DVD Player needed.

chabsey

I have an old Wharfdale 750 which doesn't play anything I want it to play so I'm looking into getting a new DVD player.

I've checked www.dvdrhelp.com for different players and there are some really good ones but I'm not sure if they're available in Ireland so I thought I'd ask here.

I'm looking for something that plays with good quality obviously but will also play:

DVD -r/rw
DVD +r/rw
MP3

The most important things is that it should be quite cheap (there's lots of cheap drives that seem to be quite good) and it must play most anything I throw at it. SVCDs etc aren't very important to me, it's mainly the DVD media that is of concern.

Cheers.

huh!

Powercity have a Scott 839 player for 59 euros that meet all your needs and has built in 5.1 decoder output, bargain , it's listed on the dvdrhelp site aswell,

chabsey

Originally posted by huh!
Powercity have a Scott 839 player for 59 euros that meet all your needs and has built in 5.1 decoder output, bargain , it's listed on the dvdrhelp site aswell,

Thanks. I'd actually seen that offer already but couldn't find it on DVDRhelp. I'll check again now.

EDIT: Found it (dvdrhelp keeps killing it's search pages half way through ). Seems like a good machine but some of the comments say it has problems with DVD-R...which will be my main source of disc, with possibly DVD+R too.

Any other suggestions anyone?

Samson

Originally posted by chabsey
Seems like a good machine but some of the comments say it has problems with DVD-R...which will be my main source of disc, with possibly DVD+R too.

One of the lads in work bought the Scott player recently from Powercity, and I gave him a loan of a few of my DVD-R "backup" films (didn't want to release my precious originals).
They played no problem.

Can't comment on DVD+R though.

rabbitinlights

Panasonic S35

This bad boy is down to E149, In places like argos etc.
Plays any disc i ever put near it. great looking and great On screen menu's

Great reviews from all the websites and mags.

Worth every penny.

Sean

sikes

plays dvd-r/-rw not sure about +r/rw cos i only use -

boogie man

Originally posted by rabbitinlights
Panasonic S35

This bad boy is down to E149, In places like argos etc.
Plays any disc i ever put near it. great looking and great On screen menu's

Great reviews from all the websites and mags.

Worth every penny.

Sean

Is this multi-region? Can't seem to find a difinitive answer!

BM.

rabbitinlights

Is this multi-region? Can't seem to find a difinitive answer!

As far as i can see its not possible to crack it with the standard remote or code, but certain shops can do it for you.

Such a sweet player though!

Sean

boogie man

Thanks

byte

Yeah it's a great drive and well priced. It doesn't support +R/RW though does support DVD-RAM.

chabsey

Originally posted by sikes
plays dvd-r/-rw not sure about +r/rw cos i only use -

Sorry, which of the two are you talking about? Not being rude, just confused

slave1

I go the scott 839 and it does not play verbatim dvd+rs, "backed-up" with dvdXcopy on a NEC 1300
I have not checked out dvd+rw or dvd-r, dvd-rw yet, but my preferred media is dvd+r as my other units are capable of playing them

boogie man

Originally posted by rabbitinlights
As far as i can see its not possible to crack it with the standard remote or code, but certain shops can do it for you.

What shops in dublin do this? I presume Peats would - any others, and how much would this cost?

Thanks,
BM.

Samson

Originally posted by boogie man
What shops in dublin do this? I presume Peats would - any others, and how much would this cost?

Don't know about shops, but www.dvdireland.com will do it.
However, their price at €75.00 is not cheap.
The S35 is apparently an awkward bastard to make region free (unless you have the Panasonic engineer terminal/remote thingy).

chabsey

Just for information...I went to Power City and saw the Scott 839. Looked too much like the old Wharfdale in terms of size and design (big, bulky) so I took a chance on a player made by DMtech. Yes, the famous DMtech, leaders in DVD technology.

Well it plays DVD-r perfectly, all my MP3s and as a bonus also plays CDs with Jpegs burned onto it via a variety of different slide shows!

All this for 69 euros! So I'm happy enough so far. Will test DVD+r today.

bucks73

Amazon have the Toshiba SD330 for GBP80.00 here .

This player won a Best Buy award from What HiFi this year and the total I paid after delivery and currency exchange was EUR150.00.