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Apex DVD Players from Dabs..


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  • Subject: Apex DVD Players from Dabs..
  • From: "Ian Lowe" <ian@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 12:20:35 -0000
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Well, ours arrived this morning, and I am *vastly* unimpressed.

The picture quality is diabolical. So bad, in fact that I am wondering if we
have a duffer of a unit.
Whats the experience here?  I tried two films quickly, Evolution and LOTR.

On Evolution, the opening sequence is fuzzy as hell, and all of the text is
badly ghosted. on Composite, it's fuzzy, with a single ghost. On S-video,
it's fuzzier still, with a multitude of ghosting. Any vertical edge is
ghosted a couple of times.

With LOTR, the video is a little better on composite, but still VHS quality
rather than DVD. the S-video quality is again  a little better, but still
way below the quality I get from a Holywood+ PC-DVD Card.

After our great experience with going from a PC solution (showhifter) to
TiVo, it's kinda dissapointing.

What about the other people who got these? hows the quality on S-video? do I
have a duff unit, or is this simply a crapola bargain basement player?


I.


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