Kiss DP1504 > Reviews > High Spec DVD Player

Author's product rating:   

Picture Playback	Excellent
Sound Level	Excellent
Range of Features	Above Average
Durability	Satisfactory
Value for Money	Good

Advantages:	Networked, 40Gb Hard drive
Disadvantages:	Slow Menus, Low quality remote

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

This DVD Player has a very compact size but does pack in a lot of features. When I purchased my Kiss player (Q1 2005) it was the only networkable DVD player available in the UK. Since then the market has become a little more crowed with Media PCs and other networked device, however the Kiss player still holds its own partly due to the fact that the Players Firmware (the software which produces the Menus) is upgradeable. The player has a 10\100 Ethernet port for wired connection to a network or a PCMCIA card slot for a wireless card. My player came with a free wireless card which I use to connect to my main PC network. The player will allow you to play a variety of computer files including Movies; AVI, MPG, DivX and I think XviD. Audio; Wav, MP3. Graphics; Gif and Jpg. These files can be shared from a PC\Mac on the same network or copied onto the players hard drive. The player also has a facility to listen to WebRadio, this is provided via a shoutcast application which is not up to the standard of Radio supplied by Digital satellite but is never the less very entertaining which plenty of channels to choose from. If you do buy one of these players you should keep checking the manufactures website for firmware updates as these updates add new features to the player or fix problems with previous versions. Now and again (once every few months) the software on the player does freeze and the player needs to be reset to clear the problem. This is where the only design fault becomes apparent, the player does not have a power button. Therefore the only way to reset the player is to unplug it from the mains, if like me you have a snakes tea party behind and around your TV this can be a bit of a pain. Overall though I would have to say this is an excellent DVD\media player and I would recommend it to anybody.