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It plays anything and everything, which is great.

The problems I'm having is playing music. I use Ogg Vorbis instead of MP3 which is why I bought this DVD-player. It does play Ogg-files.

However, some Ogg-files, say one in a hundred, hangs the player and I have to cut the power to get it back. Funnily enough, they always hang on 1 min 59 seconds. I've send an example to Kiss, but never heard from them. If I re-encode the song to Ogg again it usually works. Thankfully I can use DVD-RW so I don't waste good discs while checking.

Another, slighthly bigger problem is that quite a few Ogg-files of quality 5 or higher starts to stutter so I now encode everything at quality 3. Even then I've got two songs (out of 4000+) that stutters even at quality 3. The same song on MP3 192 kb/s variable bitrate plays without a glitch.

Oh, and it does get hot, but I usually just disconnect it when I'm not using it.

... all written above (crashing, locking, etc.) plus awful sound.
My intention was to use this to watch movies and listen to the music, but listening to the music (MP3 or CD audio) is terrible experience. Before this piece of ****, I had Pioneer DVD player and before that Technics CD player. Both of them had a nice sound (on Technics amp and Jamo speakers).
Horrible, horrible ... stay away from Kiss player!

this dvd is great. picture is good quality and it has good connections on the back for just about everything u cud want. but unfortunatly mine has stopped working after 3 months of use! most of the time it wont turn on or when it does turn on the film u are playin either stops/crashes after an amount of time or the player turns its self off. i am hoping that mine was from a bad batcg or something because apart from it reakin so soon it was very good.

I'm sure you know the story...the old coal driven DVD player finally expires and you think that now is the time to embrace the future and purchase a machine that supports Divx and DVD. The DP-1000 had decent reviews and the specification looked good, so I just had to get it.

The unit is fairly stylish, A4 sized with minimalistic good looks, although the CD drawer is a bit clunky. Setup is very easy and in no time the machine is ready to play movies.

Ah - that's when things get a little problematic.

The first DVD plays OK up until about half way, when I decide to fast forward and the DP-1000 decides that it would be better just to lock up. A quick off/on of the power gets things back to normal and this time the fast forward works OK. I next try a few CD-Rs with a DivX movies - the machine locks up with 3 of the 7 disks.

So, I look on the web for some help and find a good site called "mpeg-playcenter". The advice points me in the direction of the Kiss site where they have just released a new version of the DP-1000 player software. The upgrade goes easy enough and now every movie - both DVD and DivX - plays perfectly. For approximately 5 minutes each then the system locks up.

OK - back to the Kiss web site for help. Hmm, they've removed the upgrade and put an apology in it's place. Yeah, I love being an unwitting beta tester!

So, the unit is now back in it's box - and a very nice box it is too. In fact, I couldn't ask for a better box.

Pity I couldn't say that about the player.

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.