'DivX certified' MPEG4 player from German discounter ALDI ...

[ChristianHJW]

... for 79,99- € , and now for the life of me i cant find the flyer anymore to provide you with some details or a scan even.

On first sight it was looking like one of the 'slim-line' models from KiSS, but i am not sure about that. If i find the flyer again i will give an update ...

[ChristianHJW]

Strange, the website only shows a DVD player, and for 79,99- € ?? Where is this crazy flyer ..... Grrrrr ....

EDIT : found it !

Its branded as TEVION ( ALDI brand ), advertised for Monday, 24th November, with the following features

- DVD
- VCD
- S-VCD
- DTS
- AC3
- WMA
- MP3
- MP4 ( container ? audio ? )
- Picture CD
- progressive scan
- optical/coax digital out
- DivX certified

I dont think anymore its a Kiss device now, no idea where they get it from ....

[Sirber]

seems too good to be true

[Doom9]

actually.. standard players (thus based on the old sigma chip and the ess chip) have reached that price level.. but with the usual playback limitations (high bitrate 3.11, no gmc and qpel, no alternative containers and usually no subs). I've seen two players in similar price ranges last week in a local store. But MP4 usually means MPEG-4 simple profile @ DVD resolutions, and nothing more. MP4 players are in the work, but don't expect too many too soon.
I'd rather have that ASP capable elta player to see if it can live up to the hype.

[Zhnujm]

Its an ESS player.
No support for 2 audiotracks and problems with fullscreen playback inclusive.

[SeeMoreDigital]

Me thinks this thread should be moved to the Hardwar Players section!

Like Doom9. I'm waiting for the elta 8883 player.

But just €79.99.... (around £55.00) That's amazing!

Buy it, play with it, take it apart, play with it some more, let the kids play with it, take it apart again, break it, bin it!

Cheers

[The Edge]

That's a great price. But you get what you pay for

These would be sold out in minutes. In my local Aldi you have to queue before shop opens and they usually give out tickets to make it fair. Ah well.

Edge

[SeeMoreDigital]

Originally posted by The Edge
That's a great price. But you get what you pay for

These would be sold out in minutes. In my local Aldi you have to queue before shop opens and they usually give out tickets to make it fair. Ah well.

Edge

At my store too!

The new Medion Titanium MD 8080XL PC is available on Thu 27 Nov. It's got just about every type of connection and accessory you can think of. And it's only £850.00!

Cheers

[The Edge]

Lovely.
I'll have to check Aldi.ie
Nice one.

Edge

[SeeMoreDigital]

Originally posted by The Edge



Lovely.
I'll have to check Aldi.ie
Nice one.

Edge

Another useful thing to note is that, all Medion PC's come with a pre partitioned hard drive (3No partitions). One of which stores the O/S, driver and software. So provided all your data is not stored on the main boot partition the PC can be formatted and up and running again in around 30 mins.

And they give you the O/S and software on CD's too!

I got one of these, this time last year, for my step father. And it's never had a problem... So you could say it's even idiot proof - I'll get in trouble for that remark!

Cheers

[The Edge]

Yeap. Gateway did that hidden partition for a while here in Europe. Listed as "Non-Dos partition" in fdisk. Very useful indeed.

Edge

[ChristianHJW]

Originally posted by Doom9 actually.. standard players (thus based on the old sigma chip and the ess chip) have reached that price level.. but with the usual playback limitations (high bitrate 3.11, no gmc and qpel, no alternative containers and usually no subs).

.... standard players are not 'DivX certified' IIRC .... so i really wonder if ALDI is giving shit about DivX N and their brand name DivX, or if the player really IS certified, and for this low money ...

[ChristianHJW]

This statement from BeZ from the DivX N team is worth reading : http://forums.divx.com/viewtopic.php...55757&forum=21

ALDI is cheating :O !!

[Doom9]

so are most others. But I haven't had any problems with my non certified elta player (but my dad constantly manages to break it somehow to the point where you cannot use it anymore.. I've never had any problems). But so far there is simply no player where I wouldn't have a but in my recommendation. If you stick to the certification specs with your content you shouldn't have any problems with most players, but if you don't, all bets are off.

[SeeMoreDigital]

Personally I can't understand why DivX bangs on about certification!

My current understanding is, as long as you don't generate DivX encodes with Qpel (or GMC in some cases) and don't exceed 414,720 pixels, they should work fine with every DivX capable hardware player!

Now when the new elta 8883 player arrives, if it can cope with Qpel, then DivX certification or not... all DivX encodes should play, regardless of the settings used.

So what will be the point of certification. Or have I misunderstood something?

Cheers

[bond]

Originally posted by SeeMoreDigital
So what will be the point of certification. Or have I misunderstood something?

well, it helps dxn making their brand "divx" a standard description (and not "mpeg-4 asp" for example)
it means that all hardware manufacturers wouldnt come around asking dxn to be able to put the divx name on their standalones (not for free in the future i guess )
it would mean that perhaps more "not that professional" people will use the divx5 codec instead of others to be sure to be able to play it on divx standalones...

all in all i dont care about the divx certification and buy the elta 8883

[SeeMoreDigital]

So, as suspected. It's pretty pointless!

It's just another way for DivX to promoted their name in the Mpeg4 market place!

I'm certainly with you regarding the Elta 8883. There is no doubt having players that can support ASP (advanced simple profile) encoding is the way to go. Despite the fact I personally don't encode using Qpel.

Cheers

[bond]

Originally posted by SeeMoreDigital
So, as suspected. It's pretty pointless!

its not that easy:

the dxn guys always claimed that full asp players will not come because of processor power issues (search around on doom9 for that statements)
if this claim is true, it makes of course sense to have something like a hardware profile to make sure that you can play your mpeg-4 movies (under that profile) on standalones (if that profile has to be named "divx certification" or something else is another issue)

on the other side, if it is true what elta claims, that their player can handle advanced features like qpel and gmc, than this prooves the dxn claim as wrong and the divx certification is useless (and will have its place in mpeg-4 history as stepstone on the way to full mpeg-4 standalones )

so lets hope that eltas claims are true

[SeeMoreDigital]

Originally posted by bond
its not that easy:

the dxn guys always claimed that full asp players will not come because of processor power issues (search around on doom9 for that statements)
if this claim is true, it makes of course sense to have something like a hardware profile to make sure that you can play your mpeg-4 movies (under that profile) on standalones (if that profile has to be named "divx certification" or something else is another issue)

on the other side, if it is true what elta claims, that their player can handle advanced features like qpel and gmc, than this prooves the dxn claim as wrong and the divx certification is useless (and will have its place in mpeg-4 history as stepstone on the way to full mpeg-4 standalones )

so lets hope that eltas claims are true

I was assuming Elta's claim was a given!

Lets hope it is true!

Cheers

[bond]

Originally posted by SeeMoreDigital
I was assuming Elta's claim was a given!

well, i also assume that they dont lie