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Hi All,

A common question im sure! My old Samsung 709 is dying (god rest its bits), I need the best DVD player I can for about £150. The Pioneer 575 appears to be well liked by most so should I just go for that?

My samsung suffers a little from, urm, not sure what the tehcnical term is but when playing `finding nemo`, where the colour of the sea goes from light to dark yuo can see the change is quite blockey and not smooth, posturising is it maybe?? I am told that there is no garentee newer players dont do this either?

I have just bought a Panasonic PM11 28 Wide TV which is great to me, have a decent Yamaha amp with good speakers too. Dont think the TV can do progressive scan (not totally sure what that is) as there is no component in on the TV? so dont know if i need all that stuff for the future or not?

Any thoughts? have DVD players come on a long way since my 709, or is it much of the same again just with different connections?

I am pretty much a novice at this!

Thanks!!

:) I think the pioneer is a great machine, it`s multiregion and has great sound
I`ve got the DVR-520H thers not much out there to touch it at that price.
I`ve just done what you are doing and that was my findings. See VHS to DVD
on the forum. I`m no expert but I know what I like.:D

Have the pioneer myself and it is a fantastic machine. can be a bit overly senstive and sometimes skips on discs my Tosh plays with no problems.

i have a hyundai 320A this i region hacked with remote control
its dts ready can read dvd, dvd+r, dvdr, cdr, cdrw , cd, vcd, svcd and has progressive scan particalarly handy if your thing of getting a high def tv such as rear projection, plasma ect. a picture of this machine is available on the hacker page of theis website

i got mine for around £270 from littlewoods but i`m not sure they have them now as i hav`nt bought anything from a catalogue in over 3 years

check out some of the web pages. if this is for you hop it helps

This item was edited on Tuesday, 18th January 2005, 22:19

hi there

i have a cambridge audio 77, absolutely love it. mum has toshiba 340 its fantastic also, both player are MR, play dvd-r/rw etc

Bought the Pioneer and been very happy with it so far. Had a bit of a problem the other day trying to a play an VCD (some photos we`d converted onto VCD). Brought up a menu asking if I wanted to browse the files or play as DIVX. Then discovered I`d put in the CD with the original photos - not the VCD! DUH!

One thing I don`t like is to go to a specific time point you need to go through a couple of menus. With the Wharfedale I could just type in the time point.

Has played everything I`ve thrown at it. DVD, DVD-R, SVCD, VCD and DIVX. Picture quality is good. Remote is nice and clear.

Haven`t bought the component cables yet, so output is just via the RGB Scart.

I`m sure there`s some more stuff it can do - maybe I should read the manual :D

I was seriously looking at the Pioneer 575 as my Pioneer DV505 is on her way out (I loved that machine - bought in 1998 £450. then and has played EVERYTHING).

However whilst looking at various reviews on the 575 the one in Home Cinema Choice says that it can play DVDR+ media - but if you look on the official Pioneer site and on retailers sites that stock it there is no mention of it able to play + media.

Anybody know if it can play + discs? Also I`m after a black one - anybody know who has black ones available? - my searches have only led me to silver ones.

Badboybez

In Madness You Dwell

This item was edited on Tuesday, 18th January 2005, 23:14

Pricerunner shows 2 places with black ones - http://www.pricerunner.co.uk/sound-and-vision/vision/dvd-players/222089/prices. Don`t know what the companies are like though.

Don`t have any + disks to try in I`m afraid, but www.dvdrhelp.com seems to suggest it can play +

Cheers WRabbit I`ll delve deeper.

Badboybez

In Madness You Dwell

£105 at empire heres the linky thing

www.empiredirect.co.uk/content/products/details/index.asp?modelcode=PIO-DV575AS&affiliateid=76&bhcp=1

This item was edited on Wednesday, 19th January 2005, 07:52