pc99
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Hi there, I just took delivery of my very own Skyworth 1050P and thought I'd post my initial comments.
Overall, I'm impressed. The quality of the DVD decoding is streets ahead of my old Pioneer 515. The pictures produced on My Toshiba MT1 projector are much crisper and with a lot less 'jaggies'.
The mechanism is pretty quiet in operation too. And there are cool blue lights on the front (which stay on even in standby mode).
Auto region and RCE compatibility work flawlessly.
However there are a couple of downsides.
The player plays MP3 files on CDR/RW however it's seems slightly fussy over certain brands of disc. Also it doesn't play variable bit rate properly (which is how all my files are encoded).
Also, I can't get a picture to display properly using progressive scan outputs for a PAL disc. My projector only seems to support 480P (NTSC progressive) and when a PAL disc is played the picture is shifted to the right and down and about 20% is chopped off the bottom (I assuming the missing bit is the 96 extra lines of 576P over 480P).
I'm not sure whether this is just my projector or the player that is the problem here, but currently I can only use progressive for NTSC discs. Most of my collection is NTSC so it's not the end of the world, and the picture even through S-Video is better than my Pioneer player.
I'm currently using the component progressive outputs. I tried using the VGA output. In this case I got a full picture from both PAL and NTSC discs but I get some flickering, pulsating bars of darker and lighter colours on the screen, making the picture unwatchable.
Anyway that's all I've managed to discover so far. I shall have a more extensive play at the weekend.
If anyone has any solutions to any of my PAL problems please get in touch.
Regards - PC99
Overall, I'm impressed. The quality of the DVD decoding is streets ahead of my old Pioneer 515. The pictures produced on My Toshiba MT1 projector are much crisper and with a lot less 'jaggies'.
The mechanism is pretty quiet in operation too. And there are cool blue lights on the front (which stay on even in standby mode).
Auto region and RCE compatibility work flawlessly.
However there are a couple of downsides.
The player plays MP3 files on CDR/RW however it's seems slightly fussy over certain brands of disc. Also it doesn't play variable bit rate properly (which is how all my files are encoded).
Also, I can't get a picture to display properly using progressive scan outputs for a PAL disc. My projector only seems to support 480P (NTSC progressive) and when a PAL disc is played the picture is shifted to the right and down and about 20% is chopped off the bottom (I assuming the missing bit is the 96 extra lines of 576P over 480P).
I'm not sure whether this is just my projector or the player that is the problem here, but currently I can only use progressive for NTSC discs. Most of my collection is NTSC so it's not the end of the world, and the picture even through S-Video is better than my Pioneer player.
I'm currently using the component progressive outputs. I tried using the VGA output. In this case I got a full picture from both PAL and NTSC discs but I get some flickering, pulsating bars of darker and lighter colours on the screen, making the picture unwatchable.
Anyway that's all I've managed to discover so far. I shall have a more extensive play at the weekend.
If anyone has any solutions to any of my PAL problems please get in touch.
Regards - PC99