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Mega small, mega cheap MPEG4 player!
Loobster
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I was just window shopping in Currys today. They had a very small Amstrad player which said "MPEG 4" on the box. I thought well that's very small, but what's the price. I found the price tag and it was just £19.99!
I bought one and took it home, looked through the manual over lunch and there was no mention of MPEG4 whatsoever, just MP3 and JPG playback, so I was getting worried.
However, I just tested it and it plays all the latest DivX/Xvid files I downloaded (Lost, Battlestar Galactica, etc), perfectly! I tried +R/+RW/-RW disks, all play with no problems. It also plays DVD-ISOs with no problems. This drive is very small indeed and is perfect for those wanting a DivX player to take on the road to use with hotel TVs etc. It has both SCART and RCA outputs.
The model number is Amstrad DX3092.
I bought one and took it home, looked through the manual over lunch and there was no mention of MPEG4 whatsoever, just MP3 and JPG playback, so I was getting worried.
However, I just tested it and it plays all the latest DivX/Xvid files I downloaded (Lost, Battlestar Galactica, etc), perfectly! I tried +R/+RW/-RW disks, all play with no problems. It also plays DVD-ISOs with no problems. This drive is very small indeed and is perfect for those wanting a DivX player to take on the road to use with hotel TVs etc. It has both SCART and RCA outputs.
The model number is Amstrad DX3092.
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Only thing im concerned about is I want to attach a 5.1 surround system soon. This player probs wont maximise it to its full potential.
Cheers mate, do you know if it plays .avi? (DivX/XVid)
Could you try and get hold of an XVid .avi file and see if it plays mate?
Cheers
The only issue I have found is that rarely I find an MPEG4 video that is fine with the picture, but the audio is patchy, runs ahead or behind, or some other audio anomaly which makes it unwatchable. Later when I have time I am going to see if I can work out the problem, I suspect it's a particular type of audio stream that the player doesn't recognise. Perhaps this will be fixed with a firmware update. Unfortunately as this is a new player there doesn't seem to be much support for it yet.
Hm thats quite a big issue for me- i hate out of sync issues.
We're going along anyway to see if we can find anything similar I'll look out for the DVD player while I'm there I'd like one for the bedroom.
Sounds a cracking little unit for the money, and hopefully it will help win me some brownie points when my wife can watch Desparate Housewives without having to wait for me to hook up the laptop to the tv.
They were not even on display - just kind of forgotten about in a pile at the back. They hadn't even put up a price/description card. The salesman said that it was cheap for a DVD player, and when I said it was DivX etc he said it wasn't. Well, whatever!!!
Looks a great unit - can't wait to get it home now
As for the TV it was £250 on comets website, £235 on Currys website but only £199 instore so i ordered it it's coming wednesday.
£199 for 28" pureflat widescreen integrated freeview with S-video.
Worked ok last night.....but this morning the remote packed in!
It played all the downloaded films and tv series i threw at it last night, so fingers crossed this one will be ok.
Not so good on some MP4 files I have, but I always had problems getting these to play on my PDA (must try to remember why!!)
Are you sure the remote has packed up? Mine does seem to be a bit sensitive to direction and distance.
It was definitly dead. It worked initially, as long as it was directly inline with unit, but then it wouldn't do anything at all.
This one works much better. The buttons feel firmer too.
All the files I've tried work, had a sync problem with one, but it's the same on the PC.
Is it just me, or is the red led the brightest thing you've ever seen? lol
£20, loads of stock at my local Curry's, who'll sell you the SCART lead half price at the same time. So all in all, a pretty good deal.
I'm not sure I expect it to last more than a year but for £20 I'm still happy.
AND it's really quite attractive. I was thinking I'd have to hide it somewhere but it's quite pretty really. Much nicer than some of Lite-On's stuff.
GSpot will show how the file was encoded and whether it uses the above methods.