pioneer dvd player 353

[jofrad]

im planning on buying the pioneer 353 dvd player and just wanted to make sure about something before i buy it

on the reports, it says that it is a very goo dvd player and it plays vcd's and svcd's, but does anyone know if it will play on common cd-r's that u can buy?

thanx

[Chad Page]

I just bought one today... so far so good, except that I encoded most of my VCD's with 48khz audio (non-spec). My DV-333 handles those fine but the DV-353 has different software and forces 44.1khz playback which is slow. In it's favor, it holds audio/video sync which implies that they put extra care in it... (29.97*44.1/48 ) comes out to an odd FPS which it should not be expected to sync to. It seems to play MP3's well too.

As for media I for the most part only use Taiyo Yuden disks, so I can't help much there.

[Erwin]

I bought the Pioneer DV-250 and it plays CD-Rs from Office Depot, Imation, Verbatim (the best ), Memorex, and TDK. I played all of the xVCDs that I made last year. That must be why I could never get the old Pioneer DVD players to play my xVCDs b/c they were all at 48khz. The Pioneer DV-250 handles them fine, however, I think I am now capturing at 44.1 khz with MMC on the ATI card using the MMC_Reg_Tools

[slanskye]

Just bought the DV-250 at Wal-Mart for $98+tx after reading other post at http://www.vcdhelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=108374&highlight=pioneer+dv250. Couldn't find any info on Pioneer site or Wal-mart on line or in DVD players list here, so called store and they had a bunch. Manual is same for DV-353/DV-250/DV-251. Don't make xVCDs so can't test that, but played Memorex DVD R/W short DVD clips and one VCD clip on maxell CD-R/W no problem.