... I wasn't overly concerned and decided to get a newer version of a Jamo DVD player, DMR 60.
The design is quite slick and fits with pretty much any piece of equipment. Looks very nice in your room among TVs, amplifiers, etc. But that's pretty much all as far as pros go.
On the downside... ... Read review
Advantages: Design; connectivity Disadvantages: DVD player; menus
...a newer version of a Jamo DVD player, DMR 60.
The design is quite slick and fits with pretty much any piece of equipment. Looks very nice in your room among TVs, amplifiers, etc. But that's pretty much all as far as pros go.
On the downside... well.. where should I start? My first disappointment was it's menu system. It's like you are going back to the 80s and not in a good way! The menu design is very primitive (remember ... ...
After having had numerous ruined movie nights with this player, I decided to dump it and get a new, NOT Jamo one! I certainly DO NOT recommend anyone to get a Jamo DVD player as they can be full of nasty surprises and definitely lack reliability. ... more
I used to have DMR 50. It was a decent piece of equipment, even though with some quirks. Very unfortunately, after about two years the DVD player went... well... s***apens. I wasn't overly concerned and decided to get a newer version of a Jamo DVD player, DMR 60.
The design is quite slick and fits with pretty much any piece of equipment. Looks very nice in your room among TVs, amplifiers, etc. But that's pretty much all as far as pros go.
On the downside... well.. where should I start? My first disappointment was it's menu system. It's like you are going back to the 80s and not in a good way! The menu design is very primitive (remember your Commodores and Sinclairs, well, you get the idea), the file menu can't even display more than a few letters in a file name, so if you have a bunch of files with similar names (for example, few episodes of a series), you are stuck 'cause you can't say which file is which! The old DVR 50 menu system was much better. I have no idea why they decided to jump back in time!
As an allegedly attractive new add-on the DMR 60 features a built-in memory stick reader. I have to warn you -- it's good to browse through photos but unfortunately the interface is way too slow to watch motion pictures, even at a reasonably low quality. So don't get overexcited.
I guess I could live with the sub-standard menue and less than perfect memory stick reader, but my bitterest diappointment has been with the DVD player itself. It's extremely capricious and unreliable. It tends to freeze in the middle of a disc and wouldn't go further regrdless of all my efforts (on-off, reboot, etc) It's particularly unreliable with double layer discs. It would only digest certain types of DLs (most expensive ones - surprise, surprise!) and even with those you never know whether you'll be able to watch till the very end. At the benning, this was only a problem with self-burnt discs, whereas commercial (pre-fab) discs were being digested quite well with hardly any complaints. As the player grew older (it's only 18 months old now!) it got increasingly more unreliable. These days even with a bona fide licenced DVD I never know whether the player would let me through the entire movire or turns dead at some point! My computers digest ALL those discs easily without a hiccup, so I can't really blame the discs.
After having had numerous ruined movie nights with this player, I decided to dump it and get a new, NOT Jamo one! I certainly DO NOT recommend anyone to get a Jamo DVD player as they can be full of nasty surprises and definitely lack reliability.
