Maplins DVD/DiVX player €83

din0saur

Eltax DV-300 DVD/DiVX-Player
• Plays DivX 5, DivX 4 and DivX 3 (in compliance with DivX certified technical requirements )
• Official DivX certified™ product
• DVD±R/W, CD-R/W, MP3, jpeg playback
• Progressive scan
• 5.1 audio output
• Digital out (coaxial / optical)
• Multi region

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=-10811&TabID=1&C=SEO&U=StaticPages

Orion

Does anyone know if this will play XVid as well?

Mr E

According to the full specs, yes....

Frequency range +/- 1 dB 4-20KHz (CD), 4-44KHz (DVD)
Distortion 0,002%
Signal / noise ratio 98dB Audio, 65dB Video
Surround formats Dolby Digital (AC-3), DTS
Digital stream audio out Dolby Digital, DTS, MPEG, PCM
Audio Languages (soundtracks) Up to 8 languages
D/A converter 27MHz/10 bit sampling video / 96KHz/24 bit sampling audio
Horizontal lines More than 500
Line doubling Progressive scan
Screen formats PanScan, LetterBox, 16:9
Colour formats PAL, NTSC, AUTO
Disc Formats (play back) DVD, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, CD, VCD, SVCD, CD-R, CDRW, HDCD, Photo-CD
File formats (playback) MP3,JPEG,WMA,MPG,XivD,DivX,3.11,4xx,5.xx
Fast forward/reverse speeds 2x, 4x, 8x, 16x, 32x
Slow motion fwd/rev speeds 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16

(as long as XivD is a spelling mistake!)

din0saur

"The unit has played several DivX fine, the XviD playback seemed less fluid (frame rate) but I only had one file available to test. I played about a dozen raw MPEGs, only one file of dubious origins played badly. VCD & DVD standard raw MPEGs seem to play perfectly."

http://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers.php?DVDnameid=5428&Search=Search&

RicardoSmith

Looks ok. I wonder what the quality is like?