Posted by GTS on 12/26/25 11:26

"Jonathan" <digitaltoast@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Need a new budget DVD/xvid player.
Seem to be various versions of the DK Digital range, such as DVD339,
DVD500 and DVD915.
There's also the Novatech offering for �43 inc vat
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?NOV-DVDIVX
They all seem to do what I want, but I can't find reviews or comparison
of model features anywhere.
The DVD-500 looks OK to me:
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?DK-DVDIVX
and is available various places from �40-�45. Any reasons not to go
for it?
Does it multi-region OK?
Thanks!
I have the DK915 player - very happy with it. It handles everything I've
thrown at it with a good RGB widescreen picture and proper 5.1 sound output.
However in common with any player using the Mediatek MT1389x chips (there
are many) it stutters when playing packed-bitstream avi's - no problem
though you just use Mpeg4Modifier (free download) to unpack the bitstream
before burning it to disk.
Personally I've never understood why anyone packs the bitstream when
encoding a file - it does not make the file smaller or improve the quality,
so knowing some players struggle with them why do it?
Graham

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