E: Unknown. Dual DivX player £43

blinky

Asda are selling a Dual (brand) DivX player for £43

Don't know the specs or if its a rebadged model.

Not listed on the ASDA site.

compmad1

What is a Dual DivX player please?

RaihanT

compmad1 wrote:

What is a Dual DivX player please?

Dual is the name of the manufacturer. Divx players means it can plays movies coded in Divx format

Pat__3

RaihanT wrote:

Dual is the name of the manufacturer. Divx players means it can plays movies coded in Divx format

And where would we get Divx format, Raihan.

Mr_Gordon_2

Divx is another video encoding format, more highly compressed than Mpeg which you find on a DVD. This tends to be either encoded from existing material through an encoder or downloaded from the internet and played back on a computer which has the Divx codec and software. It's a bit like MP3 for video if you like.

I've just picked up an Archos AV480 portable video player, Divx being the format this takes.

Pat__3

Thanks Mr_Gordon, Sounds very complicated.:)

JPS

Nah it's easy! You download a film, burn it to CD and can watch it on your home telly! It's almost as if these manufacturers are encouraging you to download movies...which is obviously not allowed. As it happens I have bought this DVD player, but I am finding it will just freeze when playing some DVD's so I might swap it for another one. Maybe the £39.99 one from Sainsburys?

Pat__3

As you know JPS it is illegal to download the films. So this must not be encouraged by anyone.:)

Madness

Ebuyer are selling a DivX DVD Player for £39.99 inc VAT + P&P (chepest P&P is £3.99). It quite big in size but has played absolutely every media format I have (DVD+R, DVD-R, CD-R, VCD, SVCD) and has also played 2 discs that had stoppuing working on my old player!! Definitely worth a look at the price (see link below). Lots of reviews posted on the ebuyer site for this player including simply instructions to make it multi region (all done via the remote control in a couple of seconds).

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?rb=5154789073&action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=64760