... After scouting around, buying a few magazines and because of the other op on this player, I decided to buy the JMB DVD-3000, although the choice was limited, admittedly, because I bought it through Littlewoods Extra.
JMB seems to be a company that manufacture and sell products for the lower ... Read review
Advantages: Cheap, easy set-up Disadvantages: No VCD playback, won't play any form of recordable media, some jerky playback on certain DVDs
...I decided to buy the JMB DVD-3000, although the choice was limited, admittedly, because I bought it through Littlewoods Extra.
JMB seems to be a company that manufacture and sell products for the lower end of the market (I also have a fridge and freezer), but so far I have had no problems with anything from the company.
The DVD player was an absolute breeze to set up. You have the option of using scart or composite connections ... ...should be noted that the JMB DVD-3000 only plays DVD's and audio disks. It will not play VideoCD or anything that has been recorded on CDR/CDRW, which you don't find out until you open the box. I was a little annoyed by this as I have been doing a little video-editing of some home movies (daughters birthday and christening etc) and was looking forward to burning them as VCDs and watching them through the DVD instead of outputting to VHS and playing ... more
I decided to buy a DVD player because dargging the sofa across the room so that it was in front of my PC was becoming a bit of a pain. After scouting around, buying a few magazines and because of the other op on this player, I decided to buy the JMB DVD-3000, although the choice was limited, admittedly, because I bought it through Littlewoods Extra.
JMB seems to be a company that manufacture and sell products for the lower end of the market (I also have a fridge and freezer), but so far I have had no problems with anything from the company.
The DVD player was an absolute breeze to set up. You have the option of using scart or composite connections for the video signal. I had to use composite because my TV doesn't have a scart socket. At first I tried connecting through the scart on my OnDigital box but this caused interference on the DVD playback so I connected the composite and audio cables.
Setting up the menus and time was no problem, being very well laid out in the manual, so I slapped in a DVD. Playback was very smooth, with no noticable artifacts and the sound quality was reasonable, but this was limited by the TV speakers.
Now that I've owned the player for a week and have played most of my DVD's I have noticed that every now and again, the playback does jerk a little but it doesn't spoil the playback of the movies. Strangely this hasn't happened in high-action movies where I would have expected it (like Aliens or Gladiator) but rather during slower movies (Kevin & Perry and Entrapment)
You get everything you need in the box and the remote also comes with batteries. The machine is a brushed silver finish so it does look out of place between my video and OnDigital box, but aside from that I'm quite happy with my DVD player.
It should be noted that the JMB DVD-3000 only plays DVD's and audio disks. It will not play VideoCD or anything that has been recorded on CDR/CDRW, which you don't find out until you open the box. I was a little annoyed by this as I have been doing a little video-editing of some home movies (daughters birthday and christening etc) and was looking forward to burning them as VCDs and watching them through the DVD instead of outputting to VHS and playing through the Video.
Advantages: Cheap and works well Disadvantages: Dosent have some extra features
...player for you. JMB DVD players can be found at Littlewoods Extra (www.littlewoodsextra.com) at £139.99. They can probably be found elsewhere, but this is the only place I have seen them. So, your thinking to yourself ‘well I’ve never heard of JMB before, are they any good?’ and that’s just what I thought. Well, basically, they are at the lower end of the electronics market along with the likes of Daewoo, Alba and Mitsumi. ... ...forth. On saying that, the JMB DVD player that I have doesn’t look at all bad. The casing is silver along with the rest of the new products on the market and doesn’t have too many buttons on it to make it look ugly. You might have actually seen the same casing around on other makes or models as it seems to be a general casing for the lower budget DVD players. So, why would I recommend a JMB player to you? Basically because of its quality. ...
GR-Design 28.01.2001
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