Yamada DVX-6100 DivX Review

Overall Rating

Well made (apart from Scart sockect on back)
Good picture quality
Plays all DivX movies
Excellent remote
Scart cable included

Too be honest I've not really found any yet!
Ok, there's 1, the zoom is rubbish on DivX movies

I've had two Pacific 1002W's which I took back due to continuing judder problems that other people also seem to be getting..

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And so I decided to spend a little extra and get this Yamada DVX-6100 DivX and try out all my DivX movies I have. So far I'm very impressed. The layer change pause either never happens or is very very quick, it's only skipped a frame in a movie once, the remote is great, it appears well built apart from the scart socket on the back which has been put in at an angle and seems a tad loose. It has 5.1 analogue out, as well as stereo analogue out, coxial and optical digital out and composite and S-Video out with RGB (component) out via the Scart socket.

The menu isn't the best but seems to be a pretty standard one used on most no name brand DVD players at the moment.

So far I've tried about 8 DivX movies, all downloaded from the net and all at varying compression and resolution and it's played them all. I thought the quality might be better than my PC as it has a dedicated MPEG4 chip but it isn't, it's about on par. Watching from a distnace though it's fine and one of the movies could easily be mistaken for a DVD. On one DivX movie the sound goes way out of sync with the picture (but plays fine on my PC) so I guess you can't have everything.

I've not checked the firmware version yet but as standard out the box it plays all DivX movies full screen. The only problem is the zoom in DivX mode. There's only 1 zoom setting as opposed to 4 whilst playing a DVD, and it's too much. It makes a 2.35:1 encoded movie fit a 4:3 screen and as such it is far too blocky, there really needs to be an in-between zoom like it has whilst playing a DVD.

Apart from that it's great, I've just watched The Lord of the Rings DVD's on a projector pointing at a 6ft wide screen and the quality was fantastic, on a TV it looks even better.

I've tried the following DVD players

Pacific 1002W
Dual (from Asda)
Samsung DVD-235

and this is easily the best DVD player I've tried so far. For the price, this is Definitely recomended!