Budget DVD

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Gents

Need some advice on a reasonably priced DVD player to plug into my Onkyo SR605.

I have a Panasonic BD30 Blu Ray player but not impressed with DVD playback, in an ideal world it would upscale to 1080p and be ok with CD playback.

Can anyone help

Regards

 

[John Duncan]

Define 'reasonably priced'.

 

[Anonymous]

John

Would be useful, i am looking at £175 or below

Have seen a used Denon 1930 for £140.00 on E-bay and have heard good things about the picture quality and sound, i have also heard this is better than the later 1940, also the Samsung HD870 (£80) seems to recieve excellent reviews although it doed not upscale to 1080p

Any thoughts

 

[John Duncan]

Sound is supposed to be a little bit better on the 1930, but not picture, so I'd say the 1940 ticks all the boxes and is available for as little as 130 quid new - it's what I'd buy next.......

 

[Anonymous]

The Denon DVD1940 have been going for less than £90.00 on E-Bay (used) lately.

 

[Dennis Michos]

Not an expert but I have read wonderful reviews for the Oppo DVDs
You may want to consider them. They are multi-region and play SACD too
I think the cheapest model is around 160 GBP

http://www.oppodigital.com/default.asp?partner=google&gclid=CLKd4fPw2JQCFQpTtAodCCpnCw
http://www.opposhop.com/

I am waiting for a WhatHiFi full review

 

[Clare Newsome]

We have reviewed one of the Oppo players, but it appears not to have made it to the site - i'll dig it up!

 

[Simon Lucas]

We reviewed Oppo's DV-980H DVD player (£160) in June's issue - five stars was forthcoming.

I'm not entirely sure why the review hasn't made it on to the website - the mandatory investigation will be launched.

On the subject of budget DVD players generally, we're currently in the midst of a £100-ish Group Test of DVD players from the bigger names. It's appearing in the October issue.

 

[Simon Lucas]

Clare Newsome:We have reviewed one of the Oppo players, but it appears not to have made it to the site - i'll dig it up!

Yes... what the Director said.

 

[Anonymous]

Simon/Claire

Thanks for that will i find that in the DVD reviews in the next few days or will it appear elsewhere?

Regards

 

[Clare Newsome]

It's being loaded right now: check back in an hour or so and you should be able to read the review in our DVD players review section.

 

[Andrew Everard]

Review now available online here.

 

[Dennis Michos]

Thanks Andrew.
Shall we expect a review of Oppo's 981 and 983 anytime soon?
I am so confused about the video quality of each one.....Is the VRST by Anchor Bay so much superior?
I think (correct me if I am wrong) DVD players with this technology go 3 times the price of Oppo 983
Thanks!!!!

 

[Andrew Everard]

AFAIK we have a 983 on site for review in a future issue.

 

[fr0g]

Cambridge Audio DVD99

It also has a USB port and DivX playback (as well as DVD-A and SACD.)

(The Denon 1930 is badly built and the one I tried had an extremely noisy transport).
The Cambridge is aluminium body, picture not quite with the Denon (not bad though), but sound is better.IMO

 

[John Duncan]

But 1080i, I thought. If you can accept that, then deffo.

 

[fr0g]

Nope, Its 1080p (although I bought it for our downstairs TV which is not fullHD)

CD playback is very good in the price range.

 

[Anonymous]

Hi

Thanks for all the response, one last question, will the Onkyo SR605 (when i finally connect it up) improve the picture quality from my Panasonic BD30 or does the Blu ray player do the upscaling

Regards

 

[Andrew Everard]

The Blu-ray player does it.