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RE: £40 Blu-ray player

I have not updated the Firmware. I know this is going to sound dumb but how can I carry out the Firmware. Cheers for any tips. ;)

The Blu-ray title I played, and which jerked despite having a solid image, was the following ballet:

SPARTACUS

Do you think it might be an NTSC / PAL issue?

RE: £40 Blu-ray player

First up, thanks for taking the time to reply and send tips.

The Blu-ray is currently set to PAL (my TV can also playback NTSC).

Also, the FILM MODE option is currently set to "OFF" and despite trying to "ON" it fails to change the option. I can change other things such as AUDIO, DISPLAY, PASSWORD, etc but the FILM MODE will NOT change at all despite fiddling about with the remote.

Can you change this FILM MODE option on your player? Or is yours also firmly set to "OFF"?

RE: £40 Blu-ray player

I was charged £39.97 at the checkout despite the £49.97 price-tag. Upon closer inspection at home I noticed that the power-plug was broken (one of the plug`s three "teeth" had been torn off).

I replaced the plug and turned on the player. However, I don`t get any video if I playback any higher than the 480p resolution. I`ve connected the Blu-ray to a Toshiba rear-projection TV via component YPbPr wires. DVDs play without a problem but any Blu-rays I play have a little jerkiness to the image.

Is there a way of fine tuning the player`s settings to get a clean image?

RE: £40 Blu-ray player

Tried 3 seperate CURRYS stores but they only had display models (none for sale). I finally found an ex-display one at the last branch with no box or remote and the price was £49.97. I was told I could phone and buy a remote for about £10 on top. The staff were not helpful at all. I finally found the box and the control in one part of the store and paid and brought home the scratched player. Lets hope it works...

RE: Sony BDPS350 BluRay Player £149.99 @ Richer Sounds plus more bargains

Actually, if you do a price check, you`ll find that Sony Blu-ray Player is priced around the £150 mark on a number of online retail sites.

So, you don`t need to buy an ex-display version from Richer Sounds. Grab a brand new one!

RE: Before you dump your old VCR watch this video to reclaim the treasures within.....

That`s a really cute and funny spoof video-clip BUT I`m not sure it belongs here on the Bargains Thread.

Funny YouTube clips should be placed elsewhere.

RE: Bush dvd2055hdmib hdmi connection not working

I was thinking of getting this player BUT before I do can anyone confirm if this machine can playback Divx, Mpeg & Mp3 files?

RE: Carry on Collection £1 per movie

Members should do a quick search before posting dupilcate threads. Maybe the moderator can merge this thread with the existing thread which was started by Mikeonfreeserve?

Below is the link for the original thread:

http://www.dvd.reviewer.co.uk/forums/thread.asp?Forum=223&Thread=718480&Type=1

Superman 4-DVD Box Set £2.97

Superman: The Movie (4 Disc Special Edition) - £2.97

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Superman-Movie-4-Disc-Special/dp/B000I8OC5I/ref=sr_1_1/026-0996067-2023664?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1182770073&sr=1-1&tag=myrev09-21

This item was edited on Monday, 25th June 2007, 12:17

RE: 7-Inch Portable DivX DVD Player with USB and SD £40?

You`ve been misinformed ,mate. I just checked with the store and they had a a few of the units in-stock all priced at £99.99p each. None at £40.

Oh well. It sounded too-good-to-be-true.

RE: Goodmans 40Gb Personal Media Centre - £59 from Goodmans Direct

Folks, be warned!

The battery life is very limited! Also, after about two years the battery will die and no longer be usable! You cannot replace it either!

And don`t forget, if you play video files then you`ll spend a lifetime in converting them before they play on this media player!

The video quality is often pixelated and jumpy with sound drop-outs!

Opening Mp3 / Video folders for playback can take many minutes before they can be accessed! Thus, a folder containing around 50 songs could take you a while before you an view the details!

And, as stated before, many of these machines have had to be sent back due to internal mechanics "locking-up".

Beware folks! There`s a good reason why this little gizmo is being sold for peanuts!

RE: Sony 55" RP TV only £999 with FREE 5YR G`TEE (was £1499)

Sold Out now! :(

Damn oh damn! >:(

RE: POSSIBLE - Freecom 160gb External HDD for £39.99

This is probably the best ever time to pick up External Drives for backing up personal data. There`s some amazing offers to be had for machines that hold upto 400-500gb for under a 100 quid. Even the High St chains have woken up and begun to reduce their prices.

About bloddy time too!

RE: The Assassination of Richard Nixon £2 instore

After reading the alert I rushed over to my local branch and had a look. Bad news! This £2 edition is a barebones disc. ALL the special features are gone. That`s why it`s dirt cheap.

RE: 2 Free BabySham Glasses

Yeah, it`s a prize-draw. Not too keen on giving them my personal details (which they`ll probably sell on to a third party and I`ll end up getting even more junk mail). Thanks, but no thanks.

Now, that Strongbow glass (which a fellow member alerted us here) was cool. That was a nice freebie with no strings attached.

RE: DVD Recorder - High Speed Dubbing

Someone experienced the following problem:

Also I`m wary of filling disks. I filled disks with my DVD recorder and when they failed I checked them on my Mac or PC it was always the last VOB file that failed. Now that may be a peculiarity of the recorder but DVDs are written from the centre outwards and the outside edge is most prone to damage. As we know DVDs are delicate and tempremental beasts so it seems a sensible precaution.

The following seems to be a solution:

I was given a wicked tip when thinking of filling a DVD. Create a blank five minute clip, and always add that as the last file on the DVD to be burned. Hence, if the last VOB file becomes corrupted, it`s not the important material that`s ruined. Up to now, it`s worked a treat.

I`m thinking of using the FR option my Panasonic machine so I can dub an item onto a full 4.7gb DVD-R (this option uses automatically SP / LP modes to fill the disc). Will this mean that the earliers parts of the programme will be in good quality whilst the sections near the end will show signs of compression, artefacts and a general degrading like LP mode?

RE: DVD Recorder - High Speed Dubbing

Actually, the Panasonic model I`m using has High-Speed option on the menu. This option is for making recordings onto the Hard-Drive. If this option is set to "OFF" then the recording can ONLY be burnt onto a blank disc in real time. To burn in High-Speed the Panasonic needs the original recording on the Hard-Drive to have been saved with the High-Speed option set to "ON".

My setting for recording quality is currently set to XP (the highest).

Having a High-Speed dub option "ON" would save time but what about visual quailty?

DVD Recorder - High Speed Dubbing

When recording, using a DVD Recorder with an internal Hard-Drive, is it advisable to use High Speed dubbing? :/

I`m after the best image quality.

The problem is if the recording is made to the Hard-Drive of the recorder it cannot be recorded onto a DVD-R in a High-Speed dub to save time. It has to recorded in real time. And that can be very time consuming! You can only use High-Speed dubbing if the original recording was also recorded in High-Speed!

Does High-Speed reduce image quality? :/

Cheers for any info / hints / help. ;)

RE: Free Monkey soft toy with 160 PG tips teabags....

Cheers for the heads up!

There were still a few left when I went in yesterday.

THANKS!!!

RE: Superdrug DVD Player for £9.99

Does it playback DIVX and MPEG files?

I know, I know, this is like looking a gift horse in the mouth... :D

RE: Terror raids in Birmingham.

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Are you a muslim?

I find the above question rather disturbing and don`t much care for the undertone, and it sadly proves my point about the feelings on this thread. My faith, race, colour, nationality, age or sex should not have to be confirmed before you hear my words. First and foremost I belong to the human race. That`s all the qualification needed. To ask for any further credentials before you listen to me harkens back to what the Nazis did.

Are you a Muslim? Are You a Jew? Are you Black? Are you a Girl? How old are you?

I won`t be adding any further contribution to this thread after this scary insult.

No wonder our nation is in such turmoil.

RE: Terror raids in Birmingham.

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That make you the biggot.

Guilty as charged, guv! :D

First I`m a radical now I`m a bigot. :D

Guess I`d rather be a bigot for peace than a mouthpiece for all things foul and nasty. ;)

Seriously though, this tit-for-tat thing won`t bring anyone together. As long as we, as a nation, just TALK and never LISTEN to the other side we`ll just have endless hot air which ultimately results in the deaths of innocent folks. No one says the peace word anymore. It`s become a taboo topic.

Wasn`t it Chirac who said you can`t fight terror with terror? You just breed more resentment and evil-mongers such as Bin Laden then have the ammunition to inspire and brainwash more young minds.

And lest we forget, much of the stuff being touted in the news ends up as opinion than hard news. Off course there are real acts of terror and evil and these need to be cracked down upon by the law enforcement agencies. However, some of these dawn raids with media cameras are a PR stunt which end up tarnishing a whole community. The reporters spew out verbal diarrhoea and this then contaminates the already paranoid public consciousness. People end up being polarised (as clearly demonstrated by some of the comments on this thread).

There`s an old saying - "The first causality of War is Truth". How true!

Sigh, this is getting rather tiresome and I sound like an old fuddy-duudy. I`ll leave the debate for your chaps to carry on as you see fit. I don`t think anyone here much cares to hear what I have to say. My pleas for peace are being drowned out by the howls of the laddish-lads.

Enjoy! ;)

RE: Terror raids in Birmingham.

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Lets play a game.

Yeah, let`s reduce what remains of this discussion into a juvenile game.

Go ahead mate, knock yourself out. The playground`s all yours.

The world burns and we`re playing games whilst the real issues are either ignored, buried deep or worse, killed with wars.

RE: Terror raids in Birmingham.

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seven reminds me of a radical.

Oh, so anyone who advocates peace and tolerance is a radical? That`s a strange interpretation of "radical". :/

However, it has to said in your defence, that the way things are going anyone who leans towards peace is quickly hailed an unpatriotic traitor or a soft Leftie liberal.

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In the interests of equality it is only fair that the muslims take their turn.

That`s a contradiction, mate. How can you talk about equality when what you`re actually advocating is other races taking the rough end of the stick? We don`t need silly stereotypes in drama or film. As long as you have a good writer, a decent actor and a director who knows his craft, you can easily create genuinely interesting and disturbing characters without causing unnecessary insult to other races / religions. Just see how convincing Hannibal Lecter or the T-1000 from Terminator: Judgement Day are drawn. That`s far more effective than having someone dress up in a turban and wave around a Kalashnikov whilst spouting on about some ridiculous cartoony Jihad.

Enough of my lecture, you guys know the score.

RE: Terror raids in Birmingham.

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Give that man/woman a Nobel Peace prize...

Oh yes, please! :D

And then I`ll flog it over on E-Bay! :D

RE: Terror raids in Birmingham.

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If someone doesnt make a film of that, im handing back my Blockbuster card.

Keep your card, mate. Just go watch any episode of 24, Spooks, Judge John Deed, etc, etc. Almost every new film or drama has a Muslim baddie. Reminds me of the 1880`s when every screen crook had a funny Russian accent. :D

These cartoon villains just add fuel to the raging fires of hate and negative propaganda.

RE: Terror raids in Birmingham.

Sigh, the response to my earlier post proves my point about the hot anger being vented on this thread. I guess the terrorists and the bigots in this country are made for each. I pity the innocent people who get caught in their cross-fire.

I`ll leave this arena so you can continue your bile and futile anger. Those who forget the lessons of history are doomed to repeat the mistakes.

The hope for decency, peace and common sense seem to be rather bleak.

Peace and love to all forum members. ;)

RE: Terror raids in Birmingham.

It`s very depressing and heartbreaking to read some of the angry and xenophobic comments on this thread. And then you wonder why some Muslims have become so radicalized. It takes two to tango. These people don`t suddenly wake up one morning to commit random acts of terror. Unless we address the genuine reasons why this occurs we`ll have no end to this madness.

These periodical police raids are usually timed when there`s a quiet week in the news or when the politicians need to once again justify the unpopular war in Iraq. The real reasons for the violence are never aired. This "Us" versus "Them" mentality is downright dangerous. The cowboy attitude has resulted in the deaths of countless innocent people both here in the UK and abroad in countries like the USA and Iraq.

The media frenzy that these dawn raids attracts is also nauseating. The cameras linger for hours on end on the same view of a residential house or shop whilst so-called experts pontificate on the morality of the race and religion of the people arrested. This paranoia feeds into the mind of the public at large and destroys any prospect of building bridges between the various people in the community.

Also worth mentioning is that many of those arrested are hardly ever charged and are usually released. However, the media conveniently forgets to reports this and many of these people who are falsely arrested have their character tarnished and some even lose jobs.

The mass media is a potent weapon. Just look what Hitler and Goebbels did with their hate machine. They successfully killed off 6 million innocent people by feeding racial and religious lies. This may be an extreme example but it illustrates the very real power of the media to persuade a whole nation into accepting ideals that one would normally find abhorrent.

It`s as important to SPEAK as it is to LISTEN. Far too often we`re guilty of just shouting at the other side and we never pay any attention to what`s being said. We need calm and reason not futile anger. That`s the only way we`ll get closer to a long-lasting peace.

As I said, many of the comment on this thread fill me with dread. I`m an optimist but those words are chilling. That way lies madness and ruin.

RE: WHSMITH DVDs from 65p in their 90% off sale

Can anyone confirm if this Sale only applies to WHSmith online or are they also doing the 90% off in-store too?

Cheers for any info! ;)

RE: www.ddhe.com jan sale offers inc £200 discount!! of Gerry Anderson

That works now! :D

Cheers, matey! ;)