Best DVD player iwth USB

[venkatcr]

What has me really pissed is Samsung's attitude... it's now been several days, and I've not heard from Samsung support about it (except promises over the phone). My player is completely dead, and doesn't even switch on. If this goes on, I'll take this up strongly with Samsung. Just because it's a cheap (sic) product doesn't mean that they can take me for a ride.

Hell hath no fury like a budget buyer spurned!

Why don't you just take it back to the shop and demand a replacement that you can test there in the shop itself?

I can understand your fury. A long time ago I had purchased some modem that did not work. My calls, and the service visits were all use less. Finally I took it back to the dealer who told me he cannot do anything as he was just a dealer. My poor admin guy who came with me was literally pissing in his pants, as he was the one who had purchased the modem. I barged into the dealer's MD's office, and smashed the modem on his desk till it went into small pieces.The guy went out of business later.

You have the legal support of the consumer forum, and make the dealer pay dearly.

Cheers

 

[anm]

wow! you broke the desk into pieces with the modem!!!
j/k

Why don't you just take it back to the shop and demand a replacement that you can test there in the shop itself?

I can understand your fury. A long time ago I had purchased some modem that did not work. My calls, and the service visits were all use less. Finally I took it back to the dealer who told me he cannot do anything as he was just a dealer. My poor admin guy who came with me was literally pissing in his pants, as he was the one who had purchased the modem. I barged into the dealer's MD's office, and smashed the modem on his desk till it went into small pieces.The guy went out of business later.

You have the legal support of the consumer forum, and make the dealer pay dearly.

Cheers

 

[venkatcr]

wow! you broke the desk into pieces with the modem!!!
j/k

Sorry.

The line 'I barged into the dealer's MD's office, and smashed the modem on his desk till it went into small pieces.The guy went out of business later.'

should read

I barged into the dealer's MD's office, and smashed the modem on his desk till the modem went into small pieces.The guy went out of business later.

Cheers

 

[Dushie]

Well best is to take the unit to the shop you bought it from, tell him to exchange for a new one or give a refund, don't accept anything else ...

 

[dirtyBlueJeans]

Yes, I think that's what I'll do tomorrow. I've waited for several days without hearing from Samsung, and my patience is running thin. Lets see what happens at the shop tomorrow.

 

[illusion]

Yes, I think that's what I'll do tomorrow. I've waited for several days without hearing from Samsung, and my patience is running thin. Lets see what happens at the shop tomorrow.

I totally understand boss. But keep the faith . Hey was that a Samsung Showroom ?

 

[kaverao]

I just tried playing a couple of movies from my collection of DVDs using LG388. Disappointed with its performance, as i see a blurred and jagged picture and very noicy Mono sound. (TV= 32"LG80UR, using HDMI cable , resolution 1080p)
My Desktop PC plays those DVDs with a far batter quality. Of course the DVDs are of thetre print (bought at the footpaths ;-) for Rs.50 each, having 3 moview in single DVD!!!) but still I am wondering how my PC (P4 PC, 1GB RAM, 17" Samsung TFT monitor, using LG powerDVD software) is able to play it better?.
Just wondering if i lack any settings in TV/ DVD player. Or is it natural that the PC plays a better than a commercial DVD player - out of thetre printed DVD?
However, I have NOT tried the same DVDs with any other DVD player, just comparing with PC.
Any inputs pls welcome. Thanks in advance.

 

[venkatcr]

I just tried playing a couple of movies from my collection of DVDs using LG388. Disappointed with its performance, as i see a blurred and jagged picture and very noicy Mono sound. (TV= 32"LG80UR, using HDMI cable , resolution 1080p)
My Desktop PC plays those DVDs with a far batter quality. Of course the DVDs are of thetre print (bought at the footpaths ;-) for Rs.50 each, having 3 moview in single DVD!!!) but still I am wondering how my PC (P4 PC, 1GB RAM, 17" Samsung TFT monitor, using LG powerDVD software) is able to play it better?.

The reason is very simple. Your LG cum TV combination is simply enhancing the bad quality to a larger screen as compared to the PC.

In the PC if you play a video in small size, it will look good. At the same time, if you drag the corners and make the screen bigger (or double click to make it full screen) the picture quality will deteriorate.

If there is more than one movie in a DVD, then the compression methodology is different (such as DIVX) and there will further losses in data. When you upscale this to 1080p, you are upscaling a bad source. In addition these street copies will have been copied using inferior equipment and would lead to further loss of data.

Play a regular single movie DVD that your purchased from a reputed shop shrink wrapped. If that plays well, there is nothing wrong with your system. The media that you are playing is bad quality. I keep multiple such DVDs as reference DVDs to test my system regularly.

The only tweaking you can do is to set the upscaling off or set it to 480p. That may improve the picture a bit. But I am not sure that will have any effect on the sound. The sound is just bad recording, particularly when you watching a camera print.

Cheers

 

[illusion]

I just tried playing a couple of movies from my collection of DVDs using LG388. Disappointed with its performance, as i see a blurred and jagged picture and very noicy Mono sound. (TV= 32"LG80UR, using HDMI cable , resolution 1080p)
My Desktop PC plays those DVDs with a far batter quality. Of course the DVDs are of thetre print (bought at the footpaths ;-) for Rs.50 each, having 3 moview in single DVD!!!) but still I am wondering how my PC (P4 PC, 1GB RAM, 17" Samsung TFT monitor, using LG powerDVD software) is able to play it better?.
Just wondering if i lack any settings in TV/ DVD player. Or is it natural that the PC plays a better than a commercial DVD player - out of thetre printed DVD?
However, I have NOT tried the same DVDs with any other DVD player, just comparing with PC.
Any inputs pls welcome. Thanks in advance.

Kaverao, I am lot promoting LG here but I think the movie quality you played has been really bad. I have watched till date nearly 50-60 movies on my LG DV and all of them are 700mb DVD rips and the quality is awesome !
What distance are you from your TV ? If I stand at around 3 feet away the blotches are visible. However for me as I view a good 6 feet away from my 26 inch lcd the quality is really good but again that is my personal opinion.

Totallt agree with Venkat sir here. please playback some good quality content and I am 100% sure you will not be disappointed. Even better if you can get hold of your friends HDMI dvd player ( any brand) then do a test comparison and let me know the results.

 

[spirovious]

Hello all,
I am a regular visitor to HiFiVision and this is my first post.

I have Philips TV 42PFL7762D & Onkyo HT-S990 THX HTIB.
I am looking for a good DVD player with USB & HDMI upscalling.
I have short listed the SAMSUNG DVD-1080PK and Philips DVDR5570H the main attraction is its ability to upscale regular set top box output to 1080i. Philips also has 250GB HDD and recording capability (not a high priority).

I had a look at LG-DV-388 but not very impressed at the looks & upscalling perfomance.

Philips player doesnt have optical out. Would there be significant difference between optical out and coaxial output ? Please advice.

John

Hi,
You are right,but connection to settop box is not regular but scart?

 

[anm]

I believed philips is better, so I spent INR 4590 and purchased 5996k from Noida Home Town. Hooked it up to by PT-AX 200U through HDMI. I am not yet noticing any better quality than component. I tried upscaling but didn't notice any improvement. However, subtitles were screwed at white text seemed surround by yellow aura.
Need to experiment more.
Burning CD to mp3 directly was one feature I really looked forward to - but disappointed by the fact that I would only do it upto 192kbps, instead of 320 that I normally do. So my laptop is not yet eliminated from the picture.

But earlier problem of 5886 of jerky video/ audio on USB seems to have gone away with this new player.
Opinions at home - Another 5k of money thrown away when there were already so many DVD players in house

 

[echo77]

I just tried playing a couple of movies from my collection of DVDs using LG388. Disappointed with its performance, as i see a blurred and jagged picture and very noicy Mono sound. (TV= 32"LG80UR, using HDMI cable , resolution 1080p)
My Desktop PC plays those DVDs with a far batter quality. Of course the DVDs are of thetre print (bought at the footpaths ;-) for Rs.50 each, having 3 moview in single DVD!!!) but still I am wondering how my PC (P4 PC, 1GB RAM, 17" Samsung TFT monitor, using LG powerDVD software) is able to play it better?.
Just wondering if i lack any settings in TV/ DVD player. Or is it natural that the PC plays a better than a commercial DVD player - out of thetre printed DVD?
However, I have NOT tried the same DVDs with any other DVD player, just comparing with PC.
Any inputs pls welcome. Thanks in advance.

PC software renders videos and games much better because you have a much powerful processor, memory etc.

I have a number of such compressed DVDs - 3-in-1, 4-in-1, heck I even have a crazy 16-in-1. The only way I can view the 16-in-1 is by using a very small window on my 12" laptop screen like Youtube size. Even the 3-in-1s don't look good on 12" fullscreen. It will look worse as the screen size increases. Displaying poor quality video on a 17" LCD will show you much much better picture than a 32" LCD. If you watch those movies on my 12", then you will think it is superb quality and start questioning the 17"

In layman terms, there is a reason DVD size is big because it is MPEG without DivX type of compression. A 1.4GB DivX can be equivalent to a 4GB DVD (sometimes good 700MB rips are also good, like those of aXXo), but a 1.4GB DVD file in a 3-movies-in-1 DVD will be 1/3rd the size/quality of a DVD movie, correspondingly rendering it to be 1/2 or 1/3rd the quality of a DivX of similar size. Furthermore, if it is a screencam, then it gets worse.

 

[echo77]

I believed philips is better, so I spent INR 4590 and purchased 5996k from Noida Home Town. Hooked it up to by PT-AX 200U through HDMI. I am not yet noticing any better quality than component. I tried upscaling but didn't notice any improvement. However, subtitles were screwed at white text seemed surround by yellow aura.
Need to experiment more.
Burning CD to mp3 directly was one feature I really looked forward to - but disappointed by the fact that I would only do it upto 192kbps, instead of 320 that I normally do. So my laptop is not yet eliminated from the picture.

But earlier problem of 5886 of jerky video/ audio on USB seems to have gone away with this new player.
Opinions at home - Another 5k of money thrown away when there were already so many DVD players in house

Actually, I am now wondering whether to go for a DivX player at all. The main reason I got a new TV was my kid was hogging either the main TV that my parents watch or Desktop to play games. Now that I am going to get a TS connection for the new TV, I can always send the kid to watch TV and I can work or watch a movie on the desktop (19" LCD with Creative 5.1 SBS)

 

[kaverao]

Yes, i completely agree with Venkat sir . Also agree that the source DVD i have is of very bad quality. I really did not notice it when i watched on 17" monitor (even on full screen), realized that the player upscales the noice too.
Anyway, thanks for info. This thread is turning out very interesting, with almosy any info a DVD player buyers want!. hats off !!!.

Also thanks Echo77 and illusion for very informative replies. No more questions on quality of LG

Cheers,
Rao.

 

[illusion]

Yes, i completely agree with Venkat sir . Also agree that the source DVD i have is of very bad quality. I really did not notice it when i watched on 17" monitor (even on full screen), realized that the player upscales the noice too.
Anyway, thanks for info. This thread is turning out very interesting, with almosy any info a DVD player buyers want!. hats off !!!.

Also thanks Echo77 and illusion for very informative replies. No more questions on quality of LG

Cheers,
Rao.

Ha Ha but reliability is still a question. I guess only time will tell for that as not many people on this forum have an old lg as their dvd player !

 

[bhuvanmisra]

btw, did you know that LG = Lucky GoldStar ?

 

[illusion]

btw, did you know that LG = Lucky GoldStar ?

Are you serious ?

 

[dichkaun]

Are you serious ?

LG Group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[echo77]

Are you serious ?

If you are as ooold as me, you'd remember GoldStar TVs

 

[moserw]

LG Group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thanks for sharing. Was not aware of it.