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RE: I`m testdriving a Limit-nearly bought one but.........
To happysnapper
Please confirm what you mean by `didn`t like the look of it`. Do you mean the nice silver colour or the picture quaility or maybe both?
AWP
RE: I`m testdriving a Limit
I bought one from Richer Sounds following their advice having originally gone in for the one model you are after, the Toshiba 210.
I too tried to find a formal review and failed -always nice to know what the pro`s think a etc.
All I can say is the picture resolution looks crisp and I would go as far to say very good. The red colour is a bit weak but only needed colour turned up about 5 to 10% above TV setting to compensate. Pause is great as is zoom. There is no identifiable colour bleed. I play back through a RGB scart lead (a good one £20) to a Panasonic TX25MD3 (yes I am working on upgrade next) and believe the cable is important in this game as a Hi Fi buff! Speaking of which...
On the sound - it doesn`t have the attack of my Hi-Fi Marantz CD67, Kenwood KA3020SE amp, Mission 780e (if that means anything to you) but it is acceptable -to me. Anyway I was not expecting it (for £200) to compete at this level and it has a 15 metre connection going through 2 juntions to get to the amp on the other side of the room. In fact (he says listening to Dire Straits Love Over Gold CD now checking) I have heard a lot worse for a lot more.
One question I have on the sound comment I have on sound is the level needs really turning up when only playing through 2 channels through the Hi Fi.
If you get to compare the Limit 8072 directly with the Toshiba (which does not have all the fcailities by the way) I sure like to know before my 14 day trial runs out.
As to making the two players Toshiba 210 and Sony 400. They require hardware mods. The former a software burn and the latter a chip change. I know Richer Sounds do the all region Toshiba. The other player to compare is Pioneer DV-444 which is availible multiregion and gets rave reviews.
Hope this helps?
AWP
RE: Limit 8072 Hack please
I used a hack labelled for the Limit DVD 8071 hack and it worked as follows:
Switch on the player
Open the drawer using `open/close` button on remote
On the remote control enter `8 4 2 1`. This will be display the region code on TV screen
Select the region code using the `OK` button (manual regions 1-6), automatic (non RCE discs) is region 9. Each time the button is pressed the number changes.
Close the drawer using the `open/close` button
It seems to do all the above but I have only region 2 discs at the moment.
Hope it works !!!!!
Have you seen any reviews of this player by the way?
AWP