Warm: Liteon DVD player lvd-2001 $127 - plays DVD, Mpeg4, Xvid

[straubs]

Originally posted by: gnawrotSorry but quality requires space and there is no workaround. As I said DIVX might look very good on 13 inch TV when watched 10 feet away.

So you listen to all your music in .wav format, huh?

Did you say this the first time you heard a 50mb wav was turned into a ~8mb mp3 (at 192k) and they claimed it sounds virtually identical?

 

[straubs]

Originally posted by: laugh
wish it could be networked to play video on the file server remotely. otherwise, it's a pain to burn so many CDRs... and most movies only need to be watched once. it's wasting CDR/DVDR. Well CDRW is too slow to burn.

24x rw's are too slow?

 

[straubs]

I don't have a standalone dvd player yet myself, and this just made my wish list. By the time I have money, there might be somethign better. Like those LAN players... That would be about perfect!

I just noticed I posted like 5 times in a row. Sorry about that. /me smacks self

 

[TomVeil]

If you already have a Xbox you are better off getting a mod chip and a 120 gig hardrive.

 

[FuZoR]

I would be all over this if i didnt have a xbox

 

[phenderson]

Originally posted by: straubs

Originally posted by: gnawrotSorry but quality requires space and there is no workaround. As I said DIVX might look very good on 13 inch TV when watched 10 feet away.

Who ever posted this post, does not know what they are talking about. Possibly they are getting ASF and DiVX encodes mixed up. Nine times out of ten when I view a DiVX file the, only thing that looks better than it would be an SVCD file, and that is on my 31 inch TV. Quite possibly, it could be due to the fact that I watch mostly anime in DiVX, but I have seen other movies (150-300 kbps encode bit rate) with almost picture perfect quality and no choppiness.

Of course the decoder is almost just as important as the encoding process. I use Windows Media Player 9 and DiVX Playa...to name a few. And the hardware is important as well. I use an Ati AIW 7500 to project to my screen. All of my Gundam Seed, Naruto, Wolf's Rain, Airmaster, Inu Yasha, whatever you can name, I watch them all on the big screen when I get a chance, and there is no pixelation.

The wife and I watched a 700 meg DiVX file for The Ring, and we also watched one for Ghost Ship, and some others a almost a year ago...
NO pixelation, excellent almost DVD quality video.

DIVX encoding has come a long way. I can remember when there was only ASF (remember how movies would be about 2 350 megs or 150 meg files, and have crappy pixelation....terrible) and how I first watched the Matrix in ASF ( the last scene where Neo jumps into Agent SMith looked like he just kicked him real good because the picture would break up pretty bad....

DiVX encodes are the best.
Right now my viewing system is a slight mess. I have 2 servers hooked up to my 10/100 backbone and one of the servers is a multimedia server with Athlon XP 2200 CPU, Asus A8Nx7 mb (however the letters may go, it is the non-deluxe MB), Adaptec 39160 u160 Controller, 18.3 gig u160 harddrive, and an 75 gig IBM ATA100 drive.

The system uses an AIW 7500 for both encoding and video out. THe OS is Windows Server 2003 which only supports the Video OUT (ie no video capture or TV Tuner) capabilities of the AIW 7500 To connect the Machine in my server room to my Bigscreen TV in my family room, I have one of those el cheapo RF radio Audio video signal kits, but because of my 802.11b wireless, the signal gets sort of messy at times...

But it works for me, even though I could easily get rid of multimedia server and just use the Ornitron unit with its wireless capabilities....

 

[lungster]

Did anyone who ordered one care to comment on the unit ?

 

[spanky]

the price is $149 for me... did the price go up, or do i need a coupon (or something)?

 

[Viper22]

Originally posted by: lungster
Did anyone who ordered one care to comment on the unit ?

Mine was delivered yesterday and i hooked it up. Basically it kicks ass...Sound and video are better than my 5 year old Pioneer DVD Player on everything i tested so far. Plays Divx files and stuff with no problems at all. Definatly worth the $140.

My setup i have running is:

36" Sony WEGA TV
Onkyo 898 Reciever
I have the DVD Player hooked up using Coax Digital for the sound and Component for the video.

 

[AznMaverick]

damn, sounds so sweet. as soon as this thing goes down to around $100, i'm in.

 

[Bee01]

Originally posted by: Davinci
t night. Sorry but quality requires space and there is no workaround. As I said DIVX might look very good on 13 inch TV when watched 10 feet away.

Divx, xvid, ogg, etc. all look pretty good on my HDTV when played through my Xbox. Sure, it's not DVD quality, but it's definately not bad.

Streaming videos and music from my PC to the Xbox = nice

 

[axskkyline]

i finally got mine

 

[axskkyline]

forgot to mention, play most divx after firmware update, however it was so hard to find. And the fast forward feature are terrible on divx... they don't work at all

 

[Quailbert]

I purchased one of these too. Plays everything well. Fast forward for divx can only be done by increments of about 1 minute. But you can use the search function to go to any exact time of the video you're watching.

The only thing that bothers me is the red light that always stays on when its off?!?!?!? It's kind of warm to the touch on standby mode.

I hooked this up to my sony TV and the picture is distorted at the top portion of the video. But when I hooked it up to my mitsubishi there was no distortion. I've haven't seen any similar cases, anyone have this problem? I might go exchange the unit to see if it'll solve the problem.

 

[Quailbert]

 

[Quailbert]

 

[Quailbert]

lol sorry i went a little crazy

 

[Rufio]

nice quadruple post!

 

[BKCalvine]

This is so evil ... such a temptation.

 

[iamme]

Originally posted by: spanky
the price is $149 for me... did the price go up, or do i need a coupon (or something)?

ugh, the price is $149 for me too

 

[straubs]

Originally posted by: Quailbert
I purchased one of these too.

Did you purchase just one, or FOUR?

 

[drti]

most of the people was right, xbox probably a much better deal. if you don't have a game console yet, then xbox is a better choice. eventhough ps2 has more games than xbox now, but xbox hardware is far more superior than ps2.

anyway, you can go to sam's or costco, buy the xbox, mod, if something wrong, they take it back no problem.

for non-technical people who's doesn't want to mess w/ moding and stuff, then this dvd player is a way to go. plus, lot of people complained about xbox cdr compability problem.

 

[jsfiat]

I just got mine, i too am a little annoyd by the big stand-by light. but the wife loves the slide show for the mmc cards nd compact flash cards. the two adapters are worth prob 25.00 I had to hit the p-scan to get the picture right. But this is def worth the money. I just bought the optiright dvd burner, so everything should play fine. I highly rec this as i stuckin my 128 comp flash with mp3 songs and it played, this was great..

 

[Apex]

http://www.allthingstech.com/comp/979503.html

Currently out of stock, but $128.15 plus $7.99 for ground shipping.

 

[foofoo]

mine came and i've had to return it already. the s-video output quality is terrible. must be a broken unit ( i hope, anyone else out there using the s-video out?, if so, is it ok?)
maybe this means that it's time to get a tv with component video input but i cant quite swing that yet.
anyone else get a bad unit?