The german publisher Heise.de reports in their online newsticker that the German discounter Aldi Nord offers a new 3rd generation DVD player with DivX support that includes quarter pixels (QPEL) and Global Motion Compensation (GMC). Like the Elta 8883, this player also uses the Mediatek MT1389 chipset.

The chip used in this player ought to play back DivX 3.11, DivX 4.x and 5.x with QPel (motion estimation up to quarter pixels) and GMC (global motion compensation) with bitrates up to 8 MBit/s (DivX 5.x up to 10 MBit/s) but the chip is only understands 1-Warp-Point GMC, so on can expect problems during playback of XviD with GMC and Nero Ditial MPEG-4.


DivX files were played back without complaints, only during fast forwarding or backwards the player had some small timeouts. Also older XviD files caused some problems. They were played back much too slow and sometime caused the playback to stop for a few seconds.

Further problems came up during playback of MP3 and WMA. The device was not able to play WM9 files with 320 kBit/s, while ID3 tags are currently unknown to the player at all.


The drive offers an integrated Dolby Digital (AC3 5.1) decoder and offers support for progressive scan if supported by the displaying device.

Unfortunately the original offer is unavailable from the Aldi website now. Interesting is the very low price of only 80 Euro, compared to more than 100 Euro for the Elta player.