New DVD Player!

One of the best things about having a brand new DVD Player -Samsung DVD-HD860- is the pleasing way that technology has moved on in the last 10 years (that's about how old the Wharfdale is) - not least as the new machine is cuteful small compared with the monster I was using before.

I have a couple of disks that I know are damaged; the problem is I couldn't tell how damaged. The Wharfdale would just grind to a halt in a sea of misplaced pixels, but the new Samsung just bounces the scene. Strangely enough, if you wind back, it so far has shown a propensity to play the damaged section quite adequately, so provided it isn't too large a piece of manky DVD, having to pause and start again shouldn't be too onerous.

I haven't tried the DivX playback yet - I had a look and it said something about registering, so I let it be for now. All in all seventy-nine sovs well spent I think. It's a middle price machine but it seems to play every DVD and CD format under the sun (excluding this new fangled Blu-Ray stuff, but since I have none of those, I don't care: too expensive and I have been wary of competing new formats since the ill-fated Betamax fiasco anyway).



Oh, and it has a bookmark facility!

New DVD Player!

One of the best things about having a brand new DVD Player -Samsung DVD-HD860- is the pleasing way that technology has moved on in the last 10 years (that's about how old the Wharfdale is) - not least as the new machine is cuteful small compared with the monster I was using before.

I have a couple of disks that I know are damaged; the problem is I couldn't tell how damaged. The Wharfdale would just grind to a halt in a sea of misplaced pixels, but the new Samsung just bounces the scene. Strangely enough, if you wind back, it so far has shown a propensity to play the damaged section quite adequately, so provided it isn't too large a piece of manky DVD, having to pause and start again shouldn't be too onerous.

I haven't tried the DivX playback yet - I had a look and it said something about registering, so I let it be for now. All in all seventy-nine sovs well spent I think. It's a middle price machine but it seems to play every DVD and CD format under the sun (excluding this new fangled Blu-Ray stuff, but since I have none of those, I don't care: too expensive and I have been wary of competing new formats since the ill-fated Betamax fiasco anyway).



Oh, and it has a bookmark facility!