alba dvd114 review

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Average Ratings

Image Quality	9/10
Sound Quality	8.5/10
Features	6.5/10
Ease of Use	10/10
Value for Money	9.5/10
Overall rating	8.9/10

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By pezz on 23rd Aug 2004

pezz's Ratings

Time DVD Player Owned	Over 1 Year
Image Quality	10/10
Sound Quality	9/10
Features	6/10
Ease of Use	10/10
Value for money	10/10
Overall value	9/10
pezz's recommendation

Good Points

Multi Region out the Box
Never ever skips even on scratched disks
full RGB 21 pin SCART output
Cheap as Chips

Bad Points

I sometimes have to change to a different channel and then quickly back again on my TOSHIBA 5.1 TV to get the 5.1 DD to kick in. This is not the case with other DD DVD players I have used. If I don't I sometimes get no sound or very loud digital white noise. This only happens once at the very start of a movie though.

General Comments

I bought my Alba DVD114 DVD Player for £25! Last year and it is the best player I have ever used. at the time I had been using 2 much posher and more expensive players at my home but after 3 months of use they both started to skip on perfectly good disks even new ones out the box after about an hour of play! So I thought I would unpack the Alba and give it a go. What I found was an easy to set up region free (out the box) fully loaded RGB DVD Player with a coaxial digital output just waiting to be plugged in next to my SKY+ optical input of the back of my TV. I found that the coaxial digital overrided the optical input so I do have to push the phono in when I want to watch a DVD and not sky in DD (Dolby Digital) but as with the white noise problem this is a TV compatibility issue and nothing to do with the DVD player. I have never had any trouble playing anything on it... dvdr dvdrw +/- cdr cdrw vcd mp3 on cd/dvd but to be honest 99% of the time I am using commercial DVDs and CDs so there could be problems I don't know about. I work in a video rental shop and a lot of the time I have to take disks that have been returned 'faulty' home to test before we write them off and in the last year my Alba player has not skipped even once on these disks. If you have a dd and dts decoder or just want a player that does what is says on the tin then go for this one you will not beat it for under £200.

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