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Thu Oct 28, 2004 6:35 am Post subject:
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I'm looking at the following:
Philips DVP642 (Plays DVD, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/+RW, CD, CD-R/RW, VCD, SVCD, MP3-CD, MPEG-4,
Picture-CD and DivX 3.11/4.x/5.x)
Magnavox MDV456/17 (Plays DVD, DVD+R/RW, CD, CD-R/RW, MP3 CD, VCD, SVCD, JPEG (with MP3))
RCA DRC108N (Plays back DVD, DVD-R/-RW, DVD+R/+RW, CD, CD-R/RW, VCD, SVCD, MP3, WMA and
JPEG discs )
RCA DRC240N (Plays back DVD, DVD-R/-RW, DVD+R/+RW, CD, CD-R/RW, VCD, SVCD, MP3, WMA, JPEG
and MPEG4 (DivX) discs)
Are any of these brands or models known for being good or bad? I probably want the
Magnavox MDV456/17 or RCA DRC108N because both will display jpeg files (I think) and Divx
may not be important. It's for a gift. Are Korean made consumer electronics products
considered as good a Japanese? RCA may be Korean. I don't know about the others.
I'd appreciate any suggestions or comments. Thanks.
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qnr
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Thu Oct 28, 2004 11:40 am Post subject:
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On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 21:35:16 -0500, Joe_Gondola wrote:
| Quote: | Are any of these brands or models known for being good or bad? I
probably want the Magnavox MDV456/17 or RCA DRC108N because both will
display jpeg files (I think) and Divx may not be important. It's for a
gift. Are Korean made consumer electronics products considered as good a
Japanese? RCA may be Korean. I don't know about the others. I'd
appreciate any suggestions or comments. Thanks.
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I have the Philips DVP642 - it plays JPEGs. One thing I don't like (which
may not matter to you, since you state DivX might not be important) is
that it doesn't seem to like mpeg4/DivX etc. on DVD-R/DVD+R -- seems to
be an indexing problem, which causes annoying skips. They work great on
CDs though.
Terry
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Colon Terminus
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Thu Oct 28, 2004 4:19 pm Post subject:
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Avoid the Phillips unit ... they are junk.
Of the ones you mentioned I'd choose RCA, we had one before I switched to a
Media Center PC and it was an excellent player. Played just about anything
we stuck in it.
<Joe_Gondola@no.spam> wrote in message
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| Quote: | I'm looking at the following:
Philips DVP642 (Plays DVD, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/+RW, CD, CD-R/RW, VCD, SVCD,
MP3-CD, MPEG-4,
Picture-CD and DivX 3.11/4.x/5.x)
Magnavox MDV456/17 (Plays DVD, DVD+R/RW, CD, CD-R/RW, MP3 CD, VCD, SVCD,
JPEG (with MP3))
RCA DRC108N (Plays back DVD, DVD-R/-RW, DVD+R/+RW, CD, CD-R/RW, VCD, SVCD,
MP3, WMA and
JPEG discs )
RCA DRC240N (Plays back DVD, DVD-R/-RW, DVD+R/+RW, CD, CD-R/RW, VCD, SVCD,
MP3, WMA, JPEG
and MPEG4 (DivX) discs)
Are any of these brands or models known for being good or bad? I probably
want the
Magnavox MDV456/17 or RCA DRC108N because both will display jpeg files (I
think) and Divx
may not be important. It's for a gift. Are Korean made consumer
electronics products
considered as good a Japanese? RCA may be Korean. I don't know about the
others.
I'd appreciate any suggestions or comments. Thanks. |
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Pug Fugley
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Fri Oct 29, 2004 5:45 am Post subject:
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Jeez man, all of those are pretty much junk. Where are you shopping??
<Joe_Gondola@no.spam> wrote in message
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| Quote: | I'm looking at the following:
Philips DVP642 (Plays DVD, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/+RW, CD, CD-R/RW, VCD, SVCD,
MP3-CD, MPEG-4,
Picture-CD and DivX 3.11/4.x/5.x)
Magnavox MDV456/17 (Plays DVD, DVD+R/RW, CD, CD-R/RW, MP3 CD, VCD, SVCD,
JPEG (with MP3))
RCA DRC108N (Plays back DVD, DVD-R/-RW, DVD+R/+RW, CD, CD-R/RW, VCD, SVCD,
MP3, WMA and
JPEG discs )
RCA DRC240N (Plays back DVD, DVD-R/-RW, DVD+R/+RW, CD, CD-R/RW, VCD, SVCD,
MP3, WMA, JPEG
and MPEG4 (DivX) discs)
Are any of these brands or models known for being good or bad? I probably
want the
Magnavox MDV456/17 or RCA DRC108N because both will display jpeg files (I
think) and Divx
may not be important. It's for a gift. Are Korean made consumer
electronics products
considered as good a Japanese? RCA may be Korean. I don't know about the
others.
I'd appreciate any suggestions or comments. Thanks. |
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Fri Oct 29, 2004 5:54 am Post subject:
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On 28 Oct 2004 20:19:44 GMT, laseranddvdfan@aol.com (LASERandDVDfan) wrote:
| Quote: | I'm looking at the following:
Philips DVP642 (Plays DVD, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/+RW, CD, CD-R/RW, VCD, SVCD,
MP3-CD, MPEG-4,
Picture-CD and DivX 3.11/4.x/5.x)
Magnavox MDV456/17 (Plays DVD, DVD+R/RW, CD, CD-R/RW, MP3 CD, VCD, SVCD, JPEG
(with MP3))
RCA DRC108N (Plays back DVD, DVD-R/-RW, DVD+R/+RW, CD, CD-R/RW, VCD, SVCD,
MP3, WMA and
JPEG discs )
RCA DRC240N (Plays back DVD, DVD-R/-RW, DVD+R/+RW, CD, CD-R/RW, VCD, SVCD,
MP3, WMA, JPEG
and MPEG4 (DivX) discs)
Are any of these brands or models known for being good or bad?
All the brands you've specified are known for just being plain bad, especially
RCA.
Are Korean made consumer electronics
products
considered as good a Japanese?
Personally, no. LG DVD players seem iffy while Samsung and Daewoo are crap.
RCA may be Korean. I don't know about the
others.
Philips is Dutch. Magnavox is a name that went from being a Philips property
to a Funai property back to a Philips property.
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I didn't know that about Magnavox.
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It should be important to note that not all Philips and Magnavox DVD players
were made by Philips. Some models from these brands were OEMed by Funai.
About the only thing that's worse than RCA is Funai when it comes to DVD
players.
RCA is French. It used to be an American company. RCA was purchased by
General Electric in 1986. GE dismantled RCA and sold the pieces to Thomson,
which is owned by the French government.
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I knew Thompson and RCA were French. I didn't know they were owned by the government. I
bought a GE VCR a few years back that was crap, made in Korea so I thought the RCA's might
be Korean made as well.
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The only thing that remains of RCA under GE ownership is NBC.
I'd appreciate any suggestions or comments. Thanks.
Sony, Pioneer, or JVC.
It sounds like a JVC, like the XVN310B, would be the ideal player as it
supports the stuff that the players you've listed will work with, in addition
to being a superior quality player to Philips, Magnavox, and RCA.
Plus, the JVC model I've specified doesn't cost an arm and a leg for what
you're getting. MSRP is around $79. - Reinhart
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I see PC Richard has the JVC for that price. I think you may be right about the features
based on their website http://www.jvc.com/product.jsp?modelId=MODL027150&pathId=10
If the description says Jpeg can I assume they are talking about viewing still pictures
from jpeg files?
Just in case they are out of stock, what do you think of this Sony from Best Buy?
Sony $89.99
Model: DVP-NS575P
DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/+RW, DVD-VR, CD, CD-R/RW, MP3-CD and JPEG playback
Thank you very much for all the valuable information! I cross-posted my reply in case
someone in another group wants to comment. |
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Fri Oct 29, 2004 5:55 am Post subject:
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On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 02:40:20 -0500, qnr <terry@timestorm.ross.com> wrote:
| Quote: | On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 21:35:16 -0500, Joe_Gondola wrote:
Are any of these brands or models known for being good or bad? I
probably want the Magnavox MDV456/17 or RCA DRC108N because both will
display jpeg files (I think) and Divx may not be important. It's for a
gift. Are Korean made consumer electronics products considered as good a
Japanese? RCA may be Korean. I don't know about the others. I'd
appreciate any suggestions or comments. Thanks.
I have the Philips DVP642 - it plays JPEGs. One thing I don't like (which
may not matter to you, since you state DivX might not be important) is
that it doesn't seem to like mpeg4/DivX etc. on DVD-R/DVD+R -- seems to
be an indexing problem, which causes annoying skips. They work great on
CDs though.
Terry
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Fri Oct 29, 2004 5:57 am Post subject:
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On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 12:19:01 GMT, "Colon Terminus" <Colon_Terminus@hotmail.com> wrote:
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Avoid the Phillips unit ... they are junk.
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I knew their CD burners had a bad reputation. I didn't know about their other products.
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Of the ones you mentioned I'd choose RCA, we had one before I switched to a
Media Center PC and it was an excellent player. Played just about anything
we stuck in it.
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Thank you.
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Joe_Gondola@no.spam> wrote in message
news:smm0o095bhgd6qdommiokl960gj20d2hop@4ax.com...
I'm looking at the following:
Philips DVP642 (Plays DVD, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/+RW, CD, CD-R/RW, VCD, SVCD,
MP3-CD, MPEG-4,
Picture-CD and DivX 3.11/4.x/5.x)
Magnavox MDV456/17 (Plays DVD, DVD+R/RW, CD, CD-R/RW, MP3 CD, VCD, SVCD,
JPEG (with MP3))
RCA DRC108N (Plays back DVD, DVD-R/-RW, DVD+R/+RW, CD, CD-R/RW, VCD, SVCD,
MP3, WMA and
JPEG discs )
RCA DRC240N (Plays back DVD, DVD-R/-RW, DVD+R/+RW, CD, CD-R/RW, VCD, SVCD,
MP3, WMA, JPEG
and MPEG4 (DivX) discs)
Are any of these brands or models known for being good or bad? I probably
want the
Magnavox MDV456/17 or RCA DRC108N because both will display jpeg files (I
think) and Divx
may not be important. It's for a gift. Are Korean made consumer
electronics products
considered as good a Japanese? RCA may be Korean. I don't know about the
others.
I'd appreciate any suggestions or comments. Thanks.
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Fri Oct 29, 2004 6:00 am Post subject:
Re: Help a newbie pick a DVD player please. |
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On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 01:45:12 GMT, "Pug Fugley" <nosir@not.com> wrote:
| Quote: | Jeez man, all of those are pretty much junk. Where are you shopping??
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The big chains. They have other brands and models too. I just looked at the low cost
models up to around $70 for the Philips and RCA and saw they had the features I wanted,
not knowing what is junk or good. If I knew what was good and what was junk I wouldn't be
here asking. Thank you.
| Quote: | Joe_Gondola@no.spam> wrote in message
news:smm0o095bhgd6qdommiokl960gj20d2hop@4ax.com...
I'm looking at the following:
Philips DVP642 (Plays DVD, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/+RW, CD, CD-R/RW, VCD, SVCD,
MP3-CD, MPEG-4,
Picture-CD and DivX 3.11/4.x/5.x)
Magnavox MDV456/17 (Plays DVD, DVD+R/RW, CD, CD-R/RW, MP3 CD, VCD, SVCD,
JPEG (with MP3))
RCA DRC108N (Plays back DVD, DVD-R/-RW, DVD+R/+RW, CD, CD-R/RW, VCD, SVCD,
MP3, WMA and
JPEG discs )
RCA DRC240N (Plays back DVD, DVD-R/-RW, DVD+R/+RW, CD, CD-R/RW, VCD, SVCD,
MP3, WMA, JPEG
and MPEG4 (DivX) discs)
Are any of these brands or models known for being good or bad? I probably
want the
Magnavox MDV456/17 or RCA DRC108N because both will display jpeg files (I
think) and Divx
may not be important. It's for a gift. Are Korean made consumer
electronics products
considered as good a Japanese? RCA may be Korean. I don't know about the
others.
I'd appreciate any suggestions or comments. Thanks.
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Pug Fugley
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Fri Oct 29, 2004 7:08 am Post subject:
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<Joe_Gondola@nospam.edu> wrote in message
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| Quote: | On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 01:45:12 GMT, "Pug Fugley" <nosir@not.com> wrote:
Jeez man, all of those are pretty much junk. Where are you shopping??
The big chains. They have other brands and models too. I just looked at
the low cost
models up to around $70 for the Philips and RCA and saw they had the
features I wanted,
not knowing what is junk or good. If I knew what was good and what was
junk I wouldn't be
here asking. Thank you.
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For under $70 you can get a Pioneer, Panasonic, JVC, Samsung, Toshiba, or
Sony. Of course don't expect much if you are not willing to spend some
money. You get what you pay for. Buy the cheap player, you get the cheap
player. |
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awknod
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Fri Oct 29, 2004 3:31 pm Post subject:
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Should only get one with an AT attachment, like a DVD rom attachment in a
computer, if the DVD player rom fails, (happens a lot in regular DVD
players) you can easily swap with another. like the Norcent DP300 (Norcent
allows a hardrive to be hooked up, with AT attachment ,plays everything but
DIVX, have it for 2 years still works great (with free firmware the Norcent
even plays with an old cd rom 2 speed,doesn`t even have to be a DVD rom, but
of course CD roms will only play CD`s not DVD`s. Citizen JDVD 3830 is
another.
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Joe_Gondola@nospam.edu> wrote in message
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On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 01:45:12 GMT, "Pug Fugley" <nosir@not.com> wrote:
Jeez man, all of those are pretty much junk. Where are you shopping??
The big chains. They have other brands and models too. I just looked at
the low cost
models up to around $70 for the Philips and RCA and saw they had the
features I wanted,
not knowing what is junk or good. If I knew what was good and what was
junk I wouldn't be
here asking. Thank you.
For under $70 you can get a Pioneer, Panasonic, JVC, Samsung, Toshiba, or
Sony. Of course don't expect much if you are not willing to spend some
money. You get what you pay for. Buy the cheap player, you get the cheap
player.
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Papageno
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Sat Oct 30, 2004 2:39 am Post subject:
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"awknod" <awknod@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | For under $70 you can get a Pioneer, Panasonic, JVC, Samsung, Toshiba,
or
Sony. Of course don't expect much if you are not willing to spend some
money. You get what you pay for. Buy the cheap player, you get the cheap
player.
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That's not true with these units. The cheapest unit is often nearly the
best. There's not much room for product differentiation, and the market is
near saturation.
So the high-price brand names offer only two things that the cheap units
don't:
1. High-price
2. Brand name |
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Michael Bird
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Sat Oct 30, 2004 7:07 am Post subject:
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Six weeks ago my 3 year old Cyberhome 500 bit the dust so I had to go
shopping for an inexpensive (cheap!!) replacement. After shopping around
quite a bit I finally bought a Zenith DVB412 player at Circuit City for
$59.99 - my console TV is a Zenith and has been a good buy so far.
I have quite a few Region 2 dvd's so I needed a unit that I could easily
hack to play every region and found the hack software on the net. It was an
easy download to the HDD and then to make a copy using Nero to a cd-r disk.
Inserted the disk into the player and it bought up the screen for zone
selection. Set the player to Region O and that was all okay. It did change
a couple of settings on the player but that was an easy set up fix. (I had
to reset the size setting for wide screen etc).
It has played everything that I have tried so far. Regions 1, 2 and 3 disks
and widescreen and fullscreen presented no problems. I have the sound going
through my Denon sound system and it has played just fine for my untrained
ears.
For $60 I have no complaints so far. It plays my CD's through the stereo
and the stereo separation is just fine. I have owned a few players over the
years from expensive to the very cheap ($300 Sony's to $39 Cyberhome 300)
and this Zenith both plays well and looks good as well. May be worth
considering.
Michael
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Biz
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Sat Oct 30, 2004 7:20 am Post subject:
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"Papageno" <lhorwinkle@paris.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | "awknod" <awknod@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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For under $70 you can get a Pioneer, Panasonic, JVC, Samsung, Toshiba,
or
Sony. Of course don't expect much if you are not willing to spend some
money. You get what you pay for. Buy the cheap player, you get the
cheap
player.
That's not true with these units. The cheapest unit is often nearly the
best. There's not much room for product differentiation, and the market is
near saturation.
So the high-price brand names offer only two things that the cheap units
don't:
1. High-price
2. Brand name
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Where are you getting your mis-information?
Do some reading at a reputable DVD player forum like www.avsforums.com
You'll see how well regarded (NOT) the cheap APEX, CYberhome, etc.. players
are.... |
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Biz
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Sat Oct 30, 2004 7:38 am Post subject:
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Sorry, that should be www.avsforum.com
| Quote: | Where are you getting your mis-information?
Do some reading at a reputable DVD player forum like www.avsforums.com
You'll see how well regarded (NOT) the cheap APEX, CYberhome, etc..
players
are.... |
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Sat Oct 30, 2004 7:26 pm Post subject:
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On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 03:08:49 GMT, "Pug Fugley" <nosir@not.com> wrote:
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Joe_Gondola@nospam.edu> wrote in message
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On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 01:45:12 GMT, "Pug Fugley" <nosir@not.com> wrote:
Jeez man, all of those are pretty much junk. Where are you shopping??
The big chains. They have other brands and models too. I just looked at
the low cost
models up to around $70 for the Philips and RCA and saw they had the
features I wanted,
not knowing what is junk or good. If I knew what was good and what was
junk I wouldn't be
here asking. Thank you.
For under $70 you can get a Pioneer, Panasonic, JVC, Samsung, Toshiba, or
Sony. Of course don't expect much if you are not willing to spend some
money. You get what you pay for. Buy the cheap player, you get the cheap
player.
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Generally I agree. Sometimes you get less when spending more. It probably depends on the
brand, model and luck. For example I bought an expensive Plextor 12x CD burner a few years
ago ($220 at buy.com and it wasn't their fastest model) that didn't last half as long as
most less expensive models. Thanks. |
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