G a f f e r
Prominent Member
Hi.
I think my Jamo DVR50 has finally died (1 month after it's 2 year warranty ran out ).
It doesn't respond to any inputs and doesn't play anything or output any signals.
Anyway, I have to start again, and wanted to go the seperates route.
I have a Panny AE500 with DVi input and native 720p resolution (also allows 1080i).
I was looking for a player that:
It will be partnered with an AV amp (eg Yamaha one) and I can buy the spkrs 2nd hand/seperately
These are my shortlist:
Samsung DVD-HD850 - £100
Samsung DVD-HD860 - £90 play.com
Samsung DVD-HD960 - £120 play.com....worth the extra? I've heard the latest firmwares on these cannot be multiregioned?
Tosh SD-350E £90 - cheap, plasticky feel so not a favourite
philips DVP5900 £70ish - ditto...what is it with cheap nasty plastics nowadays?
LG DVX9900H £100 - looks a good bet but no 720p? (don't wanna upscale to 1080i only to have another conversion to native 720p by the projector...rather just have an initial conversion to 720p that the proj can "leave alone").
Anyways, any experience with these? The advantage of my dvr50 is the DiVx playback and the RCE 1 playback (I have some which won't nomally run on other "multiregion" players, but the Jamo handled them flawlessly).
Any I should also shortlist and which do you recommend?
Cheers
Gaffer
I think my Jamo DVR50 has finally died (1 month after it's 2 year warranty ran out ).
It doesn't respond to any inputs and doesn't play anything or output any signals.
Anyway, I have to start again, and wanted to go the seperates route.
I have a Panny AE500 with DVi input and native 720p resolution (also allows 1080i).
I was looking for a player that:
- Has DiVX playability
- Upscales to preferrably 720p (1080i OK too)
- Costs around the £100 mark
- Has HDMI or DVI output
- Can be easily modded via bootdisk/handset hack (NOT needing a chip mod) to play any region and also RCE discs
It will be partnered with an AV amp (eg Yamaha one) and I can buy the spkrs 2nd hand/seperately
These are my shortlist:
Samsung DVD-HD850 - £100
Samsung DVD-HD860 - £90 play.com
Samsung DVD-HD960 - £120 play.com....worth the extra? I've heard the latest firmwares on these cannot be multiregioned?
Tosh SD-350E £90 - cheap, plasticky feel so not a favourite
philips DVP5900 £70ish - ditto...what is it with cheap nasty plastics nowadays?
LG DVX9900H £100 - looks a good bet but no 720p? (don't wanna upscale to 1080i only to have another conversion to native 720p by the projector...rather just have an initial conversion to 720p that the proj can "leave alone").
Anyways, any experience with these? The advantage of my dvr50 is the DiVx playback and the RCE 1 playback (I have some which won't nomally run on other "multiregion" players, but the Jamo handled them flawlessly).
Any I should also shortlist and which do you recommend?
Cheers
Gaffer