What player does everyone use to play their discs off of?

[zanos]

I have an apex 1500 and whenever I play any of the discs I've made off of my panasonic e80 I will always get the occassional 1-2 second slow motioning of a few scenes here and there. This doesn't happen in my dvd-rom just on the apex. Is there a better cheap player out there that can handle panasonic made dvdrs?

[donpedro]

You didn't specify dvd recorder.

Problem can be that you are using bittrate that is too high. That is my experience with recorder Pan DBR-30 and player Mintek 2580. When recorded in XP mode 1h15min to whole disc it had problem reading it on the end. When using SP mode, it worked fine.

[zanos]

I've edited my post so I'm a bit more clear now about the machine I use. I guess that's very possible that the bitrate setting is too high but I don't use XP mode that often. Most of the time I use FR mode and it still does it, and as far as I can tell the apex I have can handle pretty high bitrate settings.

[urbanlegend]

I can play discs recorded from Panasonic DMR-E50 in the following without a hicup

Panasonic RP82
Panasonic RV31
Pioneer DV-333

I also have the Pioneer DV-414 and this player plays the discs fine but if I try to ffwd or rewind it might freeze up or jitter and it hates Memorex discs :P

[Alfer]

I use my Panasonic A110 and up until it died last weekend, my Oritron 100 to playback +R discs recorded on my Philips DVDR75 and my NEC 1300 (+/-R).

All played flawlessly.

Alfer

[CHAOS]

Pioneer is my choice, i have 3 players i bought 2 of them back before dvdr's were even a thought to the mian stream and they play every format recorded with any program that i have thrown into them, even with the dvdr's made with programs that would not play on other dvd players.
Wlamart even has a couple that are under $100.00, of course they don't have hacks like the apex's to play imports but if that is not a concern then pioneer's have never let me down.

Pioneer DVD/CD/MP3 Player DV-250

Pioneer Progressive Scan DVD/CD/MP3 Player DV-260

Although i am thinking of picking up a cyberhome from target to see how they handle all the diff. formats and they also will play multi region & pal dvd's
CyberHome Progressive Scan DVD - CHDVD500

[dreamchaser]

I play my DVD+R & RW disks that were recorder from an Apex DRX-9000 on a GE 1101PA That I hacked to be region and macrovision free. I can play and record any DVD made anywhere in the wold whether it be Pal or NTFS.

[Redd]

Pioneer is my choice

I agree. Best in their inexpensive line.

[CHAOS]

I play my DVD+R & RW disks that were recorder from an Apex DRX-9000 on a GE 1101PA That I hacked to be region and macrovision free. I can play and record any DVD made anywhere in the wold whether it be Pal or NTFS.

Yep, i have a GE 1101PB that i updated the firmware so i could play import dvd's, except i have some that are widescreen and i can't get them to play widescreen no matter how i set the options!!

Also i had some dvd+r disc's i recorded with an older version of nero and they would not play in the GE but they played perfect in my pioneer's, even my DVD/LD combo player. had the same problem with a friends apex.

My sampo took a dive so i have to check out some other cheap players that will convert, and i hate apex's