DVD player with DivX and XVid support

Oriel

Folks,
I'm posting this in the Computers fourm since:
a) More people will be able to help me here due to the knowledge of DivX and Xvid.
b) More people will see it here.

Simple really - can anybody recommend me a decent DVD player with DivX and XVid (CD format) playback? It's turning out to be quite a difficult thing to google due to the amount of crap out there on this interweb thingy.

Cheers!
Steve.

RicardoSmith

I'm using a Philips 5100 slot loader. (€90 Power City) Its ok. Most people seem to recomment the KISS or LG models. The Philips is so so. Doesn't support long filenames, which is a pain and I've had some problems with it not ejecting disks and not loading disks. It eventually reads everything, DVD/DivX I've tried, you just have to turn it on/off to get it to see the disk sometimes. Perhaps I've a faulty unit. I suspect theres a problem with the slot loading mechanisim myself. I intend to return it once I find the reciept.

Oriel

Thanks RicardoSmith! Also, after googling a certain DVD player, I came across this.

S.

RicardoSmith

Personally I prefer using a computer to watch DivX you've more control. Perhaps a Media Center PC would be better.

Oriel

RicardoSmith wrote:

Perhaps a Media Center PC would be better.

Nope! I'm going Mac in January :-)

MrJoeSoap

http://www.powercity.ie/test.asp?par=10-19-P5100

This one has DivX, don't think it has Xvid though.

MR DAZ

I bought one from pixmainia which has both DVD and XVID\DIVX playback

only €48 and only €13 to ship it.



Cant really go wrong with that.

http://www.pixmania.com/ie/uk/78288/art/h-b/dvd-divx-player-dx-3255.html

Khannie

www.marx-computers.com sell one for around 69 euro.

Oriel

At the moment, I'm leaning towards this one.

RicardoSmith

sinecurea wrote:

At the moment, I'm leaning towards this one.

Looks interesting.