Page 1 of LG 3350 - hack works but.... wot, no VCD?

Great machine - my first experience on DVD... bought from Currys and was told VCD/CDR/CDRW/photoCD all OK. Ooops!

Hack works great (thanks IT Troll :) at least I think - "CODE" came up etc but no non-UK (is this R2? see, told you I was a newbie!) discs to test out.


But........what about no VCD??? I have a DV camcorder, wanted to digitally download to VCD - protect DV heads, faster searches, post out to bro in USA etc etc... Also, wanted to convert all VHS tapes to VCD - maybe even record from Sky through TV card on PC to CD rewriter onto VCD (or using MPEG encoder to DVD? anyone know if this is possible?) but all a waste of time if no VCD payback!!!!

Also, wanted to scan in entire photo album onto Photo CD format - fancied getting rid of dusty old albums... figured could get 650 photos on one disc at 100k each (that`s 40 spools! a few years` worth of pics - anyone done this - does the maths work like this?).

Anyway - majorly p***ed off! :@

Any ideas?

Oh dear. I think you`ve bought the wrong player if you want to do all that. The LGs lack of VCD is quite well publicised, however if Currys sold it to you as a VCD player you can take it back, as it is "not fit for purpose".

The only possibility for your Photo Album is if the LG will play a mini-DVD (short version of DVD on a CD-R). However I have not tried this as it is far too much effort.

>"if Currys sold it to you as a VCD player you can take it back, as it is "not fit for purpose"."

Correct terminology to save you any grief when returning the player is that it was "misrepresented"
They won`t give you any grief over that one!

If you need VCD playback, its time to look at the Aiwa 370, no Dolby Decoder and only one scart, but otherwise an LG 3350.

Take a peek here :-------->http://hometown.aol.co.uk/j1mmcd/myhomepage/newsletter.html

And if ya wanna order one, mail me at DCMM1J[at]moc.loa for details of a supplier who only has MULTI region models in stock!

By the way...Troll? Mind if I nick yer pics from your site? Wanna do a side by side comparison with the 3350 and the 370!
(by the way...hope ya noticed I gave ya a link in there! :oÞ)



AIWA 370 (officially) ROCKS!!!!!!!!!

Troll/Jimbo - thanks for the response - like the "misrepresented!" I take it you (Jimbo) work for Currys....... I`ve been following the threads on this and figured that you guys, between the two of you, would be able to sort me out.

I think I might be tempted to go for the Aiwa 370, so Jimbo - gimme the names, man!

But help - what does the Dolby Decoder mean? I have a Technics SA-DX940 £500 with 5+1 sub (100w each channel - blows you away!) which has a DVD Optical in as well as 6 DVD channel inputs. does this mean I have the decoder in my amp and therefore have not need for the DVD decoder?

If not, I don`t think I`m too fussed about not having DTS - someone told me that very few disks have DTS and Dolby Digital is enough - would I even have DDigital? Would I notice the difference?

Help!

Julian