DVD upscaler with USB and SC slots for €44.99.

Dman001

Aldi are selling a DVD upscaler for €44.99 this Sunday (I think). It comes with a HDMI cable and has a USB and SD card slot too. Also, It upscales to 1080i.

jaykay74

Don't see it on the ALDI website lniked below. Was it in a newpaper pullout or something ?

http://www.aldi.ie/ie/html/offers/offers_week36sunday08.htm?WT.z_src=main.

Do you know if it supports divx/xvid ? Any other details model brand etc ?

Thanks, on the lookout for cheap dvd player that isn't too big, supports upscaling, divx/xvid and usb/Sd card slots. hopefully this will fit the bill.

JK

Dman001

Its made by Tevion and it is out this Sunday. Im not sure about Xvid or DivX. i managed to find the manual for it.
http://www.curtisint.com/html/CustService/Manuals/WOR_DVD1047UKW_EN.PDF

jaykay74

Dman001 wrote: »

Its made by Tevion and it is out this Sunday. Im not sure about Xvid or DivX. i managed to find the manual for it.
http://www.curtisint.com/html/CustService/Manuals/WOR_DVD1047UKW_EN.PDF

Are you sure thats the right manual ? Theres no mention or sign on diagrams of USB/SD slots or HDMI port.

Dman001

Sorry that was the wrong manual, here is the right one:
http://www.curtisint.com/html/CustService/Manuals/CUR_DVD3602UKT_EN.PDF

mrmac

I don't see this mentioned on the Aldi website for this week?

Says Thursday on the site:

http://www.aldi.ie/ie/html/offers/58_6830.htm

lindtee

Does anyone know if this is multi-region or if not does anyone know a code to make it so?

rejkin

So would i be able to connect a Hard drive to the player through the usb? If not does anyone know a dvd player that does that?

johnnyrotten

rejkin wrote: »

So would i be able to connect a Hard drive to the player through the usb? If not does anyone know a dvd player that does that?

Yeah, is this possible?

calex71

read the manual!!!! it mentions divx on page 6 , also mentions connecting flashdrives

edit: should point out if people are getting this to connect to large external hard drives, in my experice many of these kind of devices only like fat 32 formatted hard drives (xbox 360 comes to mind) most of my drives are ntfs fomatted for various reasons, and converting from ntfs to fat 32 just isnt an option really.

USB sticks work quite nicely though, or if your hard drive is fat 32, im not saying that this will be the case with this dvd player but worth keeping in mind if its the sole reason for gettting one

johnnyrotten

Anyone buy this today.

Stokolan

Doubt it seen as it aint in till Thursday

johnnyrotten

Stokolan wrote: »

Doubt it seen as it aint in till Thursday

Jaysus you're on the ball are'nt you

CourierCollie

lindtee wrote: »

Does anyone know if this is multi-region or if not does anyone know a code to make it so?

Anyone any info regarding this? I know its really cheap, but would be pretty useless to me if its locked to region 2.

Dman001

I got this from HotUKDeals but I'm unsure if it will work with this DVD player:

Open Tray
Press 9999
Press 9 for region free
Close Tray.

CourierCollie

Worth a try anyway. We'll find out Thursday. Won't be a total loss anyway. Free HDMI lead and USB connection, sweet.

jaykay74

Thanks OP. Got my dvd player this morning. will try it out this evening when I get home. Looks decent. I'd say they only lasted a few minutes. I was there as the shop opened and there only seemed to be 20 or so in stock. About half were taken immediately.

bcirl03

Also got one.....

A lot of people had them in their shopping trolleys with few left.

Could do with the region free code otherwise I'll be running two DVD players side by side.

TM

None in Aldi Parnell Street Dublin at 9:30 this morning...

pcolan

@ TM

Grabbed one at 11am at Aldi Parnell St. & apparently there were even a few left! Couldn't find any on display, so had to ask at the till!

Thank you very much, OP for this great post!!!

NewApproach

I got one in Ennis around a quarter to three.

None on display so I asked and she brought out another ten or so!

quaalude

I just got one in Rathmines at 4pm - they have several more in stock there.

MacBuster

Has anyone tried USB keys or HDD's on these yet ?

CourierCollie

Got one of these in Nutgrove at 4pm, though I think it was their last. Good news is this worked to make it region free:

Dman001 wrote: »

I got this from HotUKDeals but I'm unsure if it will work with this DVD player:

Open Tray
Press 9999
Press 9 for region free
Close Tray.

Also I've tried a 2GB USB key, an an 8GB MP3 player (both loaded with wma's) and both work fine. I haven't got an external HDD to try out.

NewApproach

No picture with mine:mad:

jaykay74

NewApproach wrote: »

No picture with mine:mad:

Was that with scart or HDMI or different connection ? I tried mine for a few minutes when I was home for lunch. Couldn't get anything through HDMI. Haven't used HDMI before though so will make better effort this evening. I tried to search for new devices with TV but no luck even though the player was connected via hmdi cable supplied and turned on.

quaalude

jaykay74 wrote: »

Was that with scart or HDMI or different connection ? I tried mine for a few minutes when I was home for lunch. Couldn't get anything through HDMI. Haven't used HDMI before though so will make better effort this evening. I tried to search for new devices with TV but no luck even though the player was connected via hmdi cable supplied and turned on.

This happened to me too - I sorted it out like this:

Connect the DVD player first to your TV with a scart lead, so you can get to the setup option on the DVD player.
Press Setup on the remote
Use the arrow buttons on the remote to go to "Video"
Then go to "Video Out settings", and change this to "HD".

johnnyrotten

Yeah had to set mine up with scart too then changed output to HD and 1080i . Can't get usb Working though. Plenty left in coolock at 4.30

quaalude

Dman001 wrote: »

I got this from HotUKDeals but I'm unsure if it will work with this DVD player:

Open Tray
Press 9999
Press 9 for region free
Close Tray.

This works great, thanks, but it took me a few gos - I suggest leaving 2 seconds before the final "9" - you know it works as a "9" comes up on the screen.

johnnyrotten

Anyone got problems with USB? When I press USB/CARD I get a message "Not Allowed"

CourierCollie

Did you take the dvd out first?
Just checked mine again, and I'm only getting the 'not allowed' message when a dvd is playing. It wasn't necessary to remove the disk from the tray.

markyboy

quaalude wrote: »

This happened to me too - I sorted it out like this:

Connect the DVD player first to your TV with a scart lead, so you can get to the setup option on the DVD player.
Press Setup on the remote
Use the arrow buttons on the remote to go to "Video"
Then go to "Video Out settings", and change this to "HD".

Thanks for this bit of advice!

Got USB working as well (you have to press the down arrow to switch between DVD and USB/SD) and it's reading stuff off a WD external drive no problem.

jaykay74

Dman001 wrote: »

I got this from HotUKDeals but I'm unsure if it will work with this DVD player:

Open Tray
Press 9999
Press 9 for region free
Close Tray.

quaalude wrote: »

This happened to me too - I sorted it out like this:

Connect the DVD player first to your TV with a scart lead, so you can get to the setup option on the DVD player.
Press Setup on the remote
Use the arrow buttons on the remote to go to "Video"
Then go to "Video Out settings", and change this to "HD".

quaalude wrote: »

This works great, thanks, but it took me a few gos - I suggest leaving 2 seconds before the final "9" - you know it works as a "9" comes up on the screen.

CourierCollie wrote: »

Did you take the dvd out first?
Just checked mine again, and I'm only getting the 'not allowed' message when a dvd is playing. It wasn't necessary to remove the disk from the tray.

Great Tech support lads :pac::pac::pac: Got everything working. Great bargain all round. Was looking at dvd player in Hardly Normal next door to aldi and they had one for 99 euro which didn't have all the features this one has.

johnnyrotten

markyboy wrote: »

Thanks for this bit of advice!

Got USB working as well (you have to press the down arrow to switch between DVD and USB/SD) and it's reading stuff off a WD external drive no problem.

Will it Play Avi files?
Pity HDMI cable is so short

quaalude

johnnyrotten wrote: »

Will it Play Avi files?

Yeah, it does play AVI's.

CourierCollie

johnnyrotten wrote: »

Pity HDMI cable is so short

True, but I was glad to have one included, rather than another scart cable. There more of those lying around the house than you could shake a stick at!

johnnyrotten

CourierCollie wrote: »

True, but I was glad to have one included, rather than another scart cable. There more of those lying around the house than you could shake a stick at!

Yeah I have a snakes nest of Scarts too:D
Can't wait to try my Harddrive out on it

zuroph

gonna try in morning in limerick........hope i didnt miss this.

TM

pcolan wrote: »

@ TM

Grabbed one at 11am at Aldi Parnell St. & apparently there were even a few left! Couldn't find any on display, so had to ask at the till!

Thank you very much, OP for this great post!!!

Doh! Guess I should have asked. Maybe they'll have one left tomorrow...

johnnyrotten

Could't open the drawer on mine this morning.!!
Brought it back and they changed it no problems
Still 3 or 4 left in Aldi Coolock at 9.45am

TM

TM wrote: »

Doh! Guess I should have asked. Maybe they'll have one left tomorrow...

None left this morning...

johnnyrotten

Got the new one up and running.
Can't get HD output now . Message on screen says " Check cable"
Got External HD working. playing AVI's well. One problem is that when i go into a directory it appears empty.???

Davei141

Think you have to enable it by using the scart first and turning some option on. Happened to me also

adox

All gone in Coolock, tried them about an hour ago.:(

zuroph

got the last one in limerick, turns out i knew the manager! tryin to get hd working now.

zuroph

got it working, got 500gb lacie HD running with it too! only thing was the settings seemed to change back to svideo from HD at one stage. will play more with it.

bcirl03

Dman001 wrote: »

I got this from HotUKDeals but I'm unsure if it will work with this DVD player:

Open Tray
Press 9999
Press 9 for region free
Close Tray.

Thanks Dman001 - installed and region free

Picture looks brill going via HDMI.

zuroph

+1 hdmi is awesome!!! Best bargain alert yet!

getoffthepot

Got one this morning. Still 10 of them in Long Mile rd, Dublin.
Chhers for the reviews. Looks great , got it setup on my 42".

johnnyrotten

zuroph wrote: »

got it working, got 500gb lacie HD running with it too! only thing was the settings seemed to change back to svideo from HD at one stage. will play more with it.

Have my external HD working through it.
If say I open folder called VIDEOS I can open any file there no problem.But If theres a sub-folder it appears empty.
Any Ideas?:(