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6/05
Posted - Jul 16 2005 : 7:59PM
I'll soon be on the market for a new DVD player. What's a good one in a single disc player and a carousel player?
jamesn
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Cambridge, MA
750 Posts
1/04
Posted - Jul 16 2005 : 8:52PM
phillips dvp-642 for $50. it'll play back regular dvds and you can throw a bunch of .mpeg/.mpg/.avi files you've encoded or downloaded(hopefully-legally) onto a dvd and it'll play them back.
rolemco
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220 Posts
7/05
Posted - Jul 22 2005 : 10:32PM
everything you'd want to know here-http://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers
Bill All-Star Supporter
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5334 Posts
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Posted - Jul 22 2005 : 10:41PM
While I won't be using it as my primary DVD player, when my Sampo NTSC/PAL, multi-region player died on me last week, I picked up this Yamakawa DVD-275 that has the same features for $24 (after $15 rebate) plus shipping.


If you want to be able to play DVD's from Europe, you can't go wrong with one of these.

If you're talking about a mega-changer, your only choices are currently Pioneer and Sony. They both have their pluses and minuses. The Sony has more features and holds 400 discs. But it can't be daisy chained to another changer. The Pioneer has fewer features and holds 300 discs. But you can daisy-chain two together for a total of 600 discs.

If you can find one, Kenwood used to have 2 mega changers that held 400 discs and 3 of them could be daisy chained.

I own both the Pioneer and Kenwoods. Although the Kenwood's are better players quality wise, I prefer the Pioneer. The Menus/disc navigation and speed are all much better on the Pioneer. I haven't seen the Sony in action, so I can't comment on its performance.

Edited by - Bill on 7/22/2005 10:48:47 PM

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