"Max Headroom" wrote in message
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"Max Headroom" wrote in message
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Hi,

The Cambridge Audio DVD89 player can play MP3 music, by
first unlocking the
machine via the remote. Seems that the MP3 decoder
initially is locked,
depending the country in which the system will be sold.

Does anybody know more hidden of undocumented features
for
this device or
other Cambridge Audio gear?

Thnx,

Max H.



The question I would really like answered is "Why would
they
bother to disable it to start with and why hide it?"
Any
cheap Chinese player will play DVD and MP3.

BTW I have had Pioneer DV686 for over a year that is a
multi
player (SACD/DVD-A/MP3/WMA etc, etc) and nothing was
hidden
on that.

But having owned a CA Azur 640H music server for a while
I
would imagine that it is more a case of CA's poor
software
implementation, the owner's manual being sketchy and
poorly
written and just a screw up from day one ;-)

Cheers TT

So bad software is a good sign, the engineers concentrated
themselves full
on the audio section.

Can you recommend the 640H , or ... ?

Max H.

No! After 9 months of being plagued with software issues,
quirky attributes and a CA Tech Support (actually Tech
apologists) the dealer refunded my money. Very decent of
him I thought but then he had already gotten back several
other units and his demo was also similarly afflicted.

BTW we are talking about a so called high end manufacturer
here that told me I was being picky because the left and
right channels were swapped and I was only the third person
in the World to notice it!

IMHO the idea was quite good, the music quality was very
good BUT the implementation and the choice of Windows CE as
an operating system was disastrous.

Should I mention it actually boasted it did MP3/WMA etc. ;-)

Cheers TT