shunty

right, I need a new dvd player for the house around £80-£100....
I did have a cyberhome, but found that to be a bit rough
got to be able to play everything obviously inc vcd2

what's the best ones available ??
cheers

shunty

Andy Tang

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I ordered the Umax Yamada DVD-2100 last Thursday and it turned up on Friday!!

Basically £65 for the player and £5 for 1-2 courier delivery.

A very good player! DVD picture is better than my Pioneer DVL919 (top of the range player 3 years ago!). The way to tell is to play a movie with a dark scene and the black usually gets a little blocky, although there was no blockiness with the Umax player!!

According to DVDHelp it will cope with the following media & standards:

CDR
CDRW
DVD-R
DVD-RW
DVD+R
DVD+RW
VCD
SVCD
XVCD
XSVCD
MP3

And lots more, check out the link for full details!

As a bonus the player is mutli-region out of the box, and I've tried it with Region 1, Region 2, Region 3 and Region 0, all of which worked faultlessly!!

And it's not a bad looking player:



Cheers
Andy

PS - No connection with SVP Communications, otehr using them for cheap CDR's and a very cheap, yet multi functioned DVD player!

pwebb

cyberhome have moved on a bit - the new 505 is a cracker - if you need to be able to play all types of cd-r based mini dvd and vcd then it is probably is the one to go for.
£99 all-in from second spin

http://www.second-spin.com/acatalog/...ml&CatalogBody

Luke

I dont own one. But i was very close to getting a "Yamada" it is great. But got a marantz off a friend that also is good.

shunty

lads, thanks very much for the info, sorry for the delay replying, been really busy
Will be ordering the umax yamada 1 today...right now in fact!!

cheers

shunty

shunty

Andy, you used any of the overprint cd's from that site, I need some more cdr's & was going to give them a go.

shunty

Andy Tang

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I use the 80 min (*100) and I think they are about £14 a pack!

I was going to order some overprints next time! Let me know how you get on with them!

shunty

just ordered them both...I'll let you know how I get on with those discs

shunty

Andy Tang

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Just to say that the basic cheap silver ones have worked working at 40x as well as overburning to 85 minutes (I haven't tried more than that yet!!!)

shunty

Andy,
got me dvd unit yesterday (I was off on a days hol) & I am well impresed. I am going to order another one today for the bedroom.
Havn't tried the cdr's yet though, BUT they came branded as Imation, which are great quality cd's

cheers

shunty

Andy Tang

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I've been trying to decide whether to get another one as well!!