johny5
16th March 2003, 16:02
What standalone DVD player to buy?
hi everybody, especially alec966,
I have red something about using standalone DVD player JVC XV-N5SL. I would like to buy this standalone DVD player, but ... I will describe my experiences: I have prepared few SVCD´s, every one with antoher settings (first CD was CVD subtitles, VCDXBuild, two audio streams, second CD was SVCD subtitles, VCDImager .. and so on) and I have gone to the shop. There I tried to play all CD´s on DVD player JVC XV-N5SL (EISA prize winner). Here is the result:
1) none of my all CD´s show subtitles, although the player sometimes indicates them (in the left upper corner appears an subtitle icon in the start of the playing) and sometimes not. After I have choosen them, nothing appeared.
2) all CD´s correctly play the sound and in all CD´s I was able to switch between two audio strems (and both played correctly).
3) photo CD (format VCD 2.0) with menu and photos worked fine, but I noticed, that colors of all shown photos turned a little bit to green, even if the photos did not include any green parts.
3) the picture of a video was always sharp, perfect visible quality BUT ... THE BIGGEST PROBLEM I NOTICED DURING THIS TEST WAS ... during playback of all CD´s there was always DARK AND LIGHTGREEN COLOR in grey and black areas of video on the screen. In other words - when the scene on the screen was for example night, night battle or even darker corner of the room, I saw always the mixture of gray-black-GREEN color. I was not able to change the video settings of player to correct this mismatch color reproducing (JVC XV-N5SL has a video-fine-processor with several modes of video to change the picture - saturation, hue, tint, and so on). No success. In PC I use WinDVD, PowerDVD, I played all those CD on my DVD-ROM and CD-R/RW drive, I tried another PC with another graphic card, another CD-ROM ... and I noticed none of the green-color-problem mentioned above appeared. Playeng the video on PC is always good (except subtitles, which never appears, but this I know). During my DVD-testing in the shop I tried another DVD player PROLink ... when using this player, the green color was also visible in the dark areas on screen, but not so much. Does this problem appear to somebody else?
Under those circumstances I realized not to buy neither this JVC player, nor the PROLing player. Could somebody help me - what standalone DVD player will work and show correct video and subtitles converted and prepared by DVD2SVCD with common settings? Could somebody give me an advice? I hope those written facts will maybe help to somebody else.
Thank you very much. Johny5
hi everybody, especially alec966,
I have red something about using standalone DVD player JVC XV-N5SL. I would like to buy this standalone DVD player, but ... I will describe my experiences: I have prepared few SVCD´s, every one with antoher settings (first CD was CVD subtitles, VCDXBuild, two audio streams, second CD was SVCD subtitles, VCDImager .. and so on) and I have gone to the shop. There I tried to play all CD´s on DVD player JVC XV-N5SL (EISA prize winner). Here is the result:
1) none of my all CD´s show subtitles, although the player sometimes indicates them (in the left upper corner appears an subtitle icon in the start of the playing) and sometimes not. After I have choosen them, nothing appeared.
2) all CD´s correctly play the sound and in all CD´s I was able to switch between two audio strems (and both played correctly).
3) photo CD (format VCD 2.0) with menu and photos worked fine, but I noticed, that colors of all shown photos turned a little bit to green, even if the photos did not include any green parts.
3) the picture of a video was always sharp, perfect visible quality BUT ... THE BIGGEST PROBLEM I NOTICED DURING THIS TEST WAS ... during playback of all CD´s there was always DARK AND LIGHTGREEN COLOR in grey and black areas of video on the screen. In other words - when the scene on the screen was for example night, night battle or even darker corner of the room, I saw always the mixture of gray-black-GREEN color. I was not able to change the video settings of player to correct this mismatch color reproducing (JVC XV-N5SL has a video-fine-processor with several modes of video to change the picture - saturation, hue, tint, and so on). No success. In PC I use WinDVD, PowerDVD, I played all those CD on my DVD-ROM and CD-R/RW drive, I tried another PC with another graphic card, another CD-ROM ... and I noticed none of the green-color-problem mentioned above appeared. Playeng the video on PC is always good (except subtitles, which never appears, but this I know). During my DVD-testing in the shop I tried another DVD player PROLink ... when using this player, the green color was also visible in the dark areas on screen, but not so much. Does this problem appear to somebody else?
Under those circumstances I realized not to buy neither this JVC player, nor the PROLing player. Could somebody help me - what standalone DVD player will work and show correct video and subtitles converted and prepared by DVD2SVCD with common settings? Could somebody give me an advice? I hope those written facts will maybe help to somebody else.
Thank you very much. Johny5