The Ultimate DVD Player

[Kahless]

Why can't a company make a "perfect" DVD player.
It seems that with every DVD player I think about buying there is a major drawback for me not to buy it.
Such as not having one of the following features:

Excelent quality playback for all formats
VCD
SVCD (In
XVCD a high
XSVCD bitrate)
MP3 (up to a high bitrate like 320)
Mini-DVD
DVD-R
Progressive Scan
component output
Either Built-In Dolby Digital Decoder or
Built-In DTS Decoder
DTS Output
Very Reliable
All the features of the high end models


Sure all these features would rise the cost of the player, but they did a good job and made it as as flawless as possible everyone would want it knowing that it was the best that money could buy.
I know I would buy it if it had everything I said, even if it was like $900 or something.





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[vitualis]

XVCD, XSVCD and mini-DVD (flawless) is a big ask as none of these are standards. From a manufacturer's perspective, why should they even care about making their machine play formats well, that aren't even standards?

Surely, a "perfect" DVD player is one that plays DVDs "perfectly". If they support VCD and SVCD, these standards should be perfectly implemented too. Anything else (e.g., XVCD, XSVCD, mini-DVD) is really just bonus.

Remember formats such as X(S)VCD and mini-DVDs are really just exploitations of features that the manufacturer never even though of.

Regards.

_________________
Michael Tam

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[Kahless]

"XVCD, XSVCD and mini-DVD (flawless) is a big ask as none of these are standards. From a manufacturer's perspective, why should they even care about making their machine play formats well, are aren't even standards?

Surely, a "perfect" DVD player is one that plays DVDs "perfectly". If they support VCD and SVCD, these standards should be perfectly implemented too. Anything else (e.g., XVCD, XSVCD, mini-DVD) is really just bonus.

Remember formats such as X(S)VCD and mini-DVDs are really just exploitations of features that the manufacturer never even though of.

Regards."





They should care because the consumer wants it. We are the ones who dictate the market. If we want these features we should get them. They should give them to us for fear that some other company will do it and get a larger piece of the market.

[vitualis]

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On 2001-09-02 07:22:33, Kahless wrote:
They should care because the consumer wants it. We are the ones who dictate the market. If we want these features we should get them. They should give them to us for fear that some other company will do it and get a larger piece of the market.
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Absolutely true. However, I would suggest that of all the DVD players sold, less that 1% of the consumers would care about relatively esoteric things like XVCD, XSVCD and miniDVD.

I'd bet that most of the people who buy DVD players in Western countries wouldn't even know what a "VCD" was.

Regards.