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| Value for Money | 7/10  |
|---|---|
| Overall rating | 6.2/10 |
By flashman
on 19th Feb 2004
| Image Quality | 8/10 |
|---|---|
| Value for money | 10/10 |
| Overall value | 10/10 |
 flashman's recommendation | |
Cheap
Plays anything you throw at it
Plays unauthored MPEGs
No RGB output
Some controls feel badly thought-out
I bought this Yamada DVD 5520 dvd player a few months ago to replace my Wharfdale 750 that was having trouble playing some home-burned movies and didn't do mp3. It was £40 from Amazon, easy to set up and hasn't given me any trouble to speak of. Some of the controls seem a bit odd - pressing 'Stop' on the remote is like a blank-screen pause, for example, but it's perfectly usable.
It plays mp3s, DVD+r, DVD-r, cd-rw, dvd-rw etc, as well as unauthored mpegs - this means you don't have to bother burning an SVCD every time you want to watch some video from your PC, you can just put the mpeg onto a disk. One problem I've found however is that it doesn't seem to like very long filenames for mp3s Again, a minor niggle.
Picture quality is good enough, but the lack of RGB output (Composite only) means that it won't satisfy people who want high-end kit. But people who buy high-end kit won't be buying a £40 DVD player :-)
| Helpful | Unhelpful | Agree | Disagree |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Total Respect: +5
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phryo
on 1st May 2004