![]() With such a unit, you will be able to play VCDs, DVDs, HD DVDs and hopefully Divx CDs.įor this reason, you may like to consider waiting until those HD DVD players get out, unless of course you need a DVD player now.ĭivx seems like a grey area and if you decide to purchase a Divx compatible DVD player, I would strongly advise you to do what others have mentioned: burn a few CDs with Divx files (for instance, your favourite movies, those you would really like to watch on your TV or monitor screen) and go to the shop with them to test on your selected model before purchase. You can also expect that when HD DVD players get released, there will be some models with Divx compatibility. However, current DVD players won't be able to play new HD DVDs when they are out. HD DVD players should be able to play new HD DVD discs as well as 'old' (current) DVD discs. I'd just like to remind you that there is a new format around the corner, named HD DVD (High Definition DVD), and the first units are scheduled to be commercially launched at the end of the year / beginning of next year. I'd maybe compare Pioneer with Pentax as a brand, maybe not the absolute best but always good value for money. Hello guys I was wondering wich was the best player to buy I want those feature (Region free). If you have a look on the internet you will find that Pioneer DVD players have a very high customer satisfaction rating which was one reason l decided to buy one. There was a review in The Nation recently that said it was a pretty good player. If you don't need the Karaoke option then l think there is a slightly cheaper (less 500baht?) model available that does everything the 585K-s does. It's a good value unit, made in Thailand so it sells for half the price that an nearly identical spec. It also displays photo cd's made on my computer very clearly. So far l have played original Australian, Thai and American dvd's as well as pirated Thai dvd's, all played perfectly including a couple that l had never been able to get working on other machines and computers before, no adjusting regional settings required. I can't tell you for sure if it will play what you get from p2p networks but l suspect it will. ![]() Circuit City shares closed Tuesday at $87.44, dropping from $91.25 on Thursday, the day after the announcement.Yeti, l have the Pioneer DV-585K-s model DVD player, bought it a month or so ago, the day it came out virtually. Investors, nevertheless, seemed indifferent to last Wednesday's decision to ash-can Divx. If I want to watch them on a normal TV, do I just buy and DivX DVD player Do they all play avi files Thanks in advance. "The consumer may be the loser in all of this."Ĭircuit City spent more than $200 million developing the technology and reported an $88.2 million loss for the first quarter ended May 21. I have several US series on DVD as avi files to watch on my PC. ![]() "I guess the message from Betamax and VHS was you don't necessarily need the best product, but you've got to have the best marketing," Thomson said. Thomson said that, although he owns a Divx player and likes it "an awful lot," it was time for the division to go. "I think they came up against some brick walls in the form of recalcitrant movie studios and retailers," said Tom Thomson, an analyst with First Union Capital Markets in Richmond, Va. ![]() Warner, the country's second-largest cable company, had said it was waiting for the development of cable video on demand. Sony Corp.'s Sony Pictures and Time Warner's Warner Home Video refused to put their movies on Divx discs, and video stores refused to carry them, most likely because profit margins are higher for videocassettes. "I'm so used to it with videotapes, having to return it doesn't really make a difference," he said.ĭivx, launched nationwide last November, also faced resistance from retailers, such as Best Buy, which refused to buy a product from their competitor.Īs a result, Divx players were carried almost exclusively at Circuit City's 595 stores nationwide, with help from a few regional chains, such as Good Guys on the West Coast. Glass, whose family owned a Betamax when he was younger, noted that several area stores rent DVDs. "I think it was just the whole thing about how you could only play it once and having to dial up and activate it," said 27-year-old Glass, browsing through DVDs at a Best Buy store in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood. To Richard Glass, it just seemed like a pain. Privacy-conscious consumers were offended by the notion of a modem transmitting information about what they watch to a billing service, and several Web sites sprang up aimed at warning consumers about Divx disadvantages.
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