obeney(Harmless) posted this on Tuesday, 24th October 2000, 03:30
As a Brit (gone Native in the US) I`m successfully converting old home movies into NTSC VCD`s and SVCD`s playable on my US Pioneer DVD 333 ($249 USD). (I haven`t seen a comparable UK model???)
I`m now practicing with PAL. I want to send them to relatives in the UK, BUT, I need to buy them DVD players.
1. What`s a good (cheap) UK DVD player that will play VCD`s? 2. Are there ANY that will play SVCD`s????? 3. And - where is best to buy them (mail order preferably)? 4. So long as they play regular DVD`s with acceptable quality, no special features are needed.
Cheers & Tally Ho.
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AlteredReality(Mostly Harmless) posted this on Tuesday, 24th October 2000, 09:53
well you have a few choices
Wharfedale DVD-750 & 750s - both play vcd / svcd from cd-r www.tesco.co.uk £179.99
Scan / Daewoo - same as above, both play vcd / svcd, but not quite as good pic quality www.scan.co.uk / www.argos.co.uk £174.99 / £179.99
Shinco (various models) - all latest models play vcd / svcd (and megadrive games :) ) www.lik-sang.com (HK company) £various
hope thats some help to you, there are others, but in budget range they are the best imho
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Dan Bates(Admin) posted this on Tuesday, 24th October 2000, 11:40
Another reasonable alternative would be the Manhattan 2000 which is the machine from which the Scan and the Daewoo are derived - look for a review here soon ! Can be purchased from Eurosat.
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Shaun(Competent) posted this on Tuesday, 24th October 2000, 16:08
u sure wer`e not related obeney..hope i`m on that shopping list :-)
Tosh is da Bollox!!!
Shaun
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Poncho(Competent) posted this on Wednesday, 25th October 2000, 16:55
>>>As a Brit (gone Native in the US)
What did you want to go and do that for???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
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obeney(Harmless) posted this on Thursday, 26th October 2000, 03:45
Oh... I dunno........., money, big houses, room to breathe, climate, 1/3 lower cost of living, standard of living, awesome fishing, big garages, lotsa toys............
Seriously - thanks for the advice. The Wharfdale seems to crop up often in recommendations but I see a few postings here which worry me a bit. The Missus is traveling over in a few weeks and I`ll give her one of my home-brewed SVCD`s to test. Is the only way to get a Wharfdale from Tesco mail order or do they have them demo`d in their stores?
More of a techie question........Has anyone taken NTSC feed material avi`s and converted to PAL (25 fps) and obtained good SVCD results using TMPGEnc (v12) to make the MPEG2`s???? Were TMPGEnc`s standard PAL templates OK or were special settings needed?
