Acoustic Solutions DVD551 DVD Player

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DVD Player	CDR CDRW	DVD-R DVD-RW	DVD+R DVD+RW	BD-R BD-RE	DivX JPG	MP3 WMA	Price	Rating Info	Reports Comments
Acoustic Solutions DVD551	CDR CDRW	DVD-R DVD-RW DVD-R DL?	DVD+R DVD+RW DVD+R DL?	BD-R BD-RE BD-R DL	DivX JPG	MP3 WMA	$125	8.7/10 22 votes	View 27 reports (18696 views) Post report
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	Video formats: VCD SVCD DivX XviD JPG, MPEGISO Audio formats: MP3 max 320kbit/s MP3 long filename MP3 ID3 TAG WMA				Other features: Google this player Region code free hack here Google this player.
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	1 Bulkpaq 1xDVD-R (PRINCO......) comments, 0 plays 1 dont play. 1 Bulkpaq 4xDVD-R (PRINCO......) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. 1 Datasafe Media 4xDVD-R (RITEKG04....) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. 2 Datawrite (Printable) 8xDVD+R (MCC.....003) comments, 1 plays 1 dont play. 1 Datawrite Red (V2) 4xDVD-R (INFOSMART01.) comments, 0 plays 1 dont play. 1 Imation 8xDVD+R (MBIPG101R04) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. 1 Mirror Platinum 4xDVD-R (AN31........) comments, 0 plays 1 dont play. 1 Panasonic 2xBD-R (MEI...T01) comments, 0 plays 1 dont play. Post your DVD Media comments here
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	simon from United Kingdom reported April 04, 2004: Read features: Price: Time used: Rating: CDR CDRW DVD-R DVD-RW DVD-R DL? DVD+R DVD+RW DVD+R DL? BD-R? BD-RE? BD-R DL? MP3 VBR WMA CVD? $125 N/A 8 of 10 MP3 long filename DivX DVD-RAM Comments: I bought this dvd player because it was the cheapest one I could find with a built in Dolby digital converter with the 5.1 sockets for my surround sound processor. And I have been really pleased with it plays virtually everything I have put in it. The sound and picture quality are good. Apart from a click I get when I first switch it on when the surround sound processor is in 6 channel mode. But that is a minor problem. It was very easy to convert to multi region. And recently I got a marantz sa-cd dvd player but I sent it back because. it wasn’t any better for playing films and there were more restriction with what you could play that there is with the acoustic solutions machine. I have recently bought a lg. dvd multi burner. And everything I have burnt has played fine in this dvd player. using datawrite and infiniti disc's. For the money I think it is very good machine.
	G Cottier from Other reported December 09, 2003: Read features: Price: Time used: Rating: CDR? CDRW? DVD-R? DVD-RW? DVD-R DL? DVD+R DVD+RW DVD+R DL? BD-R? BD-RE? BD-R DL? MP3 WMA? CVD? $? N/A 10 of 10 Comments: Played everything I've thrown at it so far. Bargin price of £49.99 at Richer Sounds UK
	craig from Other reported October 21, 2003: Read features: Price: Time used: Rating: CDR CDRW DVD-R? DVD-RW? DVD-R DL? DVD+R? DVD+RW? DVD+R DL? BD-R? BD-RE? BD-R DL? MP3 VBR WMA? CVD? $? N/A 10 of 10 JPG/JPEG Comments: it seems like this will play ANYTHING, and it prbably can. It will play any CD-r or CD-rw i try in it. will play VCD/SVCD/XVCD/XSVCD with no problems. I just tried an XSVCD with the following settings: 720x576 (4:3) res. MPEG-2 VBR - 5000kbits max setting with 4500kbits average. audio 320kbits the clip looked superb and almost as good as the original DV footage. And to add, this file written to the shadiest CD-r i've ever bought which cost me 12pence....(100 cd's for £12) it plays all of the jpeg cds i put in, and any MP3 disk. alround, the best £120 ever spent.
	Andy from Other reported July 18, 2003: Read features: Price: Time used: Rating: CDR CDRW DVD-R Few DVD-RW DVD-R DL? DVD+R? DVD+RW? DVD+R DL? BD-R? BD-RE? BD-R DL? MP3 WMA? CVD? $? N/A No rating MP3 ID3 TAG Comments: No problems burning DVD-R with Pinnacle Studio and Nero with my Pioneer 105 drive. I have found the player very temperamental with DVD-RW. The only media which worked for me was Datawrite 1x. The ones I tested which did not work were Datawrite 2x, Verbatim DataLifePlus version 1.1, Maxell 1 to 2x Ver1.1/2x Also the DVD-RW only worked when I burned it with my Pinnacle programs - Pinnacle Studio 8.5 and Pinnacle Systems Instant CD/DVD version 7.0. (Note with this that "New Project" does not immediately give the option of DVD, but defaults to CD - don't give up but right click your project and then the general tab and change to DVD - Under filesystems choose iso 9660-1 Uncheck Microsoft Joliet, Write file versions and Maximum of 8 etc. Use Charset ISO9660 Check UDF and use version 1.02. Then just put your Video_ts folder onto the DVD. You must choose "data disc" to start with as there is no direct option for DVD video) Using the same options with Nero 5.5.10.0 the resulting disc was unplayable in the 551! Note that I have only tried the Pinnacle programs above and Nero. So I am uncertain of results with other burning programs. The player copes well with MP3 files - though it cannot read long file names. It distinguishes directories though.
	ellal from Other reported May 05, 2003: Read features: Price: Time used: Rating: CDR CDRW DVD-R DVD-RW DVD-R DL? DVD+R? DVD+RW? DVD+R DL? BD-R? BD-RE? BD-R DL? MP3? WMA? CVD? $? N/A No rating Comments: havn't had any problems with this drive until i tried running dvd-r's burnt at 4 speed. they play for about 15mins, and then start getting pauses. it seems to be when the disks warm up.
	Al from Other reported January 19, 2003: Read features: Price: Time used: Rating: CDR CDRW DVD-R DVD-RW DVD-R DL? DVD+R? DVD+RW? DVD+R DL? BD-R? BD-RE? BD-R DL? MP3? WMA? CVD? $125 N/A 9 of 10 Comments: Very pleased with this player. Will play all my DVD-rs.
	Damian from Other reported January 03, 2003: Read features: Price: Time used: Rating: CDR CDRW DVD-R? DVD-RW? DVD-R DL? DVD+R? DVD+RW? DVD+R DL? BD-R? BD-RE? BD-R DL? MP3 VBR WMA CVD? $175 N/A 9 of 10 MPEGISO Comments: Regarding a previous user's comments - this player will play MPEG-2 CBR files with no problem. However, it doesn't play VBR (from TMPGEnc) in my tests to date.
	Nick from Other reported November 30, 2002: Read features: Price: Time used: Rating: CDR? CDRW? DVD-R? DVD-RW? DVD-R DL? DVD+R? DVD+RW? DVD+R DL? BD-R? BD-RE? BD-R DL? MP3? WMA? CVD? $? N/A No rating Comments: Is this still available from Richer Sounds. Its no longer on their web site
	Richmix from Other reported October 11, 2002: Read features: Price: Time used: Rating: CDR CDRW DVD-R? DVD-RW? DVD-R DL? DVD+R? DVD+RW? DVD+R DL? BD-R? BD-RE? BD-R DL? MP3? WMA? CVD? $175 N/A 8 of 10 MPEGISO Comments: Just bought this player following good reports posted on this site Mainly will use it for my own SVCD & XSVCD CD's and plays them fine - tested upto 4200kbs - no problems. Does tend to go a bit strange when I search forward though - will update report after more trials So far so good - excellent budget player with lots of features
	Andrew Smith from Other reported September 26, 2002: Read features: Price: Time used: Rating: CDR CDRW DVD-R DVD-RW? DVD-R DL? DVD+R DVD+RW? DVD+R DL? BD-R? BD-RE? BD-R DL? MP3 VBR WMA? CVD? $? N/A 10 of 10 Comments: Had mine for 12 mths nearly. It hsn`t failed to play a disc yet. Picture & sound quality is excellent. 2 other people who have watched dvd`s on my player have also bought the same player(from Richer).
	NUGUN from Other reported September 04, 2002: Read features: Price: Time used: Rating: CDR CDRW DVD-R DVD-RW? DVD-R DL? DVD+R? DVD+RW? DVD+R DL? BD-R? BD-RE? BD-R DL? MP3 VBR 196kbit/s WMA? CVD $? N/A 9 of 10 Comments: Great player bought from richer sounds, cant fault it everything I have thrown at it so far even dodgy disks. Does play CVD, and the quality is great and also the sound.
	Robert Berry from Other reported September 02, 2002: Read features: Price: Time used: Rating: CDR CDRW DVD-R? DVD-RW? DVD-R DL? DVD+R? DVD+RW? DVD+R DL? BD-R? BD-RE? BD-R DL? MP3 VBR WMA CVD? $175 N/A 9 of 10 JPG/JPEG DVD-MP3 MP3 long filename MP3 ID3 TAG Comments: A superb piece of equipment. I read the reviews here before I bought and to be honest, it was better than I was lead to believe. To date I can't find a damn thing wrong with it! £120 from Richer Sounds (http://www.richersounds.com) or stores throughout the UK. It's money well spent.
	JennaFan from Other reported August 19, 2002: Read features: Price: Time used: Rating: CDR CDRW DVD-R DVD-RW? DVD-R DL? DVD+R? DVD+RW? DVD+R DL? BD-R? BD-RE? BD-R DL? MP3? WMA? CVD? $? N/A 10 of 10 Comments: Was going to give this player 9 out of 10 as you cannot disable macrovision - but what the hell, it's not really that important these days IMHO. Previously brought the DVD451 - but took it back after I realised that model would not play DVD-R. I have tested various cdr brands from cheapos to TDK and Verbatim - and it played the lot - no skipping at all. The picture quality is superb - better than an Apex that I had but also took back as there was no VCD support???? Got from Richer Sounds for 119ukp - and I consider this to be the best money I have spent in a fair while.
	Stu from Other reported July 15, 2002: Read features: Price: Time used: Rating: CDR? CDRW? DVD-R? DVD-RW? DVD-R DL? DVD+R? DVD+RW? DVD+R DL? BD-R? BD-RE? BD-R DL? MP3? WMA? CVD? $? N/A 9 of 10 Comments: Quick Update miniDVD plays fine even at the highest bit rates but no menu's, you have to pick the vts file to play it and manually change sound to c0 and no control when file is playing other than pause play and stop. DVD-R/RW play perfectly with all menu's etc. vob's and mpeg files play from an iso cd-r/rw. My brother just got a Mustek 562 and the chassis looks identical to the Acoustic. It even has the same splash screen (dolphins) but the menu is slightly different and the multiregion hack is different so I guess it's the same player with different firmware.However he has had trouble playing the same media the Acoustic can handle.
	Stu from Other reported July 13, 2002: Read features: Price: Time used: Rating: CDR CDRW DVD-R DVD-RW DVD-R DL? DVD+R? DVD+RW? DVD+R DL? BD-R? BD-RE? BD-R DL? MP3 CBR WMA? CVD? $150 N/A 9 of 10 miniDVD/cDVD JPG/JPEG MP3 long filename Comments: This is a little Gem. Plays all media I've thrown at it so far CD-R/RW DVD-R/RW I've tested XSVCD to 4500cbr so far with superb results. Plays DVD-R and DVD-RW burned with my Pioneer 104 without a hitch. Plays miniDVD. MP3 playback is again very good but file names seem to be restricted to 6 chars. Remote feels a bit cheap and you have to point it straight at the player to operate. Got mine from Richer Sounds for 119ukp, went to shop with every intention of buying the CyberHome, they let me use all my test media to do a side by side comparison, the Acoustic picture quality was better and it played all the test media I had. The CyberHome wouldn't read the cheapest DVD-R I had, although to be fair it was only one disk out of about a dozen mixed cd-r cd-rw dvd-r and dvd-rw burned in various formats.
	Gromit from Other reported June 13, 2002: Read features: Price: Time used: Rating: CDR CDRW DVD-R DVD-RW? DVD-R DL? DVD+R? DVD+RW? DVD+R DL? BD-R? BD-RE? BD-R DL? MP3? WMA? CVD? $? N/A 8 of 10 Comments: Just received this player from Richersounds, I have tried all my existing vcd\\svcd, all work fine. It even plays cheap dvd-r disks that i bought from scan.co.uk they were 100 disks for £100 approx. It surprised me but the sound and picture quality is superb.
	TC from Other reported May 21, 2002: Read features: Price: Time used: Rating: CDR CDRW? DVD-R? DVD-RW? DVD-R DL? DVD+R? DVD+RW? DVD+R DL? BD-R? BD-RE? BD-R DL? MP3? WMA? CVD? $150 N/A 8 of 10 MP3 long filename MP3 ID3 TAG Comments: Supposedly plays svcd's but seems to not want to play anything mpeg2 encoded, not sure if this is the reason however it will play some svcd's
	Ian Firth from Other reported May 12, 2002: Read features: Price: Time used: Rating: CDR CDRW DVD-R? DVD-RW? DVD-R DL? DVD+R? DVD+RW? DVD+R DL? BD-R? BD-RE? BD-R DL? MP3 VBR WMA? CVD? $? N/A No rating miniDVD/cDVD Comments: Cant get authored VCDs to play, with ay authoring tool or any manufacturers CD's.
	Troy McLure from Other reported April 28, 2002: Read features: Price: Time used: Rating: CDR CDRW? DVD-R DVD-RW? DVD-R DL? DVD+R? DVD+RW? DVD+R DL? BD-R? BD-RE? BD-R DL? MP3 WMA? CVD? $180 N/A 8 of 10 Comments: I did a lot of research before buying, even considering paying up to £200 if a player suited my needs. I bought this at Richer Sounds for £119 and am delighted with its ability to play DVD-Rs, VCDs and MP3s without difficulty. It has 6 channel outputs (unlike specified elsewhere). Downsides? Initial 'boom' of audio when switched on, leading me to switch my hi-fi on second, and I haven't found a way of demacrovisioning it on the internet. Overall a great player for the price, especially if compatibility is important.
	The Viking from Other reported April 24, 2002: Read features: Price: Time used: Rating: CDR CDRW DVD-R? DVD-RW? DVD-R DL? DVD+R? DVD+RW? DVD+R DL? BD-R? BD-RE? BD-R DL? MP3 WMA? CVD? $140 N/A 9 of 10 Comments: I can chuck any old CDR brand, and pretty much any CDRW. Even cheapo 'Princo'. Both VCD and SVCD playback is excellent. I can also confirm it will .mpg burnt in data format. One quibble, playing DVDs, if you 'pause' and then 'advance frame' straight after then 'play' you may find the audio out of sync, which rights itself on the next chapter. But all in all a great player, cheap as well. From Richer sounds, sometimes do deals at £99.
	K. Cann from Other reported April 02, 2002: Read features: Price: Time used: Rating: CDR CDRW DVD-R DVD-RW? DVD-R DL? DVD+R? DVD+RW? DVD+R DL? BD-R? BD-RE? BD-R DL? MP3? WMA? CVD? $140 N/A 8 of 10 Comments: This is the ONLY player that I have found that will play back a CD that was burned in DATA mode with mpeg1 video file. Ideal if you add video to CD's to play back in CD players built into computers eg corporate work.
	ferkh10 from Other reported February 26, 2002: Read features: Price: Time used: Rating: CDR CDRW? DVD-R DVD-RW DVD-R DL? DVD+R? DVD+RW? DVD+R DL? BD-R? BD-RE? BD-R DL? MP3? WMA? CVD? $140 N/A 8 of 10 Comments: Have used Princo DVD-RW and both Pioner and unbranded DVD-Rs without any problems at all. also, played SVCDS without any problems.
	Ray Jones from Other reported February 01, 2002: Read features: Price: Time used: Rating: CDR CDRW DVD-R DVD-RW? DVD-R DL? DVD+R? DVD+RW? DVD+R DL? BD-R? BD-RE? BD-R DL? MP3? WMA? CVD? $140 N/A 9 of 10 Comments: Excellent little player for the money. Plays region 1 perfectly with no jitter. Plays S/VCDs perfectly.
	Paul Collins from Other reported January 05, 2002: Read features: Price: Time used: Rating: CDR CDRW? DVD-R? DVD-RW? DVD-R DL? DVD+R? DVD+RW? DVD+R DL? BD-R? BD-RE? BD-R DL? MP3 WMA? CVD? $? N/A 7 of 10 Comments: No comments
	T McCarthy from Other reported December 30, 2001: Read features: Price: Time used: Rating: CDR CDRW DVD-R DVD-RW DVD-R DL? DVD+R? DVD+RW? DVD+R DL? BD-R? BD-RE? BD-R DL? MP3 WMA? CVD? $165 N/A No rating Comments: 6-channel output: no Built-in Dolby Digital decoder: yes Optical Outputs: 1 Coaxial Outputs: 1 S-Video Output: yes SCART output: yes Multi-region: yes Number of Discs: 1 To be compatible with DTS digital out (Ready) and 3D virtual surround. 5.1 Channels Dolby Digital AC-3 surround sound decoder built-in. 96KHz/24-bit stereo audio DACs. 10-bit video D/A converter. NTSC/PAL TV System selectable. Selectable screen aspect ratio (4:3 & 16:9). VFD display. Composite and Component (RGB/YUV) video outputs. RGB on scart connector. 32 languages of subtitle and 8 tracks of dialogues. Multi-angle Disc supported. Video horizontal resolution up to 500 lines or above. Fast Forward and Backward, Slow, Play or Skip, Zoom, Parental Lock, Full Remote Control function and Multi-Region or Free Region Code. Universal power supply: AC 100V-240V ±10% , 50/60 Hz, 20W. DIMENSIONS 430mm x 302mm x 90mm
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