Alba DVD103 Review

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Alba DVD103
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Sutmae.'s Review of Alba DVD103

13th Sep 2002

Overall Rating

4.5 stars
  • Value for money
    5 stars
Good Points

Cheap, DTS, Multiregion, Angle change.


Bad Points

Doesn`t handle scenes with a lot of black in very well.


General Comments

My girlfriend bought this Alba DVD103 DVD player for me for Christmas about 18 months ago (from Argos I think). With her knowing little about DVD and the difference in quality between players she just got the cheapest on out there for me.

I must say, I am very impressed with it. I`ve got it linked into a Videologic Digitheater DTS sound system and it sounds like the dogs knackers!! Never had any problems playing anything I have put in there, R1 and R3 disks work without a problem, VCD and SVCD of CDR and CDRW disks. It plays MP3 without problem. It`s packed with many features that more expensive players don`t have. It`s the ideal player for someone whos on a tight budget.

Of course there has to be a few corners cut to keep the price down. To start with it doesn`t actually come with it`s own 5.1 decoder built in so you will need to get your own and connect through a variety of methods either optical, composite or just standard phono jacks. Connection to TV is through standard SCART of S Video connctions. The player dosn`t handle well with scenes with high areas of black or dark colours, it generates a kind of pixelated appearance with a slight colour deviation. This is the only down point I have seen on this player. I`m sure that if the picture is compared to a top end Sony, JVC or Marantz player there will be noticeable differences but for the price of this little gem with everything that it does, it`s a quality little player. I`ll be sticking with mine for a few more years yet.

Beware.... there is a Daewoo model that looks exactly the same as the Alba... on the outside they are the same, on the inside they are very much different and I wouldn`t advise going for it, there is a major difference in quality and features.

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