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Which Component DVD Player Is Right For ME?
by soupcraze | Apr 08 '01
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by dkozin, dkozin is a Lead on Epinions in Electronics
"Sony: Sony is known for having high quality electronics. They really have great DVD players. You can find the DVPS360D for as little as $150. It's high quality components"

Players from Sony have "chroma" upsampling bug wich neither JVC no Panasonic players have. Sony S360 uses Sony MPEG decoder which has the bug.

Also, can you name "high quality components" they use?

Toshibas use Zoran MPEG encoders (Toshiba SD1600, 5109, 9200, etc) and also have chroma upsampling issues.

Also, VCD is not the same as DivX, not even close! VCD uses 352x240 resolution and MPEG1 compression, DivX has much higher resoltion and uses MPEG4. with VCD you can only fit up to 70 minutes on one CD, the DivX encoded files are much smaller.

"Audio encrypted into DVD, usually comes with Dolby Digital surround sound" - DVD-A and Dolby Digital are two different things.

Bottom Line

Please be responsible and stop misleading people!
Oct 30 '01
12:56 pm PST