my test of SilverCrest KH 6507 DVD/Divx Player

[Hackerjac]

Got it from lidl in Portugal for 79€

Slimline model, black color, pretty nice cabinet if you ask me
Build on the MTK 1389FE chip, build in DD 5.1 and DTS decoder
Remote is more or less the same as for all cheap players, but the buttons are green lighting in the dark
3 years of warenty
very thin cd drawer that comes out pretty fast
firmware upgradeabel
a real power on/off on the front, left upper corner
good picture quality
plays divx subs, srt, sub [Microdvd) and smi, even suports multi srt subs, [so far testet whit 3 subs files on same movie]
small white subs on transperent background, centered, loaded automatic if in same folder as the avi
Progressiv scan, 5.1 anolog output, coxial and spdif digital out, scart, RGB and s-video out
2 audio track on same avi is suportet
no GMC suport
can jump to a certin point in time while playing avi
plays mp3/wma from dvd
no extra info on player-display like id3-tags etc, only time/track-indications
can be made region-free
reading photo's trough the build-in card-reader but is pretty slow


manual can be found here
http://www.kompernass.com/display.html?section=products&subsection=detail&product=276%E2%8C%A9=en

Pretty good player for the money, only thing that really anoys me is that i have some avi files encoded whit costum matrixes that play fine on my scott 842 [MTK 1389DE] but dosen't play well on the SilverCrest

link correctet

[niamh]

hehehe, I just got one of lidl ireland ;)

The subs are very good news indeed, I didn´t know it supported them....and no it doesn´t support gmc. I may add it does support Qpel, but no custom matrices indeed as far as I could see...all in all, I´m pretty pleased with it.
Do you know if there are upgrades already out for the firmware, or not?

PS: your link is broken.

[Hackerjac]

no officel fw is out, but at http://www.tenzor.cz/favo/SilverCrest_KH6507/ you can get the original firmware and a sub patcher, then you can make black outline on the subs, looks pretty neat and easyer to read

[SeeMoreDigital]

Originally posted by niamh
...and no it doesn´t support gmc. I would have thought it supports DivX's 1warp-point GMC!


Cheers

[niamh]

I would have thought it supports DivX's 1warp-point GMC!

;) Very likely it does,sorry for assuming we were talking about the real mcCoy 3 warp-point stuff :D. It actually produces an image with Xvid gmc encodes, it´s just not very fluid to say the least.(actually it´s horrible)

[niamh]

I found a report of some tests made with this player, which claims it to be able to play Xvid GMC, only without b frames. I may run a test for it, it's interesting.
It's also supposed to handle all sorts of dual audio.


I also found a firmware upgrade already, but it's only for proper display of czech and slovak subtitles.
link (http://www.tenzor.cz/favo/SilverCrest_KH6507/FW/)

edit: after testing, the Xvid gmc claim was BS, of course :sly: