Cons: Noisy transport, navigation screen filenames, occasional AVI sound drift
The Bottom Line: This player is so cheap and capable, buy two in case the first breaks. Give one to your parents. Perfect for playing through a regular TV.
I liked my first one so much that I bought a second.
This is a great player for non-home theatre applications. Sound and video quality is acceptable, but not nearly good enough to compete with, say, a good CD player. For the price, though, it is outstanding.
It plays AVI files, both the proprietary DivX codec and the open XVid, as well as others. Occasional sound-drift with some AVI files, but overall works very well.
The well-documented hack (try a Google search) to make this player region-free worked perfectly on both of my players, allowing us to play DVDs not normally available in North America.
Highly recommended as a secondary player for a bedroom, for kids, perhaps for immigrants who have DVDs they cannot play here, or who want to buy DVDs from overseas. Not recommended as a player for a home-theatre system due to merely adequate sound quality.
It also plays all rewritable DVD formats, so it's a great player to use for testing DVDs you have burned yourself (such as photo slideshows) prior to sending them to friends or relatives. Also, since it will play both PAL and NTSC, you can test your project in the final form if you are sending out of North America.
The navigation display when playing AVI, MP3 or JPEG files cuts filenames off at 8 characters so don't waste your time making longer names.
Disc transport can be a little noisy at times, but not irritatingly so.
Plays DVD-Video, video CD, audio CD, JPEG image CD, and CDs loaded with MP3, MPEG-4, or DivX 3.11/4.x/5.x files Progressive-scan output for seamless, ...More at Amazon Marketplace
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