Advantages: Beautifully animated, entertaining and amusing in places Disadvantages: Slightly too long - perhaps not to everyone's taste
at children. Whilst it's easy to considered and dismiss them purely as 'cartoons', they often have great depth and appeal that goes beyond age and as such can be enjoyed by whole family's, children, or even just adults who enjoy "good drawings".
'My Neighbours The Yamadas' is a stylistic move away from the animation usually associated with Studio Ghibli. According to the blurb on the back of the DVD, writer-director Isao Takahata used "?digital production to create the feel of a moving watercolour sketch."
The movie is about the lives of the Yamada family, which consists of the mother and father Matsuko and Takashi, their young son and daughter, as well as Matsuko's live-in mother.
In some ways, the movie is also a move away from the typical Studio Ghibli style of story telling. Rather than being one long plot, the movie is more a series ...
Advantages: It plays EVERYTHING Disadvantages: Cheap construction
My Christmas present to myself this year was the ?Yamada-DVX-6700? ? which looks like a DVD player, works rather like a DVD player but offers a special something extra - this unit not only plays DVDs but many other digital formats too.
The device cost me ~£55 ? to make it price comparable with other DVD players? It replaces a CyberHome ?CH DVD 400? which only plays bone-fide DVDs ? and cost the same 18 months ago. The build quality of the Yamada is best described as ?cheap? ? but? don?t get me wrong ? it looks OK next to the TV ? only if you look closely is it obvious that every component has been made to the tightest of budgets ? everything from the flimsy eject-tray to the front-panel plastic buttons and cheesy digital display which might have looked modern in the 1980s. To criticise the unit on aesthetics, however, is to ...
bristol_steve 16.02.2005
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Advantages: Size, price, performance, quality Disadvantages: little green light
I have just gone out to buy this DVD player. I needed one just to use in the bedroom so didnt want to spend loads of money on it.
I spoke to a friend who recommended the Yamada 2600 dvd player, he said he had purchased one over a year ago and was well pleased with his. I had purchased a cheapy player from Asda (pacific model) not too long back but the picture kept breaking up because the disk kept sticking. This is a common fault with cheap players, the mechanism is just no good and its filled with cheap components. Anyway Asda gave me my money back with their no quibble guarantee and so I went to buy this player from Richer Sounds where I spend most of my time and money these days!!!!. I could not believe the technical specifications -
- Multi-region dvd player
- Dolby Digital & DTS SPDIF Digital out
- Dolby Down-Mix dual ...
stelladrinker 14.12.2004
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