written by Alienturnedhuman. on 14/12/2002
I bought this player for 3 reasons. 1. To play a couple of DVDs that were incompatible with my 18 month Toshiba. 2. To be able to play Region 1 DVDs. 3. To be able to play DVD-Rs. Now, on everything bar points 1, and the speed of reading standard manufactured discs I would consider my old Toshiba to be a far superior model. It was much better constructed, had an optical digital out for connecting to my speakers and was much simpler to set up and use. The machine specified it would play DVD-Rs, and as I had a Pioneer DVD-RW drive in my computer I assumed a Pioneer player would have the best compatibility with the discs that I burned. The discs that I burned rarely loaded and when the machine eventually loaded one it would not read the data at the edge of the disc very well. I have since tried the exact same disc in my friend's Toshiba SD110 and the discs play back with no problems at all. And that machine does not state DVD-R compatibility. Now this would not be an issue except on both Amazon (where I bought the machine) and on the Pioneer website the product specifications stated clearly it had DVD-R compatibility. My only other criticism is the poor quality remote control. Whilst laid out well with easily recognisable buttons it looks and feels cheap. Despite these issues the machine is otherwise a good machine and is generally good value for money. I am just a little bit annoyed to have to send it back to Amazon and get a player which can play the DVD-Rs as I have already sold my old Toshiba.
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Oddjob.'s Response to Alienturnedhuman.'s Review
Written on: 02/01/2003
Hi,
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<br>I've just ordered the same player from Amazon. One of the main reasons for buying this model is the DVD-R capability, and your review has got me a little worried...
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<br>Did you use Nero to burn the DVD-R? I've read that there's a bug in Nero regarding DVD-R.
82711_Appleworks.'s Response to Alienturnedhuman.'s Review
Written on: 24/03/2003
This works 100% with DVD-R made with Apple iDVD.
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<br>Its a great player and I got it for less that £100.
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<br>nice.
Urbez.'s Response to Alienturnedhuman.'s Review
Written on: 21/03/2003
I've just bought one Pioneer 350 and it works great. Picture is superb and the sound is awesome. I decided to retire my old but very good Denon CD. Besides that, I try the Pioneer with some burned DVD-R, and it worked without problems. I've made some DVD copies of DVD movies for my internal use with the DVD Decrypter - DVD2One - Copy2DVD and I didn't have any problem with them.
63909_Alienturnedhuman.'s Response to Alienturnedhuman.'s Review
Written on: 09/01/2003
I only used Nero to burn one of the DVDs that I tried to play. All the others were written using Ulead DVD Workshop.
These discs played fine (they even loaded as quickly as normal DVDs) on a friend's 6 month old Toshiba which did not state DVD-R capatability.
I might have just been unlucky and got a faulty player, but as there were other concerns with the player (such as a lack of an optical out) I decided I wouldn't waste the time risking a replacement player and switch to another model.