Yamada DVX-6700 DVD/DIVX Player £33.99

tonyg_2

Forgive my ignorance on these things, but I would be interested to know why this is better than a £25 DVD player from a supermarket? Is the sound/picture quality better or is it more compatible with more formats. Probably a daft qustion, but hope you don'tmind me asking...

Thanks in advance, Tony

shrek101

Divx Players need to evolve more quickly than convential players because mpeg4 (DivX, XViD) is constantly evolving with extra features, more realistic quality which tends to be more processor intensive.

Of course if you want jsut to play DVD then a cheap and cheerful player will fit the bill.

Wesker

Is it multi-region out of the box?

shrek101

Not that I know off see previous posts in this thread that has a hack.

Bayesian_Roller

tonyg wrote:

Forgive my ignorance on these things, but I would be interested to know why this is better than a £25 DVD player from a supermarket? Is the sound/picture quality better or is it more compatible with more formats. Probably a daft qustion, but hope you don'tmind me asking...

Thanks in advance, Tony

This player, unlike most standard supermarket brands, will play MPEG4 (DivX, for all intents and purposes) encoded video content. And, unlike some other MPEG4 players, it handles both DivX 3.11, 4, 5 and XviD codecs exceptionally well.

tonyg_2

Bayesian_Roller wrote:

This player, unlike most standard supermarket brands, will play MPEG4 (DivX, for all intents and purposes) encoded video content. And, unlike some other MPEG4 players, it handles both DivX 3.11, 4, 5 and XviD codecs exceptionally well.

Thanks, Tony

B33fy

The link clearly states the machine is multiregion and has a Scart connection, so I guess that answers the queries

Wesker

Yeah thats why i asked if its multi-region out of the box as it says so on the website but someone posted a hack on here...confusing :-/

shrek101

I got my player this morning. Couldnt get the dvd region free to work I posted earlier enter 1379 but cant change region from 2 to 0. However when I updated the firmware the region free is not set now to nothing just shows "--". Havent played much with it yet.

monty58

My player arrived this morning. It included a piece of paper with instructions on how to make it multi-regional which are a little misleading. To get the desired '0' you don't press the '0' key; the screen is set at Region 2 so scrolling with the down arrow on the keypad takes you to '0' then press play to ok it. You also go in to the settings to set the scart to RGB as well. (yes it does have a scart!) I haven't tried the firmware and I can't say that I'm going to either; I doubt that a new download is going to alter the picture quality which is actually quite average. On recommendations I bought the Skyworth player the other week but compared to my 3 year old Philips the picture quality was horrendous. So the Skyworth went back. The picture quality on this Yamada is slightly better but only just. And the disc tray has to be seen to be believed; it's so flimsy it's as thin as a cigarette paper! I've learned my lesson the hard way; this Yamada is probably going back and I'll wait that little bit longer for quality players to come out that do DivX etc. for not much extra cash. If you want something that'll play anything; and I mean anything then this is the player for you. But if your first priority is picture quality then look elsewhere.