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Old version better than the new one.
I had one CyberHome CH-DVD 300S Progressive-Scan DVD Player that I bought around 5 years ago and it was great, the dvd player I ever had. It could play everything including Divx format. I gave it to my Mom in Brazil and decided to buy another one, the same model, but they are coming different now. They look the same, they have the same name 300S but they are not playing Divx format. This is usually the format you have for dvds created in your PC. So, all taht big advantage it had before is gone. The only good thing remaining is that it still is a multi-region dvd player. This little gem has one feature no other DVD player apparently has. First, this player produces a crystal clear picture equal to the pricier model I own of another very well-known brand, and the response time of this player to any button pressed on its remote is also twice as fast as my pricier model. And now for the number one reason I bought this player: its remote has a "1/All" button that will continuously play and repeat all episodes on a standard DVD -- a small thing, but extremely useful, especially if the DVD itself has no "Play All" option on its root menu. Apparently, this is particular to this brand of DVD player; I've tried two other brands of DVD players and neither of them featured this ability. "Associates" at BestBuy and Circuit City also informed me they sell no DVD players at any price that have this feature. By the way, the first one I'd bought of these died within a year after purchase, but at this price, replacing it is not a mighty concern. Cyberhome DVD player review I was disapointed that the zoom feature mode of operation was changed. I had one before that stopped playing but I liked the zoom feature it had. It worked by presenting a frame within the picture when the zoom button was pressed and then by pressing Enter, the view within the frame was enlarged. This could be repeated has many times as you want. The current one only enlages by 2x, 3x and 4x. That's all. Otherwise I like the player and it is inexpensive and compact. I use it mostly to view JPEG pictures on disk. Don't Throw Your Money Away My Cyberhome DVD player locked up and will not play any more. I had used it maybe 10 times! I went online and found others expressing that they had the same experience. I wish I had gone with another brand. I emailed Cyberhome with my complaint hoping they could give me some kind of advice on how to get it working again but, they never returned my email with any comment. I would not recommend any product sold by Cyberhome. It doesn't seem to me as though they care about repeat business with their customers. Just sell it cheap and rip them off one at a time. Thanks, Mark Decent for the price I bought two of these to replace really old DVD players in my house, and I would call these 'adequate', but not fantastic. They play home-burned DVDs and +/- R media which my old players would not handle, but they seem to struggle with some discs and will sometimes even stop playing. The same discs will play fine in my high-end HD-DVD player. For some reason, the subtitles default to 'on', which is annoying. The remote is poorly-laid out and uses REALLY EXPENSIVE batteries. I've never seen a remote use this kind of battery. Why not use a standard double-A like every other remote on the planet? | |
