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Hi

Keep reading about how this is an excellent player for music but can anyone let me know - What is the picture like? Seriously considering buying one but cannot find any reviews. What HiFi give it a best buy award but there is no site review. HiFi choice give it a bit of a slating...seems to be no consistency.

Anyone......anyone??

Cheers - Much appreciated...

I bought one a month or two ago. Ironically enough I have played way more CDs on it than DVDs. Main reason I bought it was for decent CD playback, which turned out to be true. Lovely sound.

DVDs look nice & sharp. Vivid colours. Way better than my old Scan player (which was the latest version and wasn`t actually too bad in itself). No blockies seen on any disc yet. Some grain problems on parts of crap discs (e.g. Antz) but I blame the discs for that.

Sorry I`m not much of a reviewer but if you have questions I might be able to answer them.

Did Hifi Choice really slag it off?


Fergus

Cheers very much Fergus

At the moment I have an old Encore 450 (bought as part of the DVD/Dreamcast bundle)from Game last year. the player is actually very good (good picture on the whole - bit flimsy build wise) and have been looking at upgrading. I believe HIFI Choice only gave the Marantz 2/5 for performance.

I`ve been looking at it as we`ve just moved into a new house and rather than have the TV/Video/DVD setup as well as HiFi setup I thought I`d get a decent DVD that plays CDs well to cut down on the space taken by another cabinet. I`ve not been able to find an local dealers that stock the Marantz (just placed an order for it now -along with the SR5200 A/V reveiver) I`m into the films - the girlfriends into the music - so it seemed like a nice compromise. I know its got the best buy award in What HiFi but I didn`t know if that was based on its music capabilty. Got a bit worried thinking about the visual side of things. My other choice was going to be the Pioneer 545.

Any other info would be more than helpful.

Thanks

This item was edited on Wednesday, 28th November 2001, 15:55

2/5 for performance??? They must have connected it up with composite video using bellwire or something.

I use a Cambridge Audio gold scart (20 quid) into a Philips 32PW6305. Last DVD I watched was American Pie and the picture quality made me go "wow". Whether you care to put that down to the player, or the disc, the fact is that I never saw a disc look as good on my old machine.

I think you will be happy.

BTW it can be region hacked v. easily, albeit with the use of a one-for-all remote. Procedure is available on this site.

What else... plays CD-Rs fine. VERY quiet in operation. On screen menus are decent. It remembers the position you stopped watching on each of the last twenty discs - pop the disc back in and you can resume where you left off. Seems to use standard Philips remote codes so no problems if you want to use a universal remote (I`m hoping for a Pronto from Santa)


Fergus

Cheers Fergus

Now just got to wait for the postie - looking forward to getting some new toys and the amp has every input I need plus a few.

Thanks for the quick response. As I say, my existing player has performed really good for the price but time to step up a grade. Just have to watch all my films again, taking advantange of the sound this time.

Fergus (or anyone else who may be able to help)


xxx just edited - found out what i needed xxx

This item was edited on Monday, 3rd December 2001, 23:03