Progressive Scan MP4 HDTV DVD Player

[ovg64]

http://www.labdv.com/


WMV, MPEG-4 and DivX in your set-top DVD player? [15-Mar-2003]: China started to manufacture MPEG-4 DVD players and this is a strong signal that Video formats for PC are coming to Home Theatre... This transition won't be so easy for the users we are, because DVD set-top players aren't used to software updates and PC formats are very demanding with updates. labDV will help to follow on this new challenge which is part of the Internet-TV-PC convergence challenge set by the Electronics Industry. The brand new DVD-880 from A-Zone International Co Ltd (11F-1, No. 8, Lane 473, Kwang-Fu South Road, Taipei, Taiwan, azone@ms29.hinet.net) is shipped to Eastern Europe, North America and Asia with the following features:

* Progressive scan MP4 HDTV DVD player
* Dolby Digital 5.1 output, DTS digital out and 3D virtual surround
* Compatible with MPEG, MP3, MP4, Windows Media, audio, and JPEG picture CD media formats
* 96kHz/24-bit stereo audio DAC
* 10-bit video D/A converter
* Video output: progressive scan; supports 480p/720p/1080i HDTV, NTSC/PAL (or PAL-M for Brazil) composite and S-video, YpbPr
* Selectable screen aspect ratio (4:3 and 16:9) VFD display
* DVI, component (YUV), S-video, and A/V output
* Full scart output and RGB on scart connector
* Built-in headphone output with volume control
* 32 languages of subtitle and eight tracks of dialogues
* Multi-angle disc supported

[JoZ]

No, uh! I don't believe anybody! Only one test works for me. Grabbing few
different format divx cds and playing them before buying the player. I was
trying three players that "are playing" divx.

After that... it's much more chiper to buy a slim pc with dvd-rom and
exchange it with your present dvd player. In that way you can play
anything from noncompressed to the latest xvid.

[kwag]

I think that DivX players are not likely to grab a good market place, because of the dynamics of MPEG-4. It's a moving target , and anyone who buys a DivX standalone DVD player, is going to have to be downloading firmware updates to compensate for the "monthly" updates on CODECS. One more reason to use KVCDs

-kwag

[CheronAph]

Also KiSS DVD Player DP-450 plays divx!

[ovg64]

Well guys, I Know Divx video is not very stable yet and Players with Divx playback may or may not sell well, But somebody out there sims to that the Divx community is growing and that is worth selling a player with this other flavor of video format. For me kvcd its just dandy the money Im saving backing up DVDs