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ANYONE BOUGHT THIS PLAYER FROM ASDA AND HAVE ANY INFO ON WHAT IT WILL AND WON`T DO
thanks

I bought one yesterday, just got a good feeling about it when I saw it. I don`t usually buy less well known brands but this unit is a cracker. I have tested it with R2 DVDs, VCDs, SVCDs, CDs, MP3 CD-Rs and it played them well. The only thing was that for MP3 CD-Rs you have to have all the tracks in the root as it doesn`t recognise sub-folders, don`t know how that compares with other DVD players. It claims to be Photo CD compatible but I haven`t tested that yet. It has a full compliment of outputs on the back for hooking up a 5.1 system including optical and is very configurable via the rather cool looking on screen menus.

In terms of quality, I thought it was superb. Easily matches any other DVD player I`ve seen and is noticeably better than the PS2/Region-X combo I was using before.

Oh, and it looks better than players costing 3 times as much.

Can`t find a region/macrovision hack for it yet but I think it`s too new. (It isn`t even listed on Schneiders web site yet)

I`d buy it if I were you.... but then I would say that!!!!

thanks for the info but its come just a bit late for me I went out and bought the Apex 1100wb from asda,slightly less on the specs but gives an excellent picture and plays dvd-r`s which is what I wanted the player for in the first place
thanks

what is the adress of schneiders web sit cos i have been looking for it for a while

thanx

Found it here:

http://www.schneider-ag.de/englisch/start.html

Then click the Schneider Electronics AG link.

Mark.

whats it compared to the 855?

that was a bag of crap and very buggy may take it back 2moz for one of these

thanks for the reply with the address benn away for a while