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I've recently purchased an Avayon DXP 1000 DVD player. Unlike most DVD players of the current generation, this plays DivX, XviD, MPEG, VCD (1.0 and 2.0) SVCD, DVD +/- R/RW, MP3, Photo, CD-RW, CD-R. It does it all, well, mostly.
First off, I have to say, for the price, this DVD Player is a great bargain compared to other DivX certified DVD players. You can see here ( <--link) that it is the cheapest DVD player of any of them. I ordered mine from www.jr.com and recieved it in 3 days standard ground.
Taking it out of the box, I quickly hooked it up with the rest of my tiny entertainment center (see below) and fired it up. The greeting screen is nothing special, it looks more or less exactly like the opper left hand corner of the players box.
The main reason I bought this DVD player was for my DivX "backups" to free up the tangled mess of cables crossing my room from the TV-Out of my PC to the switchbox on my TV. So I pulled the DVD of DivX files from the top of my spool and popped it in the player. The DVD was Seasons 1 and 2 of Family Guy.
The DVD player quickly recognized it was a DivX DVD and took my to a simple file menu, I picked file one and hit play, only to watch it read 22 file indexs and spit me back out to the main menu with the message, CODEC NOT SUPPORTED (QPEL).
Great, the first DivX DVD i insert and it doesn't work. So I sifted through my spool and grabbed, Smallville Season 1, went to its first file and hit play, and it fires right up.
Bottom Line:
Compatibilty (File Type): 9/10
So far, the only things this DVD player hasn't played are my Family Guy and Futurama XviD discs, which I think is because theyre encoded with dual stream audio. I tested 106 DivX/XviD/MPEG-4 discs in it and about 100 of them played. Even my Season 3 of the simpsons which has 5 audio tracks (Eng/Span/Fre/Jap/Commentary).
Setup: 10/10
Take it out of the box, plug it into TV, set to AUX and go, 'Nuff Said.
Menu Nav: 8/10
The display of file names is kind of small, but big enough to get the job done I suppose, no page down esc button makes sifting through DivX discs with many files semi annoying, I can't imagine what sifting through an MP3 disc with 246 tracks and no sub folders would be like.
Remote : 8/10
Lack of a Page Down and the fact that it's about 11-12 inches long takes the 2 points off here.
Compatibilty (Media): 10/10
So far, any kind of media I have thrown at it (DVDR/W +/- CD-R/W) has worked flawlessly, even the cheapest media available goes off without a hitch.
Playback 9/10
I noticed small playback de-syncs after severe FF and RWND use. It usually corrects itself, but one of my episodes of Smallville continually Synced and De-synced throughout playback, just barely, but it was noticable.
Price: 10/10
For a Hardware DivX player, the price is outstanding. It cannot be beaten.
Overall: 8.9/10
If AVAYON can make a slightly smaller remote, fix the small de-sync issue, and give me a frigging page down button, this would be the ultimate DVD player. The fact it is Firmware upgradeable to support future codecs (like *.OGG, *.OGM, or the new MP3 Surround for 5.1) is a big plus, and will hopefully fix CODEC NOT SUPPORTED issues later on. For the companies first piece of hardware, the DXP 1000 does not disappoint, if you're in the market for a new DVD player, and want something that plays those "backup" CDs and DVDs you have sitting in spools and binders, and don't want to pay an arm and a leg, this is the DVD player for you.
First off, I have to say, for the price, this DVD Player is a great bargain compared to other DivX certified DVD players. You can see here ( <--link) that it is the cheapest DVD player of any of them. I ordered mine from www.jr.com and recieved it in 3 days standard ground.
Taking it out of the box, I quickly hooked it up with the rest of my tiny entertainment center (see below) and fired it up. The greeting screen is nothing special, it looks more or less exactly like the opper left hand corner of the players box.
The main reason I bought this DVD player was for my DivX "backups" to free up the tangled mess of cables crossing my room from the TV-Out of my PC to the switchbox on my TV. So I pulled the DVD of DivX files from the top of my spool and popped it in the player. The DVD was Seasons 1 and 2 of Family Guy.
The DVD player quickly recognized it was a DivX DVD and took my to a simple file menu, I picked file one and hit play, only to watch it read 22 file indexs and spit me back out to the main menu with the message, CODEC NOT SUPPORTED (QPEL).
Great, the first DivX DVD i insert and it doesn't work. So I sifted through my spool and grabbed, Smallville Season 1, went to its first file and hit play, and it fires right up.
Bottom Line:
Compatibilty (File Type): 9/10
So far, the only things this DVD player hasn't played are my Family Guy and Futurama XviD discs, which I think is because theyre encoded with dual stream audio. I tested 106 DivX/XviD/MPEG-4 discs in it and about 100 of them played. Even my Season 3 of the simpsons which has 5 audio tracks (Eng/Span/Fre/Jap/Commentary).
Setup: 10/10
Take it out of the box, plug it into TV, set to AUX and go, 'Nuff Said.
Menu Nav: 8/10
The display of file names is kind of small, but big enough to get the job done I suppose, no page down esc button makes sifting through DivX discs with many files semi annoying, I can't imagine what sifting through an MP3 disc with 246 tracks and no sub folders would be like.
Remote : 8/10
Lack of a Page Down and the fact that it's about 11-12 inches long takes the 2 points off here.
Compatibilty (Media): 10/10
So far, any kind of media I have thrown at it (DVDR/W +/- CD-R/W) has worked flawlessly, even the cheapest media available goes off without a hitch.
Playback 9/10
I noticed small playback de-syncs after severe FF and RWND use. It usually corrects itself, but one of my episodes of Smallville continually Synced and De-synced throughout playback, just barely, but it was noticable.
Price: 10/10
For a Hardware DivX player, the price is outstanding. It cannot be beaten.
Overall: 8.9/10
If AVAYON can make a slightly smaller remote, fix the small de-sync issue, and give me a frigging page down button, this would be the ultimate DVD player. The fact it is Firmware upgradeable to support future codecs (like *.OGG, *.OGM, or the new MP3 Surround for 5.1) is a big plus, and will hopefully fix CODEC NOT SUPPORTED issues later on. For the companies first piece of hardware, the DXP 1000 does not disappoint, if you're in the market for a new DVD player, and want something that plays those "backup" CDs and DVDs you have sitting in spools and binders, and don't want to pay an arm and a leg, this is the DVD player for you.
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