I bought this bargain-basement HDMI DVD player from Currys Digital on Oxford Street, to play through my newly purchase 40" Sony Bravia LCD TV. The cost was a mere £40, only a few pounds more than a regular DVD player. Currys also sold me an overpriced HD cable...£25, whereas such cables are ... Read review
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A review by Jonty-l on Goodmans GDVD148 March 27th, 2007
Author's product rating:
Picture Playback
Excellent
Sound Level
Good
Range of Features
Limited
Durability
Very Poor
Value for Money
Poor
Advantages:
Cheapest HDMI that I could find on the market .
Disadvantages:
It shows !
Recommend to potential buyers:
no
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I bought this bargain-basement HDMI DVD player from Currys Digital on Oxford Street, to play through my newly purchase 40" Sony Bravia LCD TV. The cost was a mere £40, only a few pounds more than a regular DVD player. Currys also sold me an overpriced HD cable...£25, whereas such cables are generally available for around £15.
Set up was easy - I didn't even need to refer to the instruction manual. Inital impression was very positive. The picture quality was very good indeed, significantly better playback than through a regular DVD player, my only concern being that at the start of playback (when the disc is turning more quickly) the motor is quite noisy, disturbingly so in a quiet room. The noise quietens as the film progressses.
However an early problem was intermittent frame freezing - I thought initially the problem might have been a dirty DVD, but the problem was inconsistent, and applied to a range of DVDs that played well through other machines.
After 6 weeks of light use, the machine developed a more major fault. When the disc drawer closed, the machine immediately went to standby mode and refused to spin up and play. I wouldn't expect these sort of problems on a new machine, and I'm thinking of returning the machine to Currys to ask for my money back, as it does not seem to be of durable and merchantable quality. I should have spent a little more money and bought a better brand name, such as Phillips.
I purchased this based on price. Big mistake! While it does have alot of features including Freeview, the sound quality is awful if you connect all the speakers. Basically if you connect the subwoofer it creates a buzzing sound that is very intrusive ant more
