AMW V101

Help us keep the list up to date and Submit new DVD Players here.

Search player:	(leave empty to search for all)  or/and with these features:
Media formats: (Based on user reports)	CDR CDRW DVD-RAM DVD-R DVD-RW DVD-R DL DVD+R DVD+RW DVD+R DL BD-R BD-RE BD-R DL
High Definition:	Blu-ray Disc(BD) HD DVD
Video formats:	DivX/XviD MP4 MKV JPG
Audio formats:	MP3 WMA
More Features:	+ List all features
Order by:	Name Rating Comments Price Views/Popularity Date Hits per page: 2550100150200

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
AMW V101	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	$30	8.3 (8.6) 34 votes	View 41 reports (16854 views) Add report
	More Features:
	Video formats: VCD SVCD DivX JPG, MPEGISO DVD-MPEGISO Audio formats: MP3 DVD-MP3 max 320kbit/s MP3 long filename MP3 ID3 TAG WMA				Other features: More information Region code free hack here Google this player.
	DVD Media comments for this DVD Player (click on the link to read the comments)
	1 BeAll 1xDVD-R (BeAll G00001) comments, 0 plays 1 dont play. 1 Fujifilm 8xDVD+R (YUDEN000T02) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. 1 Fujifilm 8xDVD-R (ProdiscF01..) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. 1 Generic/Unbranded 4xDVD-R (ONIDTECH....) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. 1 GQ (Great Quality) 8xDVD+R (SONY....D11) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. 2 KHypermedia 4xDVD+R (CMC MAG.F01) comments, 2 plays 0 dont play. 1 Maxell 4xDVD+R (RICOHJPNR01) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. 1 Memorex 4xDVD+R (RICOHJPNR01) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. 1 Memorex 16xDVD-R (CMC MAG. AM3) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. 1 Memorex 16xDVD-R (RITEKF1.....) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. 1 Newegg.com 4xDVD-R (RITEKG04....) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. 1 Optimum 2.4xDVD+R (CMC MAG.R01) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. 1 Philips 2.4xDVD+R (CMC MAG.R01) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. 1 Philips 8xDVD+R (CMC MAG.E01) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. 1 Philips 8xDVD-R (CMC MAG. AE1) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. 1 Princo 4xDVD-R (PRINCO......) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. 1 ProMedia 8xDVD+R (SONY....D11) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. 1 Radius 4xDVD+R (OPTODISCOR4) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. 1 RiData 8xDVD+R (RITEK...R03) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. 1 RiData 4xDVD-R (RITEKG04....) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. 1 Sony 4xDVD+R (RICOHJPNR01) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. 1 StarLogic 1xDVD-R (PRINCO......) comments, 0 plays 1 dont play. 1 Taiyo Yuden 8xDVD+R (YUDEN000T02) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. 1 Velocity 8xDVD+R (PRODISC.R03) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. 1 Verbatim DigitalMovie 4xDVD+R (MCC.....002) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. Add your DVD Media comments here
	Comments
	41 comments, Showing 1 to 25 comments  -  Next ->
	Johntarz from United States reported March 01, 2006: 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? $30 180 days 10 of 10 JPG/JPEG DVD-MP3 MP3 long filename DVD-RAM Comments: This is an Amazing player,for $100. AKA Tokia 101.Just saw on e-bay for $9.! It responds to AMW-99 region hack 9735, with drawer shut and not in setup mode. Plays everything but brillo pads.
	Lisa from United States reported February 24, 2005: 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? $? 4 days 10 of 10 DivX DVD-MPEGISO Comments: Great DVD player -- plays everything I've burned except for 1 dvd-r which turned out to be a burning problem anyhow. Really cheap for the features it has, too.. $25. Even plays the older VCDs that my (more expensive) DVD player wouldn't play.
	Jess from United States reported March 05, 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? WMA? CVD? $40 N/A 9 of 10 JPG/JPEG DVD-JPG DivX MPEGISO DVD-MPEGISO Comments: Everything I've thrown at it worked great, although the picture quality is a bit below par (what do you expect for $39?) It seems like a fairly solid unit for the price, better than my (now dead) Cyberhome. PAL->NTSC works like a charm, although sometimes it takes a bit for the disc to load. The Region Hack worked just fine. For a cheap PAL-NTSC it's perfect if the region hack works on your firmware.
	Andreas from United States reported February 21, 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? WMA? CVD? $? N/A No rating Comments: This player is currently not (region) hackable if it has firmware Subversion 0F.06.00.01 AMW has released new firmware for other players but not for this one as of yet. If you have this problem, please contact customerservice@a-mw.com and request a firmware update! For further info on the problem with this player, see http://www.cosmic450.com/mediatek/mt1379hackfault.htm and http://www.cosmic450.com/mediatek/mt1379hacksurveyresults.htm
	Mike D. Warnke from Other reported February 06, 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 WMA? CVD? $80 N/A 8 of 10 MP3 long filename MP3 ID3 TAG DivX MPEGISO Comments: Had to exchange for another player, because it kept freezing up. Second one also. Went back to my Mintek 1600.
	Alex from Other reported January 11, 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 WMA? CVD? $30 N/A 8 of 10 JPG/JPEG MP3 long filename MPEGISO Comments: The rating is 8 out of 10 in regards to price/performance/features/quality ratio. First of all, the things I don't like: 1. The video quality isn't too great. The colors are kind of messed up. Some movies look OK, others aren't too great. I haven't found a good way to adjust color balance. 2. There is no 1-frame forward feature - only slow playback. Slow playback cannot be activated from the pause. Rewind and Fast Forward cannot be activated from the pause. 3. Zoom can be 2x, 3, 4x - but then there is also 1/2x, 1/3x, 1/4x - what's the use of that? It's kind of annoying to have to flip through all of those modes. Now to the parts I love (and the reason I gave this player 8 out of 10 rating): 1. It plays unauthored MPEG1/2 files from your CDs and DVDs. I have several TV tuner cards that can capture MPEG2. So what I do is capture TV in MPEG2 on my computer. After that I copy the MPEG2 files to a DVD+RW (with my DVD burner) - and tada! I don't have to make my MPEG2 SVCD or DVD compiant. The only problem I saw so far - MPEG files need to be less than 1GB in size! If you MPEG files are more than 1GB in size, you will only be able to view the first 1GB of the file. Also, not all of the MPEG files will show up if you have files more than 1GB in size. So cut you MPEG before trying to play it. There is a free utility at http://mpgtx.sourceforge.net/, and someone mentioned MPEG2Cut? There are some commercial utilities you may want to check out including TMPGenc and Womble MPEG2VCR. 2. Playing JPEG pictures from any CD/DVD is pretty cool, too. There is nothing special to do. Just copy the files as is. This is very nice! 3. It plays all my DVD-Rs, DVD+Rs, DVD-RWs, DVD+RWs, VCDs, SVCDs, etc. Never tried CVDs or XVCDs. 4. It fast forwards/rewinds at 32x. Nice feature to examine a DVD(-/+R) to make sure there are no defects. Also nice to zip through commercials in my recorded TV shows (recorded on my computer - see item 1 above). So the summary is - some very cool features, very cheap, but not great video quality. If this player will last over a year - I will be very satisfied. As someone mentioned - this makes a very nice second DVD player that can play about anything you can think of. Use a nice one (Pioneer, etc.) for good quality playback for everything else.
	Tim from Other reported January 05, 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? WMA? CVD? $? N/A No rating Comments: Just to add to a review I did a few months ago. I've loved this unit for the past few months, however I happen to plug in my Panasonic RV32 I've had in the closet for some time and was shocked at the video quality difference. The colors and clarity of the Panasonic blows away the AMW. A Panasonic, Sony or other named brand is going to have a lot better video quality. Now I use my Panasonic 95% of the time and only use the AMW for disks the Panasonic won't play. Just goes to show you get what you pay for.
	Gregg from Other reported December 28, 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 320kbit/s WMA? CVD? $30 N/A 9 of 10 JPG/JPEG DVD-MP3 MP3 long filename MP3 ID3 TAG Comments: I love this player! This is my third DVD player and I can't believe the amount of features it has for the price. My favorite thing are the JPEG features, the V101 is great for viewing pics from you camera on the TV. I shoot all of my pictures in a 4-megapixel format; the player plays them flawlessly and quickly. One great thing is that you can rotate or flip pics while viewing if you forgot to do so before you burnt the disc. JPG-DVDs work but only to a point. You must put the JPEGs into folders of about 200 each. Then you can only view a slideshow of what is in that folder. MP3-CDs work great too! There is only one problem I have with them, if you would like to skip a song you must use the menu on screen. The forward button is used for a next page feature. I tried to make a DVD-MP3 disc and was very disappointed. DVD-R videos have all worked for me, every brand I have tried. The down side is that it is hard to tell what will work on other machines. I bought this for about $33 after a rebate originally. A couple of weeks I saw a returned one at Circuit City and snatched it up for $25. Unbelievable! I paid $500 for my first DVD player 5 years ago. Great Player for next to nothing but don't expect the world, this is a $30 player for god's sake.
	Jim from Other reported December 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 WMA? CVD? $50 N/A 8 of 10 JPG/JPEG Comments: So far it has played everything I have thrown at it.. DVD-RW/+RW, MP3, various brands, even el-cheapo CompUSA DVD's. Only negative is that it has no composite audio out or optical out; just two audio out, one video out and one svideo out. On screen menu very intuitive. Can't see how you can beat it for only $34.99 + tax. I have an expensive Sony 5 disc DVD player that will play DVD-/+RW and cd-audio but won't touch MP3's or SVCD or CDR. I'll continue to test it out with other stuff and update the rating.
	Pete from Other reported December 17, 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? $40 N/A 9 of 10 JPG/JPEG Comments: This unit also plays CDG incase if you don't know. Karaoke singers will love this feature. Too bad, Circuit City is not selling this product anymore.
	shana from Other reported November 26, 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? $50 N/A 9 of 10 Comments: i've been able to play vcd and svcds on tdk, sony, fujifilm, valuedisk cdrw 650 mb, tdk crdw 700 mb, and audiobahn cdr's. i hate the audiobahn and sony cdr's they play ok but scratch very easily. i paid $35 at circuit city. i bought one for me and one for my best friend. the only thing i haven't been able to play consistently is mpeg's not in vcd or svcd format. (is that called unauthored?) i would recommend to anyone especially for the price. i have no real complaints.
	skulL_hAmMeR from Other reported November 22, 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? $50 N/A 9 of 10 Comments: The V101 is a great DVD unit. I bought it mainly to perform PAL/NTSC conversion, which it does flawlessly. I have had no problems what so ever with this player. It plays all my VCD's, SVCDs, DVD-R's. I have used the following DVD-R media without a problem: compusa (1x princo and optodisc) & verbatim 2X, Also plays verbatim DVD+R. They were all burned with my Sony DRU510A, using DVDdecrypter or CopytoDVD. It has played everything I have thrown at it so far, my vcd/svcd's are on dozens of different cd-r media. The fast forward/rewind works cool with the 2x, 4x, etc.. my older Pioneer players don't work like that. The only complaint I can give it would be there is no LCD panel on the front to show you any information (but that aint all that important i guess) Purchased at Circuit City in So. Cal. for $35, so I didn't have much to loose. I went back to get another one, and it looks like they don't sell this unit anymore. Buy one if you can find one!!
	Manoj from Other reported November 07, 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 8 of 10 Comments: Well I liked it when I got it, as I burned VCD 2.0 with menu and that didn't play in lot of players I tried, and it played. But now I have a problem. When I play DVD I notice brightness fluctuation. Sometime brightness goes up and some time it goes down and become dark and goes up again. I don't have S video cable so I can't try that. Is there is any setting I need to do ? The manual never explain what each set up items means. Also, in set up, under General, TV display is disabled ( why ? is this normal) not only that I can never go to Preference Setup, after video, the control come back to general set up ( is this normal too ?). I may exchange and get another one.
	nailzer from Other reported November 01, 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 MP3 long filename Comments: In my tests I used a Memorex 700meg/80min CD-RW, and a Ritek 2.4 DVD+RW burned with Nero 5.5.10.50. I ran the NTSC SVCD tests and could not get menus, subtitles or any alternate audio tracks to work. I have not tried SVCD menus made with Nero yet. Doing the SVCD PAL test Subtitles and both sound tracks played correctly. I found that really odd considering I'm in the USA. The user guide totally SUX, but what do you expect for $35.00
	laonu from Other reported October 30, 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: Region code 6 DVD (made in China) is the only one on hand that worked right out of box, not sure about other regions except region code 1. Here is what being dispalyed by hitting 1379 while in the setup screen: Version 0F.06.00.01 Sub-Ver 06.11.22.06 8032 03.01.06.04 Servo 00.00.F6.57 Risc 02.01.06.04 DSP 02.03.01.58 Region Code 1 Hope this info will help.
	AMW fan from Other reported October 29, 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 320kbit/s WMA? CVD? $? N/A 9 of 10 JPG/JPEG MP3 long filename MP3 ID3 TAG DivX MPEGISO Comments: I would give it 10 if it was region free. I tested mine out with Region 2 DVD. It would say wrong region. However, if you continously press 1, it will play, but you lose all remote+button control. So basically you can't plan any Region 2 movies or scroll around the menus. Pure and simple shame. To the person that said it worked right out of box. Can you press 1379 on your remote while in Setup and tell everyone here what region does it display? Thanks.
	laonu from Other reported October 29, 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: This a reply to whom asked how to play region 6 DVDs. It worked out of the box, I didn't do anything with it. However, I did verify that the DVD was region 6 by using SmartRipper/ffdshow, which I could not play it on my $300 Sony/Panasonic DVD players.
	sanjay from Other reported October 24, 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? $? N/A 10 of 10 Comments: Pretty Good. My 300$ Toshiba Player does not play VCD, SVCD but this 35$ one does. Does any body know about region code hack for this ? On the box, it says that this player has been built for region code 1 but I am not sure whether this is locked for Region code 1. Did any body tried other region code DVD.
	steel from Other reported October 23, 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: my amw v101 keep coming up "no disk" I opened up the dvd player the two long rods inside that slide the laser back and forth came off I put them back in thier place and the machine came right on and started playing anything I put in it. you must take the cover off and go inside to do this.
	Jeff from Other reported October 23, 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: Can anyone give me advice on how to play region 2 dvd's on this machine? Thanks.
	Doctor Morbius 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? $50 N/A 10 of 10 MP3 long filename MP3 ID3 TAG Comments: Just bought one of these at Circuit City for $35 plus local taxes. So far it's played back Princo 1x DVD-R, RiTEK 1x DVD-R and TDK 2x DVD-R movies. The TDK media doesn't even work in my Brother's $220 Sony progressive scan multi-format DVD player. I've also tested it with CMC Magnetics and Taiyo Yuden CD-R media for SVCD and MP3 playback. It has a nice on-screen viewer for MP3 navigation too. It looks similar to Windows Explorer. The unit looks pretty cheap but for $35 I'm not expecting it to have a BMW logo on it. It works. And better yet, it supports many different formats including DVD-MP3 and DVD-Audio. The only thing that it doesn't seem to support is DivX and it's a single disc unit. I can live with that, especially for 35 smackers!!
	Letus from Other reported October 20, 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: Can user laonu tell us how you play region 6 PAL with AMW v101? Thanks a lot!
	jaymerkramer from Other reported October 20, 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? $50 N/A 8 of 10 JPG/JPEG DVD-MP3 MP3 long filename MP3 ID3 TAG DivX MPEGISO Comments: Played mp3's on a dvd+rw that I just dragged and dropped using Nero, same with Jpeg's. Even reads directory stuctures on a data cd rom. wouldn't play back video files created with windows movie maker(didn't think it would) Does play back mpeg-2's that I just dragged and dropped on to a cd-rw. Great picture quality for $34.00 dollar price payed at circuit city.
	sriramgopalan from Other reported October 14, 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? $50 N/A 10 of 10 MPEGISO Comments: Plays everything. Very compact. Remote is functional but not very intuitive. Other than that, excellent for the price. Plays all formats that I tried, including MPEGs burned to dvd! Highly recommended. Bought for $40 at CircuitCity.
	me101 from Other reported October 13, 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? $50 N/A 2 of 10 JPG/JPEG MP3 long filename MP3 ID3 TAG Comments: Basic DVD player, no component. Remote is basic but functional. Played vcd/svcd, BUT some SVCD's had audio/video skip, burned sd-6 enterprise 3x04 and very blocky picture, settled down after a few mins. My backup of 2fast 2furious on svcd CD-R had major audio/video sync problems. Picture defects on some svcd's blurry tones at times. Played ISO CD's that had mpg files recorded on them, no problem. Some neat features with DVD player, 32x FF/REW, and skip works on some vcd/svcd's, zoom is 4x, not bad. Menu system ok, sometimes stalls in the middle of playing vcd/svcd's whilst you change contrast/brightness. Paid $40 at Circuit City, bringing back to them today as it faulters on my svcd backup's of my DVD collection.
	41 comments, Showing 1 to 25 comments  -  Next ->
1 DVD Player hits, Showing 1 to 1 DVD Players  -
Column Explanation Click on this for more technical information. New comments= New comments since your last visit. New Player = New DVD Player since your last vist. CDR Few CDR CDR CDR? This medium works This medium works on some few media/brands, read the comments for more tips. This medium does not work This medium is not tested VCD VCD VCD? This feature is supported This feature is not supported This feature is not tested ? kbit/s The maximum allowed bitrate for the above feature Price Info The price, remember that it is our user that report the price More detailed technical informations from either manufacturer sites, review sites or stores. Rating The first rating is based on a weighted rank (the true Bayesian), it requires at least 5 votes to get a weighted rating. The second rating between the () is a normal average rating Reports Total reports, click on view reports to view them and add to post your own report and comments We can Not gurantee that this list is 100% correct and don't forget to read the user comments for more info about each player.