"El Cheapo" DVD candidates thread - Page 3

yldouright · 28th December 2004, 07:03 PM

Bricolo
Yes. In fact, there are firmware upgrades available which bring SACD capability to players on the market if there is a supporting chipset. In the case of your computer's DVD player, the software decoding the playback is responsible for this and not the player. Whatever software you use to decode the SACD recording, the OPU on the player should be able to read the pits on it and send data to it.

yldouright · 29th December 2004, 05:47 PM

Another candidate that was presented to me via email was the Philips DVP-642. Does anyone here have any first hand experience with it?

demogorgon · 29th December 2004, 06:06 PM

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Originally posted by yldouright
demogorgon
Well, we really need a first hand assessment of the mechanical qualities. As carlosfm pointed out in the "Super Cheap" DVD thread, what's the point of putting the time and money into modding a player if the switches and transports fail the day after you make it sound perfect?!

yes, offcource you are totally right, but I din't have any super cheap dvd's lying around to check out, so i try to contribute what i can find out.

cheers!
marius

fish4u · 29th December 2004, 08:31 PM

hi !! nice thread!
maybe in the spirit of perpective a little benckmark (caution its a large one

)
nice to see guys like Panasonic beats out the $1000+ machines on what chroma,mpeg it actually pass or fail.
no mention of durability though.
theres also some audio rants but i dont see any list list or benchmarks. thanks.

ThorstenL · 7th January 2005, 02:57 PM

Konnichiwa,

It seems the darn eytalians are again ahead of everyone else....

Here is a 575 modded by Labtek:

http://www.labtek.it/it/dept_9.html

Someone was even kind enough already to take a snap of the insides of the modded unit....

Has anyone here actually got a 575? The reviews I noticed suggested that the firmware when they shipped had loads of missing features and bugs.....

Sayonara

edjosh23 · 8th January 2005, 06:04 AM

what ever happened to this thread, I was reading it, but then I stopped for a while and not much has been added. I wanted to try something new like modding a dvd player.

7th January 2005, 02:57 PM	#25
ThorstenL Previously: Kuei Yang Wang Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Somewhere nice on planet earth	Modded Pioneer DV-575A Konnichiwa, It seems the darn eytalians are again ahead of everyone else.... Here is a 575 modded by Labtek: http://www.labtek.it/it/dept_9.html Someone was even kind enough already to take a snap of the insides of the modded unit.... Has anyone here actually got a 575? The reviews I noticed suggested that the firmware when they shipped had loads of missing features and bugs..... Sayonara

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28th December 2004, 07:03 PM	#21
yldouright diyAudio Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: New York, NY	Bricolo Yes. In fact, there are firmware upgrades available which bring SACD capability to players on the market if there is a supporting chipset. In the case of your computer's DVD player, the software decoding the playback is responsible for this and not the player. Whatever software you use to decode the SACD recording, the OPU on the player should be able to read the pits on it and send data to it.

29th December 2004, 05:47 PM	#22
yldouright diyAudio Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: New York, NY	Another candidate that was presented to me via email was the Philips DVP-642. Does anyone here have any first hand experience with it?

29th December 2004, 08:31 PM	#24
fish4u diyAudio Member Join Date: Oct 2004	hi !! nice thread! maybe in the spirit of perpective a little benckmark (caution its a large one ) nice to see guys like Panasonic beats out the $1000+ machines on what chroma,mpeg it actually pass or fail. no mention of durability though. theres also some audio rants but i dont see any list list or benchmarks. thanks.

8th January 2005, 06:04 AM	#26
edjosh23 diyAudio Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Raleigh/Atlanta	what ever happened to this thread, I was reading it, but then I stopped for a while and not much has been added. I wanted to try something new like modding a dvd player.

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