DVD + DivX player £25 delivered

allthatmularky

Decent buy - Umax Kazuki DVD-2800X MPEG4/DivX/DVD Player for £28.99 - plus 99p postage if you spend over £30 (code for 99p postage is easter99p)


http://svp.co.uk/products-solo.php?pid=2344

saveafewquid

computerwoman wrote: »

this looks to good to be true
are you sure its not an APRIL FOOL
all the big companies do them,
but if not it would be something I'd like to get my hands on,
nice one
cw

Not an April fool as far as I know. Seems a logical next step in PC to TV technology. Not out as far as I can tell, but seeing as it's on the horizon I'm gonna hold out (i.e not buy a divx player, just wait for this to be launched)

saveafewquid

ppg wrote: »

if you have a spare IDE hard-drive what about something like this

http://svp.co.uk/products-solo.php?pid=1627

That actually looks great, though I seem to have trouble using Memory card with my laptop (need to sort that out really!). So a USB player would be an ideal option for me. Seems like something like this may already be out there, seeing as an SD Card player is available.

Anyone know of an available product please share!!

ramjam_3

ppg wrote: »

if you have a spare IDE hard-drive what about something like this

http://svp.co.uk/products-solo.php?pid=1627

Here are some with the hard disks included. Includes buyer comments too.
http://www.aria.co.uk/Products?search=Media+Centre+Compact&x=21&y=15&searchCat=63

Personally, I'm not a huge fan of Aria, but I've never had any trouble buying from SVP.

Lakeuk

My Kazuki DVD-2800X came today from Ebuyer, minor problem to start with in that it has european plug attached instead of UK plug (strange considering it has a union jack logo on the back of the box), luckily my FTA Satellite decoder has the same plug but has an UK adaptor I can borrow till I get a reply from ebuyer on whether they forgot to send an adapter.

Been playing with it tonight and I'm loving it, I've not tried everything yet but so far this is was I've found-
*Commercial DVD's - couple I've tried are ok (to be expected)
*Personal burned DVD+RW - 3 (hi bandwidth) episodes of 'Worst Xmas of my Life' with menu burned using Sony's DVD Architect - played with no issues
*1Gb USB Flash containing a TV recording (hi bandwidth) of Life on Mars (no compression as saved from satellite feed) and 2 xvid programmes from net - TV recording played distorted but I expected this as I've read the usb interface isn't 2.0, xvids played no problem with excellent quality
*1Gb SD Card - 2 episodes of Life on Mars as xvid which were created from satellites recordings and converted to xvid using AutoGK - xvids played no problem with excellent quality
*320Gb Seagate USB External HHD - this is my backup drive for my PC, it reconised the drive ok and spent a few minutes identifying directories that had possible music, pics or video file, once this finished it got it's knickers in a twist, the first file in the list I think wasn't supported but it thought it was a music file so tried something before giving up and going onto the next file (not good when you have 2000+ files), whilst this was going on nothing on the remote would work although you could stop it on the player it self but press play on the player and it'll attempt it again. It would be better if you could just select the file, tell it if it's music, picture or video then it decides if that file only is compatible, if not it stops to allow you to manually select another. I think if I just had xvids on the HHD then I might of been ok, but I don't think it's aimed at having such a large HHD attached. (Maybe a future fireware update with improve this)

Still to try:-
Hi bandwidth MPEG2's just dragged to DVD+/-RW
Divx on all media
Xvid on DVD

Positives:
cheap £25
Size - nice and small (travel size)
dvd tray load quiet
dvd play itself quiet
Ease of use to play xvid's from USB flash / SD Cards (remember to put them in upside down)

Negatives:
Euro plug (no adapter for UK with mine - maybe mistake)
Manual - very basic, doesn't give specs (what are remote buttons 'RAN' and 'PBC')

Unknowns:
Multi region - don't have any discs to test

monterey_2

allthatmularky wrote: »

Decent buy - Umax Kazuki DVD-2800X MPEG4/DivX/DVD Player for £28.99 - plus 99p postage if you spend over £30 (code for 99p postage is easter99p)


http://svp.co.uk/products-solo.php?pid=2344

I got mine from SVP for £24.99 (They matched the Ebuyer price) and 99p shipping on one of their special weekend shipping deals.

Mine came with a normal UK plug.
Very happy with the player. All my DivX seem fine on it so far.

M-

alanrowell

ppg wrote: »

if you have a spare IDE hard-drive what about something like this

http://svp.co.uk/products-solo.php?pid=1627

Something RATHER similar from Maplin

https://www.maplin.co.uk/Search.aspx?criteria=A50FW&DOY=20m4

ms_mark

Just bought this from Ebuyer

Eltax DV-254 HDMI DVD - USB & Card Reader - Upscaler on the link below:

https://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/104108/rb/27161865874

If you sign up to Google Checkout (which you can do through the ebuyer site) you get a £10 discount on the item. If you do this and choose the five day delivery option the item is £34.68 delivered to the door. From the spec it seems to play absolutely everything and it has a card reader and USB interface.

ChuckleVision_2

ms_mark wrote: »

Just bought this from Ebuyer

Eltax DV-254 HDMI DVD - USB & Card Reader - Upscaler on the link below:

https://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/104108/rb/27161865874

If you sign up to Google Checkout (which you can do through the ebuyer site) you get a £10 discount on the item. If you do this and choose the five day delivery option the item is £34.68 delivered to the door. From the spec it seems to play absolutely everything and it has a card reader and USB interface.

Excellent. Thanks. just what I wanted. I've already got a 360 gig extrnal hdd so this will be ideal to play my videos.

saveafewquid

Something like this is what would work well for me, got a spare 2.5" laptop drive lying around;
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2-5-HDD-Player-Multimedia-AV-Portable-MP4-MP3-DVD_W0QQitemZ280107619433QQihZ018QQcategoryZ86758QQcmdZViewItem