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Limit 8072
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Germo.'s Review of Limit 8072

10th Aug 2002

Overall Rating

3.5 stars
  • Value for money
    3.5 stars
Good Points

Simple uncluttered front,
Good picture quality,
Plays all discs


Bad Points

A/V out of synch on VCD's


General Comments

I wanted a Cyberhome ADL528 but Richer Sounds were out of stock, They recommended I go for the Limit 80702 at the same price, saying that it is usually much more expensive and a better machine all round.
The multi-region hack will not work, and when playing VCD's the sound is out of synch with the picture. (Like watching a badly dubbed foreign film). DVD's are great, although the first one I tried would not play, this later cleared itself and it later played OK.
Anyone else had the "out of synch" problem?

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Members' Comments onGermo.'s Review

  • andy. on 20th Aug 2002

    Yeah, I had the vcd 'out of sync' problem too. Can anyone out there help?

  • Germo. on 20th Aug 2002

    I took the Limit 8072 back to Richer's, and got a 'Acoustic Solutions 451'.
    Much smaller, just as good picture and sound quality, and the same VCD's play with A/V in synch!! A cracking good player for the money.

  • Paul. on 1st Oct 2002

    I've just bought one of these and mine wasn't set to multi region either. Go to http://www.regionfreedvd.net/player/limit.html and follow their instructions. The multiregion will then work ;-)

  • CanDoMan. on 10th Oct 2002

    I would just say that I have used the limit 8072 for over a year having also bought it from Richer Sounds, and it rules. The multi-region hack works, the system plays any & every kind of disc you throw at it and the picture/ sound quality is superb!
    My only gripe is that on NTSC (US) discs the quality of the picture can at times distort at very high bit levels and pixel res.

    But that is a minor gripe and I have no idea, why the other reviewers had problems? Maybe you were all out of your depth!! ;)

  • mickey. on 18th Feb 2003

    I'm looking to buy Limit 8070 from Richer sounds @ £80. Mostly all the comments seem positive and I will most probably be buying this sometime next week when my 'local' RS has some in stock. Ok more to the point has anyone tried the JPEG facility on this player? I think this is a cool feature and seems very useful for my purpose. Any comments would be most welcome.

    cheers!

  • sychnant. on 20th Feb 2003

    I have just bought this model from richer sounds as they didn't have the cyberhome in stock..I have tried it with Dvd region 1/region 2 and DVD-R, VCD and SVCD.. all played OK.. I noticed an out of sync sound on one DVD-R movie but reststarting sorted it. The Jpeg function is even able to find Jpegs among other data files and list all the folders..appears to show pics in VCD mode.. not exceptional quality.. but it's for free and you can even see the pics as thumbnails too.. all in all not a bad buy for the money.

  • Neil. on 16th Apr 2003

    I also get the VCD synch problem. It's annoying :-( I used to watch+make loads of video CD's. No more :-(

  • trev. on 26th Apr 2003

    A mate of mine suggested that a firmware upgrade might fix the VCD sound sync problem - anyone got any comments?

  • Neil. on 27th Apr 2003

    Quite probably - but where to get the firmware upgrade from?