Yamada DVR 8400X

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... Read review

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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.... Read review

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Advantages: looks good, plays all dvd types
Disadvantages: sometimes slow

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