Hiteck players from Target

[madymo3d]

Anyone has experience with this brand? It's not in the DVD players database, nothing showed up in the forums, very little showed up in a google newsgroup search. Someone here must have seen one, purchased one, or otherwise used one. Several of them on Target.com says it plays MPEG4. Just wondering how they are compared to other low-cost brands(Apex, Coby, etc).

[steelers1]

Just wondered if anyone had tried theese yet. If they are halfway decent this would be a good deal especially if they do play MPEG4 like the discription says http://www.target.com/gp/search.html/ref=/602-1443329-0127849?%5Fencoding=UTF8&index=t...eywords=hiteck

[WesleyHester]

I haven't tried these players and I've seen another "out of no where, who are they" brand at Wal-Mart called - ilo. They, ilo, seem to have a complete line of stuff: dvd players, dvd recorders, displays, mp3 players, etc. for very low prices. I just haven't heard of them or Hiteck until very recently.

[tipstir]

Mintek, Apex and now Hiteck basically from the same manufacturer in China. I own the Mintek line of players they are well made. Hiteck players are the same as Apex they might be lower end, I'll have to check into it? Prices are good at Target!

[WesleyHester]

tipstir is right. Several "makes" or "brands" of DVD players are in fact off the very same assembly line. Someone posted back to a reply I made in another thread that DVD makers simply get OEM parts from all over, parts that other makers may use too and I'm sure that is the case (i.e. two different companys with similar faceplates, drive specs, etc.) But what I was saying is that some companys actually OEM the ENTIRE player - they have it built to order to their specifications. Dell and GoVideo recently had network players that were obviously made by two Chinese manufacturers which had already been selling the same players in Asia with different names for some time. Why would a startup company with little capital or even large corporation like Dell try to build a multi-million dollar DVD player manufacturing plant when they both can just have some other company make it for them to their specifications and just go about selling and marketing it with their brand name?
I deal mainly with DVD players with Karaoke features and that market is the same way: less than half a dozen actual manufacturers put out several dozens of different "name brand" players.