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Aldo: Tevion 5.1 Channel DivX DVD Player. £29.99
DNZ711
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As stated Aldi will be flogging this (beast of a) machine this thursday.
Aldi advertise it as;
All this for £29.99 and a 3 year warrany.
I mean for 30 quid it may be worth a purchase as I hate watching Avi's on my PC, plus it has USB / Card reader ports so a possability to play movies without having to burn a disc?
What are your thoughts?
-DNZ :eek:
PS: Sorry for no linky but the url for the dvd player is not showing up on my address bar for some reason? But i can give you this;
www.aldi.co.uk
Thankyou.
Aldi advertise it as;
- Built in 5.1 decoder
- Divx (Mpeg4) compatible
- Multi memory card reader
- Mp3's Jpeg etc...
- Finally...... USB!
All this for £29.99 and a 3 year warrany.
I mean for 30 quid it may be worth a purchase as I hate watching Avi's on my PC, plus it has USB / Card reader ports so a possability to play movies without having to burn a disc?
What are your thoughts?
-DNZ :eek:
PS: Sorry for no linky but the url for the dvd player is not showing up on my address bar for some reason? But i can give you this;
www.aldi.co.uk
Thankyou.
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-DNZ :eek:
People queued up at the door of Lidl stores around the country, and when the doors opened they rushed in grabbed as many as they could (most stores only had about 20 each so most people were disappointed). Some people bought 10 players each, kept a few for friends and family and sold the rest for double the price on eBay! That's a market economy for you.;)
Plays avi and mpg movies off a USB memory stick fine as well as wma and mp3 music tracks. Wont recognise mp4 files though.
Thats a pc...
Just Google the model number. What is it anyway?
It weren't when i linked to it.
Hi silent Bob,
just bought one today i already have a Goodmans GDVD161DX and the software is very close tried the hack below and it worked a treat, i was a bit let down that the player didnt play nero files as suggested in the alda website. ill ring support and ask about firmware upgrade
How to convert your Goodmans GDVD161DX player into a multi-region compatible machine
To convert this player to multi-region
1. Power off your DVD player
2. Power on your DVD player
3. Press the Open button on your remote control to open the drive tray
4. Press the 1 button on your remote control
5. Press the 0 button on your remote control
6. Press the 3 button on your remote control
7. Press the 0 button on your remote control
8. Press the 0 button on your remote control for multi-region playback
9. The onscreen display will indicate the currently selected region
10. Power off your DVD player
11. Power on your DVD player
NB: You may need to reset the parental controls after performing this procedure
http://www.dvd.reviewer.co.uk/info/multiregion/full/goodmans161.asp
I also played a 500mb divx file from an SD card worked fine
Best regards
Vilks
Couldnt find anything about this model on t'internet at all and only bought it for the USB/card reader slots to play xvid and divx files.
Thank you for the region hack above. It works perfectly.
Which is odd as on the box and in the manual it definitely states that it will play AAC and MPEG4 files.
I have tried renaming AAC audio files from iTunes .M4A extension to .MP4 and it simply doesn't even list the file in the Navigator. The same goes for various MPEG4 video files I have.
It will "see" WMV files, but gives an "Unknown CODEC" error when you try to play them.
It can also be a bit picky with the audio on some XviD files.
My only other gripes are the bright, "alternating" LED display and the transport can be a bit noisy.
At the end of the day, it was £30 though.
PS i REALLY wanted one of these but I need surround sound and cannot afford a seperate Analogue 5.1 amp! :mad:
-DNZ :eek:
Thanks
FaiLSaFe
It's played every dvd, vcd and dvix movie i have tried so far.
It also played movies off my usb memory stick.
I did try an external hard drive but it wouldn't read the root directory, but i found that if your harddrive is ntfs formatted it will not read it, so i converted it to fat32 and now it works fine with divx and xvid. I have not tried it with dvd movies from the harddrive because fat32 has problems with files bigger than 4gb so i believe.
Yes. I have a 15GB Sony Vaio USB 2 HD which works flawlessly - it must be formatted to FAT32 though.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v474/smallclone/IMG00116.jpg
I'll post a better picture later if I can. The batteries in my camera just died.
Also, for those looking for a speaker system to go with it have a looky here:
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deal/2295/5-1-home-theatre-speaker-system-bla
FaiLSaFe
I would be interested to know if there were any available firmware updates around? The manual lists the www.akura.com website but no mention of any on there.