Page 1 of Thomson DTH4200.......is it actually any good ???

I am seriously considering buying one of these babies because of the price drop and its supposed to play pretty much anything you throw at it.Does anyone know where to get a proper review of it though or own experiences of the machine? I really want to know if the picture is up to scratch or grainy pulsating crap like the encore 450
thx in advance :-)

The Thomson DTH 4200 is a rebadged Samsung 611.

If they work fine, then they are good value players.

The reason why I didn`t buy one, was because I heared about some problems with both players and the Aiwa 370 didn`t have any, so I went for the Aiwa.

Great player by the way :)

Just make sure that the store of your choice will have a good refund policy.
So if there should rise up any problems, that u can swap it for another player or get your money back.

And of course u know that all these models that I`ve mentioned have a remote hack, to make them regionfree...

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Have a look at www.thomson-multimedia.com/vus/03/033/f033.htm or better still http://www.thomson-europe.com/Frame/1,3040,,00.html?language=25&countryID=724.

The Thomson site is a bu**er to navigate around.

Sorry no first hand experience of the player, but I would be interested in yr opinion should you decide to get one.

Yoshi, all your problems are over, Argos sell them, I had one over Christmas and it wasn`t too bad. It played all my VCD,s and MP3`s although it did jump a few times on the mp3`s though, which is one of the reasons I took it back, no questions asked.Its also not very SILVER, front is but the rest of it`s pretty grey.
Good old Argos, pity they don`t sell the Aiwa, I could see what the champagne one looked like with my TV,Vid.

This item was edited on Monday, 8th January 2001, 16:24

I went out and bought the player from argos.....they were out of stock but they had a managers special on the side for £190 :-)
Anyway got it home and the picture is superb on it (better than the warfedale 750 I took back the other day) and I havent noticed it skipping chapters or jumping at all.Mp3 playback is pretty cack and skips like mad constantly but I didnt want it for that anyway I got meh winamp ;D
VCD playback also seems to be clearer than the wharfedale was with less artifacts etc.
Only thing is now I read on a forum about 30 letters about the sammy 611 (same player?) and ppl were all complaining about it skipping and being rather crappy,sometimes after a few weeks when previously fine.
So im a bit worried this things gonna go pete tong after the 16 money back thingy is up at argos but from how it looks now (after playing matrix for 5 hours straight to test it) things look really good with it.
Seems an impressive player for the money, just keeping my fingers crossed that none of the bad stuff comes along to p1$$ things up.

BTW the region hack was a doddle to do (missus did it for me while I was out LOL)
When u put in the hack though there is nothing displayed on the TV screen until the end when it displayes a 02 at the top corner so it seems as if its not working until then.Its also permanent as well (I read it was temporary).
If anyone else has bought one of these players pls let me know your experiences good/bad
thx :-)

"Mp3 playback is pretty cack and skips like mad constantly but I didnt want it for that anyway I got meh winamp ;D"

Then why buy the Thomson???
The only thing I can think of is that it has a nice facia....
As far as I know, a piece of equipment should do whatever the manufacturer tells you it does.
Then again it`s the world of DVD`s that we`re talking about and of course it`s your call....


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This item was edited on Tuesday, 9th January 2001, 08:31