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This is a beautiful looking machine and very compact. It plays everything I can think of to put in it. It even fast forwards DivX type films at up to 48X. The picture quality is excellent and seems better than when playing these in Windows Media Player. It has crashed on me a few times though which is disapointing as it needs disconnecting from the power to reset. I would still recommmend this player to anyone wanting to play DivX and Xvid, worth paying the bit extra as I had the Umax/Yamada equivalent and got frustrated with it's slugishness and constant crashing and lack of fast forward when playing VCDs and SVCDs not to mention the almost unusable MP3 player.

I was a bit apprehensive before I bought this. Would it work/wouldn't it work ? Well, I took the plunge and I'm not disappointed. This is a very small DVD player (half the size of my other DVD player). It has all the input/output ports that you need plus it works !! I've tried audio CDs,MP3s, DVDs, DivX etc and it's fine. I've had a few failures, but they may have been the wrong format or poorly encoded. This is a good DVD player in it's own right, but when you add in the ability to play DivX then you've got a bargain. It also comes with a bag of leads. The only downside is that it comes with a 'foreign' plug (two pin), so you have to buy an adaptor and it is not multi-region. When you buy it it is region-free, but after playing a certain number (5, I think) of DVDs it locks to that region, but there are support forums on the web which explain how to change this.

Plays almost everything this one ! Notice I say almost. Divx is fully supported but be careful with xvid. xvid developers have never given their name to any stand alone players because of the beta nature of the xvid code. This player will and does play most xvid encoded movies with clarity nigh on DVD quality, but doesn't support certain xvid settings such as Qpel. There may be more but this is the only one I've come across thus far.
Most xvids are encoded with the standard settings which play fine.
Price wise, can't be beaten, superb !

This is a very cool & full featured DIVX player.

The picture and sound quality (For DVD's) is excellent! For DIVX/VCD its as good as whats on the disc! There are still a few bugs to be fixed (as at version 2.80) with DIVX playback - for example FF/RW arent the best as it can be difficult to work out where you are on the disc. Sometimes if a file is incompatible the screen just hangs black and you have to reset the player!

Other than this I have no complaints and Ive only had compliments when people have seen how good this player looks and plays.

Read the reviews - hardly a word against, looks great, plays anything, cheap at the price, etc, so I bought one. Latest s/ware 2.8.

Looks great, I'll grant you but can only conclude mine was faulty it did so many thing badly or not at all. DVDs, MP3, music CDs all play fine. Shame you can't make MP3 directories but that's picky.

Now the big one, MPEG4 film clips. Tried all the well used profiles of divx and xvid. Checked 'em first on my PC drive. On the DP-1000, pause/play works mostly, fast forward/reverse either takes so long to catch up when you key Play again you might as well have left it to get there on it's own or it FREEZES. The only way out, then, is to unplug the thing to reset and get your disk out.

So, as I say, either mine was faulty or it simply doesn't do what it says on the box. It's gone back and I intend to buy a Yamada instead.