I'll be very grateful if anyone can tell me if Marantz DV4300 supports PAL progressive scan? I have seen mixed reports, some say it does, some say it only supports NTSC progressive scan. The official site doesn't mention it at all.
The UK version of the Marantz DV4300 only supports NTSC Progressive scan as standard, but it was hinted in what hi*fi that many manufacturers built in the PAL Progressive scan into players but didn't unlock it to work till the standards were finialised (as they took so long for some reason). Also that manufacturers were going to release firmware upgrades to unlock the facility. I don't know if Marantz DV4300 is capable of displaying it but it keeps us hopeful. I'm looking to buy a PAL Progressive scan DVD player and the DV4300 is on my list. If anyone has any info on Marantz's stance on this topic plese tell!
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I have recently bought a Marantz DV 4300. The dvd player menu and the manual state that it supports progressive scan for PAL and NTSC. I'm satisfied with the player, but there's a small problem. When the digital out is set to bitstream, and i'm playing a vcd/svcd there is no sound from the digital out. In PCM mode the vcd/svcd's have sound, but then Dolby Digital is also converted to PCM (which is normal), and i don't want to switch all the time. The manual states that in bitstream mode it outputs PCM when playing vcd/svcd. I have a Marantz SR4300 receiver. Can somebody help me?
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Why don't you hook up analogue (left and right cables) to one input on your receiver for vcd's and then hook the digital cable up to a different input. Then just swith between inputs on you receiver depending on what you're watching.
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I have the DV-4300 and yes it does pal progressive scan - I dont think that there is anything to be gained by pal progressive output because if you are using a progressive display such as a projector it is incapable of displaying a progressive picture anyway. By that I mean it will wait for the 2 fields of an interlaced input and display them as one progressive frame anyway. The reason I bought this player is for the 3:2 pulldown for NTSC. PAL does not have a 3:2 pulldown issue - we use 4% speedup instead. I assume you have a progressive display seeing as you want a progressive player. Therefore you already have progressive pal because your display is progressive.
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I have the DV-4300 and yes it does pal progressive scan - I dont think that there is anything to be gained by pal progressive output because if you are using a progressive display such as a projector it is incapable of displaying a interlaced picture anyway. By that I mean it will wait for the 2 fields of an interlaced input and display them as one progressive frame anyway. The reason I bought this player is for the 3:2 pulldown for NTSC. PAL does not have a 3:2 pulldown issue - we use 4% speedup instead. I assume you have a progressive display seeing as you want a progressive player. Therefore you already have progressive pal because your display is progressive.
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I bought a DV-4300 not too long ago, and while it plays original DVD movies perfectly, I have problems trying to play burnt DVD's on the unit. The movie usually gets most of the way through without a hitch, but about 2/3 through the movie, it skips frames and sections of the movie to the point where I have to turn it off because the movie is unwatchable.
Someone suggested that the problem may be with the outer parts of the DVD-R(RW) and to try buring them at 1X. I did this but with limited success. I have aso tried DVD-R/DVD+R/DVD-RW, from various manufacturers to see if it was a disk quality problem.
I tried the same disks in a Panasonic DVD player and the movies ran perfectly.