Re: DVD Players

["Simon Coates" <ecolume@xxxxxxx>]

Clive,

Dabs are out of stock.  I managed to get one, received it today! :o)&n= bsp; They
had 1000 in stock the other day, which ran out after about 24 hours.  = I'm
sure they'll get them in again, but you could always try Asda - they were selling them for about =A365 a while ago.  The player is an Apex AD110= 0WB -
and what makes it worth getting is that it can handle just about anything you put in it - DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD, SVCD, CD, CD-R, CD-RW, MP3, JPEG and Kodak PhotoCD.  The player is of low build quality (toaster-like e= ject!)
but for the money it is excellent.  It even comes with a scart lead an= d
video and audio phonos and the remote quite nice also.  The player has= RGB
and composite via scart, dual video phono out, audio phono out and s-video<= BR> out - and it even has digital coaxial out for DD and DTS.
The picture quality isn't fantastic, but it's not that bad - however the best video output is on composite!!!  The RGB output is very soft and<= BR> s-video is too colourful and very grainy.

As if this wasn't enough for a =A350+VAT (+Dabs =A33 P&P) player, someo= ne in the
US has hacked the firmware for this player and it's freely available on the=
net.  The upgraded firmware makes the player multiregion and also canc= els
macrovision and RCE.  You can even get some software to save your own = splash
screen for the player.

This player is also well supported on forums.
Look at:
http://apex.phormation.com/
http://www.nerd-out.com/forum/  and choose AD1100WB

Also, because of how the player is constructed it would be easy to take
apart and make a built-in player etc...

Hope you manage to get one.

Regards

Simon


----- Original Message -----
From: Clive Chapman <clivechapman@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: 17 December 2002 16:29
Subject: [ukha_d] DVD Players


The other day someone posted a great deal about DVD player from www.dabs.co= m
for around =A350.00 or so.

It was multi-region plus lots of extras....

I've just looked at the dabs site but it looks as though the offer has gone= .

Does any one know of any other good offers at the moment ?

Clive



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