Schneider DVD 857

Schneider DVD 857 plays just about any thing had it over a year never had to be repaired once. good DVD player with 5.1 sound although spare parts hard to find..

I think the Schneider DVD 857 DVD player is pretty good but i have had it a while now and it is starting to reject discs I have made.

DVD + RW it generally doesnt have a problem with and usually DVD- are ok.

Recently though It has started refusing to play DVD-disks I have burnt same project on a dvd+ RW and it worked ok first time tried it two days later it wouldnt play opened and closed the player it loaded fine.

What is with this player ?

I have tested the discs on other dvd players and no other dvd player I have tried them on has rejected them.

I would be interested in seeing if this is a common fault because as I said it worked well when it was new.

what can you say £49 for the Schneider DVD 857 which is a great DVD player well done asda this has got to be the best make player out there ,cant wait for a dvd recorder now come on asda.

This Schneider dvd 857 player seems to be able to handle all formats of payback, including Jpeg. Music playback is pretty good, brighter than the(admittedly quite old) CD player it replaces.

Lots of options to enhance playback of DVD's, and looks OK too. Remote multi region hack (well documented elsewhere) accepted no problem. Biggest gripe is the remote, which is not very intuitively laid out and cluttered. Otherwise, I am well chuffed.

Yet again I have to heap prase on Schneider for the 857.

Multi region using the 1,3,6,9 codes.

If you want a good value deck forget the rest buy this baby.

I purchased the Schneider DVD 857 from Asda and Couldn't believe that the price had been reduced to £37.99. It plays everything, once in the cabinet it looks expensive, came complete with all leads possible, and 3 year warrenty. I need some more discs to test fully, but first impressions are excellent.

I paid £250 for my last DVD player and when the broke down last week I decided to take a chance and get low price player. Only had this a week but so far I am really impressed. Its handled evrything I've thrown at it so far (Region 1 DVDs, VCDs, Audio CDs, and MP3s). The picture and sound quality is great for the price paid (£59 from Asda).

Been looking for a little while now for a replacement DVD for my Samsung 709. Looked at many around the £100 mark without any improvemnt on my old machine, infact many were worse. Saw this machine in Asda reduced to £58!!! took it home, plugged it in. It plays everything I want it to play very, very well, with a better picture and sound than I am used too. I've got the full 5.1 set up which runs very well. Don't just sit there go and get one...infact for the money get two.

Dont get me wrong its a great little machine for the price, it played bulkpaq dvd are fine but I couldn't get it to play any VCD XVCD SVCD or XSVCD flawlessly, it would always distort the movie about 40 mins through. I used 6 or 7 different brands of media and datasafe blue turned out the better result, its now back on the asda shelf and I am awaiting my Kiiro 838d.

Fantastic machine, if the S-Video output worked. Tried to get Asda to reduce the price as they are selling faulty machines - but they wouldn't. Didn't withdraw them from sale either. You can buy the Umax DVD2100 which has all same features but works (!) for £64.99 saving £25. In light of this I returned the Schneider and bought the Umax from Silicon Group. Have also seen the Umax for £75. It's a better buy for a fully workling machine, and cheaper! Sorry Schneider, but good effort....