On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 18:23:13 GMT, John Navas
<spamfilter0@navasgroup.com> wrote:
In theory that is a great idea, but my attempts didn't turn out so
well in the real world.
I have 2 DVD players now. Both play DVD, VCD and SVCD although they
don't claim to support all those. Both also have some glitches --
certain things pretty bad on both -- and I wanted to get a new
player for my main TV that can play everthing I may want to try.
On the web I checked what Best Buy and Circuit City are offering
now. I looked through the dvdrhelp lists and several possible
choices weren't covered yet. I settled on a couple possibilities.
(BTW, if you read the reviews for a given model, there is usually
quite a bit of conflict about what works or doesn't on the same
model.)
I burned sample VCD and SVCD from the sample images you can download
from dvdrhelp. I burned a short DVD onto -R and -RW and took along a
comercial DVD that gives problems on one of my current players.
I went to Best Buy and Circuit City locally and neither were set up
so you could try the DVD players. They gave me a guarantee that I
could bring it back if I wasn't satisfied, but that's a painful way
to test.
Fortunately I found a different Best Buy store where a friendly
salesman let me move and try a couple players. First I tried a JVC
XV-N5SL which sounded good from the reviews. It was good in most
cases, but had a glitch on playing one SVCD file - I saw the same
thing on one of my home players. I asked if the salesman had any
suggestions and we tried a Sony. This played the SVCD, but had other
issues. Its method for navigating menus was particularly awkward.
I gave up at this point and bought nothing. Anyone here have
suggestions?
So nothing that I have tried yet seems to be the one. No player that
I have tried has handled subtitles on the SVCD samples correctly
(although that's not a big issue).
I'm in the US so only tried NTSC samples.
Its not easy to find that super DVD player.
-xray
