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Seen this machine mentioned a few times on here before and i bought one. then yesterday i was doing some christmas browsing and found that WHSmith.co.uk are now selling it for £29.99. If only i`d waited another few weeks

skyworth player

merry christmas

This item was edited on Wednesday, 8th December 2004, 10:59

:( You really know how to ruin someones day!!! Just got this ......yadretsey[at]esr!!!!!

But hang on... don`t they have a 30 day back offer..... And don`t they say you can return it to any of their high street shops??

Perhaps their is a god...... lemmy be thy name.....

This item was edited on Wednesday, 8th December 2004, 11:17

Was wondering; knowing that this is alot to ask for £30....
But does anyone whos bought this player recently know whether it supports Qpel, GMC and/or B frames..... Just that my current one doesn`t and whatever I get next really needs to. Plus I am trying to legitimate spending on myself when at this time of year I should be thinking of others (maybe the cat would like a Divx player for Christmas).


Ta very much for any advice you can give.

Bob.C

This item was edited on Wednesday, 8th December 2004, 13:08

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Qpel, GMC and/or B frames.....

Any chance of a translation, please.

Usual questions is it multi region ?

Here is the official line, regarding multi region, from WH Smith web site

About the DVD Video format

Using digital technology to provide excellent sound and picture quality, the DVD format appears set to become the standard for home entertainment.

To control the release of DVDs, discs are manufactured with one of six "Region Codes" and will only play on DVD Players with the matching code.
Region 2 DVDs and players are available in Europe, South Africa, Japan and The Middle East (inc. Egypt)

WHSmith.co.uk sells only Region 2 DVDs.
As the machines main selling point is the ability to play Divx, does it realy matter if it is Region 2 only?

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Played my Region1 DVD`s fine....

Paull, the most understandable answer is that GMC (Global Motion Compensation) & Qpel (Quarter Pixel Motion Compensation) are more advanced attributes that can be applied when encoding in MPEG4 (Divx, Xvid, 3vix etc.), whilst still coming under the Advanced Simple Profile banner.
The important bit is that the resultant file, MB for MB, has superior picture quality. If you wish to know the science behind it then all the info you could ever want is at

http://www.videohelp.com

The increased complexity of these files however means that some Divx chipsets are unable to decode the file. I currently have a player based on the ESS Vibratto II (as found in Philips, Crystal & Medion players) and it is unable to show anything with these attributes. They read the disc then display a message say "Qpel Codec Not Supported".

As far as I know, the only chipset that currently supports these features is the Mediatek; as found in Yamada 6600. Not sure what the Yamada 6700 has in it but I gather its a newer revision that has even more bells and whistles (maybe someone can flesh this point out for me??). The Yamada site stated before launch that there was support for Divx Pro but I see that has since been removed as the product has come to market.

Original point anyway is that if it supports these features then you have increased compatibility.

Hope this helps.

Bob.C

This item was edited on Wednesday, 8th December 2004, 16:46

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Hope this helps.

Yes it`s helped a bit. I`m after a Divx player but I want it to play all Divx (if poss). I have read on another forum that whilst useing these players sometimes a picture from another part of the disc breaks through onto the movie etc you are presently watching,, so I`m not sure.

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Can you tell us:

1. what connections there are on the back of the player (and does it have a VGA connector, like some previous skyworth players)., and
2. does it do progressive scan.

Thanks