Posted by {{{{{Welcome}}}}} on 09/02/05 07:34

Thus spaketh GTS:
> "Jonathan" <digitaltoast@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1125567228.468476.50420@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> 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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