Good analogue DVD players
Re: Good analogue DVD players
The PS2 can also play DVDs, if you have one of those.
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Drunk_Caterpillar
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If you can find an Oppo, I believe those were considered close to a gold standard. Good luck finding one for cheap though...
Re: Good analogue DVD players
the difference in video output quality between a cheap and a high-end DVD player is considerably less compared to - let's say - an entry level and a high-end laserdisc player. There are still factors to consider though. The MPEG decoder chip can cause problems with the chroma upsampling (present on A LOT of player) and there are certainly nice to have features like MPEG or block noise compression.
If you're aiming at a PVM, then you don't need progressive scan features or a HDMI output. There's not much you can do wrong. If you buy any player that looks like and weights as much as a tank, then you can be pretty sure that it was a high-end model and the analogue output was likely top-notch. Sony, Denon and Pioneer were considered the best manufacturers. My first dedicated DVD player (following a Pioneer LD/DVD combo player) was the Sony DVP-S7700 and later on a Sony DVP-NS999ES, modded with SDI.
Speaking of SDI in general: if you got a PVM with a SDI input and the ability to upgrade using a SDI card, then this is certainly something to consider. SDI mods on pre-HDMI DVD player tapped the signal directly after the MPEG decoder, so this as good as it gets, if you want raw, unaltered 480i.
If you're aiming at a PVM, then you don't need progressive scan features or a HDMI output. There's not much you can do wrong. If you buy any player that looks like and weights as much as a tank, then you can be pretty sure that it was a high-end model and the analogue output was likely top-notch. Sony, Denon and Pioneer were considered the best manufacturers. My first dedicated DVD player (following a Pioneer LD/DVD combo player) was the Sony DVP-S7700 and later on a Sony DVP-NS999ES, modded with SDI.
Speaking of SDI in general: if you got a PVM with a SDI input and the ability to upgrade using a SDI card, then this is certainly something to consider. SDI mods on pre-HDMI DVD player tapped the signal directly after the MPEG decoder, so this as good as it gets, if you want raw, unaltered 480i.
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Steamflogger Boss
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I've always been curious about sdi. I finally got my harmony remote working with my lumagen that has sdi in, now I would just need a player.
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How does 480i tend to look using the Extron RGB 240p trick with DVD playback? Would that be something worth looking at? Just an idea.
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kitty666cats
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I've done it with PS2 game playback, but not DVD - it looked pretty shite. If you're gonna try to make DVD playback progressive I'd def say bring 'er upwards, not downwardsstrayan wrote:How does 480i tend to look using the Extron RGB 240p trick with DVD playback? Would that be something worth looking at? Just an idea.
