Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Home DVD divx players

I've recently been looking around for a combo vcr/dvd divx player
I was looking for the Zenith ZDV-512 which they normally have at futureshop but are currently on backorder.
I have one of these zdv-512 already and found it to be very good, with long filename support unlike the philips 642 which i also have.
The zdv-512 is also around $90 before tax which makes it the cheapest combo with divx...the closest was an LG combo for aroound $119 which I might have to get.

Unfortunately I require a combo and not just the dvd player. If it were only the divx player then I would have probably bought the yahoo divx player from walmart for around $49, Looks somewhat cool and gets decent reviews for the price
http://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers.php?DVDnameid=5743&Search=Search&#comments
a friend has this and says it plays divx and xvids ok. I saw it got %30 something percent in a video play test.

Walmart also have the trusty philips 642 for $70 which is a bargin.
mpeg4 certainly is mainstream now, however I suspect most people don't even use the divx side or just buy the cheapest standalone non divx dvd players.

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