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Arianet DVD-2255 |
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 Garch from Other reported October 23, 2003: |
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DVD-R
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DVD-R DL? |
DVD+R
DVD+RW?
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BD-RE?
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$90 |
N/A |
9 of 10 |
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Good Points
Auto Multi-region. No hack required!
DVD/DVD-/+R/SVCD/VCD1.1-3.0/CDA/CD-R/-RW/MOV./JPEG(with sub-directory)/MP3
Dolby 5.1AC3 with DTS decoder/outputs
Scart with RGB/YUV
S-Video/Coaxial/Optical/VGA output
Progressive Scan
HDCD
Slim line player
Karaoke function
Includes scart and audio cables
Bad Points
Single Scart socket
Poor remote layout
Indifferent styling of unit
Differcult JPEG slideshow menu access
This is Aria’s (www.aria.co.uk) own branded dvd player retailing between £69-£75. I purchased mine from http://www.ukdvd.co.uk/ for a penny under £70 (inc. p&p) and was delivered to me promptly via CityLink within 48hrs (placed order at 1600hrs).
Opening the package was great! As you may or may not know I recently gave my comments regarding the Ronin P703 player which I forgot to mention was like a house brick in size (which was returned due to a number of problems – see review).
This machine measured just over 5cm in thickness and about 40cm in length. On ejecting the DVD tray you find that it is situated slightly toward the left, which might put some people off.
Turning the unit around and you find a wide range of audio and video connections. There’s an S-video, coaxial and a single scart socket which is a bit disappointing, but then at the price you really can’t moan about it too much. As a bonus there is a VGA output to connect to a computer monitor, which I have never encountered before on any DVD unit. This might be very useful for those with projection units so you can show your films with, or using a TFT monitor.
As well as that there are Dolby 5.1/DTS outputs and separate L & R audio outputs as well as optical and composite.
Picture quality is sharp and clear on my 28” TV (using a gold scart cable). Via the menu system you can have S-video/YUB/RGB picture output. S-video shows very vivid, sharp pictures (almost a little too sharp), were as RGB out give excellent colour saturation and depth (almost too saturated in colour).
Something slightly odd occurred whilst testing this unit. With the TV connected via scart in S-Video you seem to lose approximately 5-6cm of the total picture to the left of the screen. This was corrected in RGB mode, but it’s something to be aware of. Otherwise picture quality is excellent with the option within the setup menu to default to particular picture outputs i.e., film, smart, ssmart (?).
Sound output is on par with the MIRR-110 (http://www.reviewcentre.com/reviews4962.html). Good clear crisp sound with not too much bass using my Medion 5.1 speaks (450 pmpo) and vocal output clear and punchy. There is a karaoke function with 2 6.5mm microphone input jacks which I haven’t tested and will probably never will!
One of the most outstanding aspects of this player is in its ability to play any region disk without the need for particular region remote hackz to be inputted first. I tested this feature using an original region 1 “When We Were Soldiers” disk which I know to have RCE. After about 5 seconds the screen flickered and the Universal logo appeared!
This is real coup for Arianet since some people might find it difficult remembering which codes or sequence to hack their DVD player via remote. My mother being one of those people that I’m thinking of!
This is just as well since the remote although not as horrible as the Ronin or Acoustic Solutions DVD players it is still poorly laid out, for example. The fast forward/rewind keys are along the bottom rows which are difficult to access. Plus the blue centre “enter” key does not actually activate the disk to play; the play button is along the second from bottom row of buttons. There is however a dedicated button switching between 5.1 & 2 channel sound which I find useful, but I am nick picking here since the remote response reasonably well with a wide pick up angle my the main unit.
Some people have mentioned that the main unit has a very bright and distracting LED display. I have not found this a problem although I can see the blue LED light indicating the on/off switch might be distracting since it is as bright as a key ring LED’s.
Conclusion
This is a great machine with plenty of connection options with a good clear picture output and crisp clean sound. The multi-region ready to go system is a real bonus and the whole built quality of the machine is solid with positive response from operating the buttons on the unit.
You could almost say it was the perfect machine except for the lack of DivX (which is variable in quality) and the ability to play Quicktime files which would be great to watch all those videos on CD singles, but I believe it’s an issue with Macintosh and copyright so it’s unlikely to be a feature coming soon. I can’t comment on Macrovision since I haven’t tested for it but I will assume that that operation is still functioning.
I would recommend this player to anyone looking at either first time buying, upgrading their current model or looking for a second player. I really do not see the point in buying a £200+ player which is R2 only just for the reassurance of a “named” brand.
This player has been reviewed by comparing with Acoustics Solutions 421, Mirror MIRR-110, Ronin P703 all at reviewcentre.co.uk |
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| Keith from Other reported August 29, 2003: |
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$? |
N/A |
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Just got this player today, it seems to play everything I throw at it but its gonna have to be returned because the overbright output burns out light areas on my sony vega tv turning pure white to light yellow and posterising other light areas.
The output was ok to a vga monitor (had to turn down contrast though) and ok to a philips tv which after reducing contrast didnt seem to loose any detail in bright areas.
The menu system is ok but very basic. The menu used for mp3 selection is a nightmare and never seems to do what you want. The picture viewing menu isnt too much better but you get from 25% to 200% zoom so you can view fairly high resolution jpg's of around 2000-3000 pixels and they will still fit on screen (not checked the exact amount but should be roughly about that) and you can zoom in a lot to see fine detail.
The manual isnt of much use and has incorrect bits but eventually most of the navigation of pics and mp3 can be worked out.
Apart from the over bright output and grotty navigation of pics and mp3 files its a good player for the price. (love the vga output..... hate the macrovision) |
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| marvel2020 from Other reported April 25, 2003: |
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7 of 10 |
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Just got one of these players of Ebay.co.uk Auctions for £78.00 to replace my Cyberhome AD-L528 which would not power on anymore and was well out of gaurantee:(.
Anyway plays all Region DVD's, VCD's SVCD,s DVD-R's and DVD-VCD.
But it will not play DVD-R's burnt using NERO's DVD-VIDEO option, which is unfortunate for me because I have at least 10 or so discs which where Burnt this way :(, The Cyberhome play them all perfectly.
"USE PRASSI or RECORD NOW MAX TO BURN TO DVD-R"
It will play DVD-VCD, which i authored using DVD Maestro.
Someone else stated that the Video out is to bright, which it is, but i got round this by connecting it through 1 of my VCR's Scart Socket which is suppose to be for Satalite Decoders and switching the VCR to AV2, this tone the brightness down a good bit but the VCR must remain on when using the DVD player for this to work.
It also has a VGA connector on it for hooking it up to your PC monitor.
7 out of 10 is what i'm giving it becasue of the problems i've stated. |
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| Pariah from Other reported April 11, 2003: |
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$? |
N/A |
5 of 10 |
JPG/JPEG
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| Played everything I put in it VCD/SVCD wise, authored or not. Picture quality is distinctly average compared to other cheap players I've seen, sound is good though and its region free "out of the box". As one of the other reviewers has mentioned there is a problem with the display on this model, it seems many people experience the flickering power led and loss of counter display etc during playback. In adddition to those problems my front panel buttons frequently decide not to work. I'm having severe difficulties in getting a replacement from Aria, they seem to think that its ok to have to put up wth the above mentioned faults. On balance I wouldnt advise on getting this player. |
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| Richie from Other reported February 22, 2003: |
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$? |
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| No Major problems so far, however I cant get it to be macrovision free, when connected to my video annd i play a normal dvd the picture rolls, when i play it straight into tv its fine.......any ideas please |
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| Richard Fry from Other reported February 12, 2003: |
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$? |
N/A |
9 of 10 |
JPG/JPEG
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| adam from Other reported January 31, 2003: |
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$? |
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1 of 10 |
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i know this player is well rated and cheap BUT i have returned 4 of the damn things...
yes they do everything even tho the interfaces are cheap crap.
these are the problems i have had:
1 blue led fickering on and off
2 display flickering
3 this is the main one: dvd playback image rolls and jumps did this on vcd's too and NO it wasnt the disc or authoring as they play fine on other cheap players.
maybe other people put up with stuff like this but i dont see the point of having dvd if the image is not excellent quality and i dont see the point of creating a quality vcd if u can't play it back properly.
cheers
Adam
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| Angelo Squitieri from Other reported January 29, 2003: |
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| The only gripe I hae is that I've tried to use an All-In-One remote control unit to replace the handset of this and lots of other devices I have but found that there were no codes for this device yet ! |
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| Eddie Orzechowski from Other reported January 19, 2003: |
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$125 |
N/A |
8 of 10 |
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My first DVD player - both picture and sound seem great to me (nothing to compare with however)
Plays almost everything I have tried DVD region 1, 2 and 4 - Home made VCD, SVCD, MP3, raw Mpeg-1 and Mpeg-2 files on CD-R, Kodak picture CD , raw Jpeg picture files on CD-R
(did not play a VCD 2.0 which I had made by mistake with an MPEG-2 file - which plays on another DVD player and on WinDVD PowerDVD)
ONLY COMPLAINT - contrast is too high on video output - so that the TV needs adjusting between standard TV/VCR use and DVD use (?? can this be adjusted in the player) so high it sometimes (rare occasions) results in picture distortion (e.g. betwen band of light sky and dark foreground)
Manual poor - MP3 and Jpeg picture navigation menus not very helpful or easy to use
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| Stephen Cole from Other reported January 02, 2003: |
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$125 |
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8 of 10 |
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I brought this DVD player a few days ago and so far i've been very happy with its features and performance (indeed the only complaint I have is with how bright the led indicating that the power is on is too bright).
It plays everything i've thrown at it (VCD,SVCD, Data cd with MP3).
This DVD player comes out of the box multi-region and its macro vision is disabled (no messing around with codes).
However perhaps the most important feature for me was the automatic conversion of NTSC to PAL internally as I have a PAL only tv and have found that finding a multi-region player easy but one that supports ntsc conversion was difficult to find.
It's also good value for money considering what it plays and as it has both DTS and AC3 decoders built in and has progressive scan for a sharper display via the yuv connectors or to a standard PC SVGA monitor (via the VGA connector on the Arian DVD player).
For just £85 I couldn't find a better DVD player with this much bang for your buck! |
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| Stuart Davis from Other reported December 27, 2002: |
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$125 |
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9 of 10 |
MP3 long filename
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| has more or less played everything i have thrown at it. cheap green spindle cds are taken care of with ease and it played the lot. it has played non-authored VCD files and has an output on teh back for everysingle video and audio connection you could think of (even 5.1 and a VGA output) - would reccomend this player to anyone, particularly at £85. only problem is the slightly crappy remote control and unhelpful manual. |
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| thomas from Other reported November 27, 2002: |
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$? |
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7 of 10 |
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great player not too picky about media types, not bad for under £90.
ps all the reviewers for this player other than me work for aria hmmmm |
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| Fuzz from Other reported October 14, 2002: |
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$125 |
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8 of 10 |
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| Multiregion very good for the price plays lots of formats. mp3 support supports 10 characters for filenames. Is sometimes a bit slow recognising discs especially CDRW. |
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| Mario from Other reported October 08, 2002: |
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$150 |
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9 of 10 |
DVD-MP3
MP3 long filename
MP3 ID3 TAG
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Used a Kodak 4x CDRW, Memorex 16x CDR, Datasafe DVD-RW and Bulkpaq DVD-R without problems. Haven't checked all the mp3 playback rates yet.
Best test was an SVCD-ready mpeg file (i.e. not authored, just a file), 3 VCD mpeg files and 30 mp3 files on one DVD-RW - it played the lot and allowed skipping from file to file, no probs! If it had ID3/long filename support it would be perfect (oh, and DivX playback but nothing else does yet, does it?)
Also has component output for fancy TVs :-)
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| dennis from Other reported September 30, 2002: |
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$150 |
N/A |
10 of 10 |
JPG/JPEG
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| you dont need to hack it its already region free & macro disabled,also plays hdcd its a replacement for my dansai 852 which broke..best player on the market for £90 |
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