New Divx/Xvid Standalone player in UK

[VCDHunter]

On sale at Maplin Electronics for £79

This impressive multiregion DVD player will play practically any disc you put in it! If you download movies or create your own discs, then this is the player for you. It handles all versions of DivX and the new XviD MPEG-4 compressed video files. It also handles MP3 and WMA compressed audio files, as well as JPEG picture files. It can play back these files on non-authored discs, so you can store MPEG video, MP3 audio and JPEG picture files all on the same data CD or DVD and play them straight off the disc with this fantastic unit. Specifications:
Disc formats: DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, VCD,
SVCD, XVCD, CD-Audio, CD-R, CD-RW, MP3-CD, MP3-DVD, WMA-CD, WMA-DVD, JPEG-CD, JPEG-DVD
Video formats: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX 3.11, DivX 4.x,
DivX 5.x, XviD
Audio formats: Dolby Digital, DTS, MP3, WMA
Video outputs: SCART, S-Video, Composite Video
Audio outputs: Stereo, 5.1 Channel (fully decoded), Coaxial Digital,
Optical Digital
Setup-Menu:
General Setup: TV Display / Angle Mark / OSD Language / Captions /
ScreenSaver
Speaker Setup: Downmix (LT/RT/Stereo)
Audio Setup: SPDIF Output / Dual/Mono / Compression
Preferences: TV Type / Video Output / Audio / Subtitle / Disc Menu / Parental / Password / Defaults / SmartNavi
Other features:
Progressive scanning
Multiregion – plays back discs with any region code Multisystem PAL/NTSC playback/conversion MPEGISO, DVD-MPEGISO – plays back un-authored video, audio and picture files; even on the same disc! miniDVD/cDVD playback
Package Content:
• Remote Control
• Batteries
• Video Cable (Yellow)
• Audio Cable (red & white)
• Manual

[Jo]

Please tell me this supports DVD Audio, if it does I will have 10 of them.

[RabidDog]

not new Old, I have one for nine months now. Not dvd audio.

[Jo]

RabidDog

what is it like does it really play all the things it says? what wood you give it out of 1 to 10? also iv seen a dvd player in the uk that supports dvd audio and its only £85

[Jo]

If it does not support DVD audio what is MP3-DVD? Im sure that’s the same thing you just burn the mp3s onto a DVD and listen to them in the player.

[andyp1]

If it does not support DVD audio what is MP3-DVD? Im sure that’s the same thing you just burn the mp3s onto a DVD and listen to them in the player.

No it isn't ! Asolutely not.
There are some guides on this site showing you how to make an MP3-DVD or Audio-DVD.

[Jo]

Thanks for the info andyp1


Does anyone no if the PS2 plays dvd mp3s



and i no something this player does not play. dvd ram but i guess it dont really need that anyway.

[RabidDog]

mp3-dvd = data dvd with 999 mp3 trax
Dvd-Audio= special type of DVD containing 5.1 @96khz@24bits
DIametrically opposed in terms of quality

AFAIK this is the dvx6100/dvx6600 " SmartNavi " gives it away.. its good but not perfect. Has a problem with aspect ratio on playback (xvid/divx) which the company have yet to rectify.

[Jo]

Thanks for that info there RabidDog


Just one quick thing iv heard they have firmware upgrades out now or comeing out soon, what i wanted to no is. once you download the firmware upgrade how do you install it into the dvd player do you just burn it to dvd and run it in the dvd player?

also one other thing i dont understand what you said, was this dvd player wont play DVD Audio. well i tried Elvis Presley: 30 Hits DVD-Audio and it worked fine is this what you ment by DVD Audio or was you talking about something else?

[RabidDog]

Actually you unzip/uncompress the file and stick it on cdr. .cdrw. .dvdr. .dvdrw (DVX6100.rom) (I wouldnt waste a DVD tho).
Maybe it can play "proper" dvd-audio.. are you sure its not just playing back the Cd audio on the same disc??(elvis)

[Jo]

Hi RabidDog

Thanks for your reply, no it’s a DVD I got it from amazon and its DVD Audio 5.1. This Elvis DVD even works in my PS2 so im not sure what’s going on but its says DVD Audio 5.1 have a look at the link below thats the DVD Audio disk iv got.



http://www.dvdempire.com/Exec/v4_item.asp?olduserid=00000766835515&item_id=459689&tab=...835515&redir=1

[RabidDog]

read this
http://www.tacet.de/FAQE.pdf
goto page 7. So you are playing a dvd(-video) just with no picture.

[Jo]

yes there is no picture just sound dvd audio

[RabidDog]

No! you are playing a dvd(-video) just with no picture. This is stored on the same disc. You are getting 5.1 surround sound but the full dvdaudio is of even greater quality. I believe that dvd-audio will prevail over SA-CD. Who knows what new audio format will come out with Blu-ray etc etc.

[Jo]

ok thanks for all the info

[RabidDog]

SACD also stores two "images" on each disc. One is a CD image that can be read and played on a normal Cdplayer and the other much higher quality tracks is read by the SACD player. But this is too much information, you're thinking, jeez does this nerd always have to have the last post!!

[Jo]

Ha Ha


thanks for the info mate

[kauser]

name of dvd player please

[broadwayrock]

Maplin has two divx players on sale.

The one described is the Yamada DivX DVD PlayerDVX6600. This is generally regarded as the best divx dvd player on the market.

Maplin have another one at £59, which is the Tangent D-400 DiVX DVD Player.

I have never heard of this brand or whether they have regular firmware updates like the Yamada.

Pioneer have a dvd player that can play both DVD-Audio and SACD but is very expensive compared to regular dvd players.