Digital Video Essentials in Germany?

[cribeiro]

Hi! I don't know if this is the proper place to post this (I hope I don't bother moderators if they have to change it... Sorry!)... I have done a search in the forums, and decided to go for the DVE, after what I have read and compared with the Avia one. The point is I live in Germany, and I have seen the prices you quote to be much cheaper than the only one I found here... You say around 20 euro, while I found it here for more than 40... Is there anybody who can tell me where to buy it cheap in Germany? Shall I better order it from UK?
I hope you can help, thanks,

Alberto

[docsmith2k1]

Try the link below for £15

DVE FROM PLAY (http://www.play.com/play247.asp?page=search&adudisc=y)

[paul1672]

try dvdsoon mate
about £12.99

[cribeiro]

Thanks! No delivery charges? Amazing! That means I'd pay plainly the 15 pounds, or are there any extra costs? Is this the best actual offer you can find?

edit: Ok, second question was answered while I wrote that...

[cribeiro]

I tried dvdsoon, but it looks like a canadian site... How much is a canadian dollar in euros?? They quote 30.91 $ (canadian) but I don't know how much that is...
Maybe there is another dvdsoon...

[CIMPSA]

Try some currency convertor like

www.xe.com

I´ve got mine from splash (see threads about this). Came to some 10 € aprx.

Saludos

[Reiner]

Moved into the appropiate forum.

[cribeiro]

Hi again.
Reiner, thanks... I didn't know where to put it. I am sorry.
CIMPSA, the price now in www.spashdvd.com (I suppose you refer to that), is 13 pounds, plus one to get it in Germany... I did a search here, and that special offer was for a very short time... Do you expect something like that will happen again?

[Mark Haywood]

Isn't DVDTalk the appropriate forum for this? :grin:

Sigs

[CIMPSA]

cribeiro, if I were you, I´ll get it from Play, considering how unreliable splash is at the moment.

By the way, be aware that I find DVE quite difficult to follow (technnical language in english), and also very user-unfriendly menus.

I think there is an spanish version (I found out after I bought mine). Have a look in some of the spanish internet retailers.

[cribeiro]

Ok, thanks for the advice. I am not afraid of the technical english, I work in english daily (ok, BROKEN english...). Anyway, I agree it would be better to have it in my mother tonge.
I will try to find it, and I'll avoid splash...

[paul1672]

on the dvdsoon website bring up the digita video essentials item and then click on the price of the disc and it will bring up a currency convertor to allow you to convert the price into several different currency's including euro's.
no need to look for a currency convertor elsewhere.
hope that helps.

[paul1672]

by the way,dvdsoon is reliable in case your wondering.
i've ordered over 50 dvd's from them and they usually arrive within 1 week of being posted.

[Gary D]

i got a copy of this a couple of weeks ago, its not bad, but it seeems to be a bit OTT in its descriptions of the tests. Indeed in some places i forgot what test i was meant to be doing and had to watch the the intro again. Also its not very friendly to navigate. But it got the job done.

Also think about buying a Sound Level Meter without one most of the audio tests are pretty pointless.

Gary

[cribeiro]

Thanks. The spl meter had already been ordered, I am waiting for it since almost 1 week...
I don't understand why then is it better regarded the DVE than the Avia... I decided to go for the DVE after searching opinions here... I think also that Avia is much more expensive than DVE, right?

[Messiah]

DVE has been designed specifically for digital display devices whereas AVIA was designed for analogue CRT sets.

Saying all that though, I find DVE an absolute nightnare to navigate so much so I could just not recommend it to anyone. How anyone could release a DVD with such appalling navigation is totally beyond me.