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
completely miss the point.
Most are familiar with the now ubiquitous DVD one might rent from Blockbuster, buy in Virgin or order from Amazon ? but these are not the only digital formats you might encounter. The first complication is for foreign DVDs (i.e. ones which were intended for a region other than Europe) at which many players stumble ? I?m pleased to report that the Yamada has no problem ? and plays DVDs intended for any regional market without any fuss.
DVDs are recorded in a compressed digital format called MPEG2 ? which is fine with standard DVD media with a capacity of about 5Gb, however this is not the only prevalent modern digital format. MPEG4 is a new compressed format which encodes digital video in a more efficient way? this new technology is implemented in two different, common ?codecs? (coder/decoders) ? one called DivX ...
bristol_steve 16.02.2005
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Yamada DVX 6700
Advantages: cheap and plays 99% movie format Disadvantages: nothing
, when you switch the unit on the tv automatically changes over to the dvd player. I find it very quiet and blends in with the rest of my units under my tv, Sky tv unit and video.
the dimensions are 45 x 450 x 250 mm.
If you like downloading movie formats from the net Yamada is almost guarenteed to play them, i find avi and kvcd formats play quite well and the picture quality is excellent.
I'm sure you will be able to buy this unit for less than £40 now or try the updated version of Yamada.
All in all if you are looking for a cheap multiformat dvd player give this a go i have not had any problems yet and my player must be over a year old. ...
