Keith G wrote:


Well, you can call me a 'gippo' then! - For a Monday morning, the total
absence of the usual 'tireditis' and 'cluelessness' that I have come to
expect from the local TV/hifi shops has made me an instant Lidl fan! (Also,
I ain't too posh to get a 'bargain', if bargain it truly is!)

I'll join the 'gippo' club. I bought 3 of these yesterday. Initially I
bought one as a gift for a friend for Christmas but after a quick test
to check it was all working I bought another two, one to relace my
recently purchased DreamX108 Chinese cheapie and one, well, erm.. for spare!

Incidentally, in my Lidl it all kicked off when a man grabbed the last 5
players and headed to the tills - several words were exchanged and it
looked like it'd come to blows. Seeing as it was Lidl the staff didn't
bat an eyelid :-)

Very best audio I've heard in a long while from a silver disk spinner and
movies are *at least* as good as I've seen on quite a variety of DVDPs.
Colour and sharpness are superb and would not disappoint at several times
the proce - make that 10 (or more) times the price!

Progressive scan from this player is very solid. Unusually for a
cheapie, it doesn't transcode PAL to NTSC and then output 480p or 525p -
it's outputting true 576p. Picture is lush, smooth and has excellent
colour reproduction. Sound from the onboard decoder is very good.


It uses a Sanyo loader and the Zoran chipset is used by a wide variety of
manufacturers like MiCo, Samsung, Toshiba and Arcam - presumably different
versions of the current Vadis chipset. Fascia buttons are of the very
positive, 'clicky' type and pleasant to use. Build quality is entirely par
for the course - at about 3.5 kg it is not quite as 'flyaway' as one might
expect!

The specification is *ludicrous* at this price:
Spec snipped

For 38 quid it's a steal


**Doesn't claim to play -R or +R disks but we've found that it will do so
perfectly with the *exception* of JVC -Rs - it just don't like these! (Not
sure what dye - JVC's own??)

Handles unbranded +r and -R with ease too


Even the zapper is much more stylish than one would expect at this price,

Hmm - the remote's horrid. Like a 1980's Bush portable remote


as
is the generous and well-presented manual which runs to no less than 65
full-size A4 pages! The top half of the player is a 'dead chick' mirror
finish, so here's a couple of no-flash pix for anyone who's interested:

Mine's the black version - at last a black dvd player! I'm sick of the
silver trend!

If you can get one, you may buy with confidence! (Stand on me.....)


Seconded - a proper bargain.


--
Patrick

"I did the grabs via a Duomix61 grabber as used by 'security sources'"
"I never grabbed them on a PC mate -they went via IE56575 to a fancy
technical thingie grabber -or something" - un-named Video capture 'expert'