selling here for £50 but based on a different chipset. Good value though.

Cheers
Rob

Edit : Review here in German and translated badly here

Edit : Note, the Tevion is fitted with an Zoran Vaddis 888 chip-set which is capable of decoding std-def MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 Part2 (SP/ASP) sources only i.e. not hi-def sources. It can however, up-scale std-def images to pseudo hi-def looking images.

monty58

looks good............but how do you make it multi-regional?

slowen

monty58 wrote:

looks good............but how do you make it multi-regional?

It will probably be a hack done through the remote control, you could try a google search for the model number and see if any hacks come up

welshblob

monty58 wrote:

looks good............but how do you make it multi-regional?

I think the hack is in the review I posted above, it difficult to tell though ;-)

seanparkin

upscaling dvd players are pointless really. Although the HDMI connection may improve your image quality slightly.

welshblob

seanparkin wrote:

upscaling dvd players are pointless really. Although the HDMI connection may improve your image quality slightly.

True. A VGA port is quite handy though, shame there isn't a freeview box with a VGA port for about this price. Also i'd like a divx dvd player for this price to have an ethernet port as well.
Rob