Kiss DP450

Advantages: Plays most formats, firmware upgradeable
Disadvantages: No QPel Support, slow firmware updates

...With the creation of DivX and XviD technology, the ability to compress both video and audio (MP3, OGG) allows us to transfer many more recordings across other smaller capacity mediums without losing much of the quality. You can now compress a full length DVD film to fit on a standard CD-R and it still looks great. I don't refer to the Kiss player as a DVD Player, as it plays so much more. It's much better suited to be described as a home entertainment system. Out of the box it covers most common codecs; DivX 3.11+, XviD, MPEG2, MPEG, JPG, MP3 to name most. Basically if you download content from the Internet, this is most likely to play it, and at fantastic quality. You may be thinking, why get one of these when I can watch everything on my PC? The answer is simple. The quality that this will playback compressed content will seem... Read review

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Advantages: Plays all the content and file types you can throw at it
Disadvantages: Plenty of bugs, little firmware updates and the Online Extras are useless

...I have owned the Kiss DP-600 player since the day it came out. So far it has not failed to play a media type thrown at it. Unfortunatly Kiss have only released a few firmware updates. The player is still full of Bugs. For example - *a Green screen when the player turns on *Difficulty in Upgrading and Downgrading Firmware *HDMI issues still (my HDMI decided it would stop working) *Access speeds from USB port to an External usb HDD make high definition content on the hard disk pretty much unplayable. *Power off feature doesnt always switch to full standby more like a hibernate mote Dispite a couple of firmware updates to do not think Kiss have taken their time with this product. In my opinion this is now very over priced for its age. And looking around you can buy HD media player which is more up to date than the Kiss 600. At one stage... Read review

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Advantages: divx, pc connectivity (wired and wireless)
Disadvantages: operating system sometimes clunky

...For all its foibles (and for all the neckache I got from my missus for buying it), I still rate this player. It really comes into it's own if you've large media collection on your PC (mp3, divx, photos etc), but don't want a computer sat in the corner of your living room. A couple of recommendations straight off - if you want to use it with wifi make sure you get a card recommended by KISS, as not all are compatble (only runs on 802.11b) Secondly invest in EZlink (google search for this) - its a piece of third party software which allows you to connect your PC to the player. It's head and shoulders above the free KISS PClink that is available as a download from the KISS site. Finally, download the latest firmware from the site. As I said the thing has it's little idiosyncracies - it does crash sometimes, and doesnt recognise all divx... Read review

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