Page 1 of Philips DVD701 vs Encore 450

Ok Haveing shipped my dodgy Encore 450 back to Amazon and realised that I would be without player for quite some time, given thier track record last december and all, I figured that I would go for refund and not replace.

This brought me to Tesco`s for my weekly shop and I was poking around thier selection of Wharf`s when I came accross the £200 (Give or take a penny) Philips.

Thinking "Hmm all the other stuff I have from Phillips is OK lets try this."

And I have to say I could not be mroe pleased. I have not once had a problem so far. Passes every test disc I could lay my hands on and horror of horrors it actually has a fairly resilient and well layed out remote!

What was wrong with your Encore?

I`ve just bought one meself...

Yes, but can you make it multi region? (and not just 25 times)

Are you putting a VCR through one of the scarts on the philips 711?

OK For what was wrong with my Encore there is a Playback problems with Encore 450 thread a little way down. But suffice to say it was a little touchy reading trouble discs (Matrix, Jurassic Park to name a couple) Skipping and freezing.

As to Multiregion. Well perhaps not but that is not really an immediate issue for me. Maybe it will be in the future?

And yes I do have a video plugged through the second Scart connector.

so you have the video through the 2nd scart on the 711 and it works?

Also what about problem disks with the 711

(all region 2)

Gladiator disk 2
Jaws
The Matrix

So overall you think the 711 is a good purchase from Tesco?