Standalone divx player?
 

I was just wondering if any of you had one of these and could give me some advice as to which one I should buy. Which is the best iyho and which is the best for the price? I have read reviews of a few and they are either too expensive or cheap and break quickly according to the customer reviews.

thanks!

B

My son bought an inexpensive DVD standalone that also supported divx. It is made by Phillips and was $60.00 USD 2 years ago. It certainly hasn't broken or given any trouble - on the other hand it doesn't have the best picture quality either. But it plays almost anything and was cheap.

Kathleen

I was thinking about getting a divx player too actually. Does anyone know if they play normal dvd's as well? What is a reasonable price to pay?

I haven't seen ones that simply play DivX Kev, they tend to be DVD players and under the list of formats supported is DivX. They are becoming more common now, you can get them for £40, though obviously the picture quality wouldn't be brilliant for that.

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Brillaint thanks Neil. I definately need one. I need to get Freeview also for my room but thats another story! LOL> Yeah I think I would have to get one which plays absolutely everything, otherwise there is just no point. Maybe I should just wait until Blue-Ray is out, then Blue-Ray players should play even more formats!

Have any of you purchased one of these? I am currently thinking of getting the APEX AD-1250X which is only available through APEX. The only reason I am thinking of it is because the best DVD player I have ever owned has been a cheapo-Apex that was 100 bucks when top-end players were still 350 and 450. It can do everything and hasn't broken. But from the reviews at videohelp.com, it doesn't seem like it is so good of a player. Anybody got an opinion? I need good pic quality and compatability as well as sound. And region 0 settings would be nice too, but I jut can't seem to find one with all of these things.

Also, as I am currently in The States, Freeview is irrelevant.

thanks!

B

Don't rush out to buy anything either Blu-ray or HDDVD though Kev because it will likely be that neither suceeds. DVD is still a very popular format and has only really started taking over from VHS recently so don't expect everyone to suddenly accept a new format.

Chances are that something like holographic discs will be used instead anyway, or maybe something that hasn't even been invented yet. As far as I know Blu-ray holds around 50gb of information, but the holographic discs currently being tested are (I think) 8 layers and can hold 200gb.

Yeah, I actually read a news report on the internet somewhere which said that they are looking into blu-ray disks that actually hold upto 1.5TB!!! Thats just a bit whacky. I cant even imagine anything that would hold that much data. One disk would do you for life hehehe.

Not blu-ray Kev, they are only 50gb, the higher capacity discs are the holographic ones I mentioned, and they can actually hold up to 3.9TB, with a transfer rate of 100GBits. The higher capacity ones are still expermental, but 200GB ones should be on release by summer.

For the purpose of films and such these high capacity discs would be amazing, movies could be stored completely uncompressed in high quality for HDTV with uncompressed surround sound, and never again would another disc be required for the bonus features, of which there could be a lot more than on a DVD.

I think that blu-ray and HDDVD will die out by the end of next year and that these HVDs will start to take over, but it will probably be another couple of years before the 1TB+ discs are widely available, and a couple more before they start replacing DVD as the standard for movies and data backup and such.