Curtis DVD1084 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
Curtis DVD1084 Chipset: Sunplus SPHE82???	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	$5	6.2/10 11 votes	View 13 reports (21390 views) Post report
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	Video formats: VCD SVCD DivX XviD JPG, DVD-JPG MPEGISO DVD-MPEGISO Audio formats: MP3 DVD-MP3 MP3 long filename WMA				Other features: USB Memory Card Reader Visit manufacturer's site Region code free hack here Google this player.
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	jasonlaronde from Canada reported April 16, 2007: 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? $5 1 days No rating Comments: This unit cost me the $5 in gas it took to drive across town to pick it up for free. Unit was dead when I got it. Closer inspection of the power supply explains the problems that a lot of people are experiencing. Power supply supplies the various daugher boards and main decoder with +5V +9v -9V and +25V however it appears that the manufacturer has skimped on parts and included components that are not high enough value for the current. Although diffrent components can fail in diffrent units, I had a blown 1K 1/4w resistor on the 25v output stage and a cooked 1000uf 16V cap blown on the input stage. Heat was intense enough to brown the board. I will replace with a 1/2W resistor and a 25V Cap and report back. Often heat can cause a power supply to output strange and unusually high voltages cascading multiple system failures down the pipe... Hopefully additional components were not effected by Curtis saving 6-cents per unit...
	p_l from Canada reported December 28, 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? $40 300 days 5 of 10 JPG/JPEG DivX XviD MPEGISO DVD-MPEGISO Comments: I really liked this machine's features for the price, but sadly mine too has just died. All I get now is the little red flashing light. I emailed Curtis and will report back if they can help me bring it back to life...
	cytech from Canada reported October 11, 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? $? 180 days 4 of 10 Comments: I previously reported on this player and was quite happy with it. I loved the USB port, really saved on burning quick downloads that were one time watchers (like TV episodes). If you notice the past tense, the player's power supply seemed to quit in the summer. The power light would sort of come on and glow/flicker and that was about it. I have tried to find something to replace it but USB ports seem harder to find now (especially in the $50 range)...
	Oldfart13 from Canada reported August 28, 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? $40 180 days 1 of 10 JPG/JPEG DVD-JPG DVD-MP3 DivX XviD DVD-RAM Comments: I'll have to downgrade this player tremendously....first the remote went dead last week, now the player is DEAD, DEAD, DEAD.... Less than 100 hours of use....pathetic. And it had such nice features that I could use at such a low price. Now I have to go look for something else.....
	Warlock_THR from Canada reported March 16, 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 30 days 5 of 10 DVD-MP3 MP3 long filename DivX XviD Comments: After reading on here that the Curtis was better than the Philips 642/37 for codecs I decided to get one when Canadian Tire was unloading the last of the stock. Plus the USB port I figured would be handy. Not as good as the Philips, sadly already sold the Philps so looking at an LG LDA-530. - Region free code was easy to do, though a few store bought DVDs had issues and came up saying unable to play in that region, so had to reset back to 1 to play those. Bit of a pain. - Menu was a bit messy, also converts spaces and dashes into underscores, short file names, and I have yet to figure the sorting out. If the files began with numbers it sorted fine... but if you had File 01, and File 02... half the time the order would be reversed. Not good when you have a movie split into two files and it plays the second half first. - Does not autoplay the next avi file. Does for MP3s but not for avi... bit of an annoyance again for split movies. - Month later it's now having problems with discs, hear it spinning, image stalls and stutters. - Also, had quite a few video files that worked just fine on the Philips not play at all on here, or very very glitchy and stalls a lot - Remote has no known universal remote code. Confirmed that with Curtis support Curtis support was great, questions answered in 6h via email all 3 times. Looks nice, relatively sturdy. Never got to try the USB though... all the other downfalls and now the playback issues, I'm finding the receipt to see about a return and testing out that LG LDA-530
	Aladin from Canada reported January 23, 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? $? 5 days No rating Comments: Some of you have owned a Koss 5121 DVD player. Any idea how to make it region free? Please reply to aladinl@hotmail.com Thanks a lot for sharing this info.
	cytech from Canada reported January 17, 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 4 days 8 of 10 DVD-JPG DivX XviD Comments: Great player for the money ($45CDN @ CdnTire). Tried a couple of other low priced DivX players (Centrios and Diamond Vision) and this one wins out hands down. A few people have knocked the remote but it is better than some of the other low price offerings out there. Have run a number of different brands of disk through it with no problems. Only problem so far was Unsupported Audio error on the second AVI of a split movie on DVD+RW. Computer can access it fine and reports same codec as the AVI for the first half of the movie (AC3). Will try on a few other players to see if they have an with the file.
	Hiep from Canada reported January 04, 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? $40 7 days 7 of 10 MP3 long filename DivX XviD Chipset: Sunplus SPHE82??? Comments: Pros: -USB2.0 support -Cheap (especially when Canadian Tire has them for $39.93CDN plus taxes) -plays all divx/xvid I threw at it even Qpel ones. -has karaoke feature (mic inputs) Cons: -no divx/xvid subtitle support (i.e. srt, sub, ssa, etc.) -does not automatically downmix 5.1 to stereo when only using L/R. You must select in menu and when you do use 5.1 with amp, you have to change settings again. -has problem with some AC3 codecs files. It may be something to do with out of sync sound/video. The thing is that these files works great on my LG530 and KOSS5121 You can't beat the price. If you don't mind subtitles then this player fits you well since you gain mic inputs. NOTE: subtitles work fine with regular DVD movies. For ~$40CDN you can't go wrong. I have owned Philips DVP642, Koss 5121, LG 530 and now the Curtis. It can't beat the LG or Koss (though come close if it has subtitles). It is a better buy than the Philips for sure. I give it a 7 for lack of divx/xvid subtitles, AC3 bug, and USB2.0 seem to be not fully compatible with all HD enclosure/drive combination. USB keys works fine.
	stefan popescu from Canada reported January 02, 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? $60 3 days 7 of 10 JPG/JPEG DVD-MP3 MP3 long filename DivX Chipset: Sunplus SPHE82??? Comments: Got it for 59$ at Canadian Tire. The chipset is Sunplus SPHE8281D. Have previously bought the Yahoo YDP530 at Walmart for the same price. Menus look the same on both so I guess they use the same chipset (the YDP530 has a heatsink attached to the processor so I can't confirm that for sure). Bad: - no long filename support. Good: - USB host
	jazzy from Canada reported January 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? $40 30 days 8 of 10 JPG/JPEG MP3 long filename DivX XviD MPEGISO Comments: Bought at canadian tire 50$. Not bad for the price. Much better than Koss player from same store, that couldn't read any divx files without crashing and has no USB slot (Koss has different chipset and menu options). Curtis DVD1084 - Nice options in setup menu, incl audio out spdif/raw setup, entire speaker setup menu, center delay etc., digital out setup menu, not that I would ever use these... - Region free procedure is simple: open tray then press 9735 to display special menu and then select region 0. - The kicker is having SD card slot and usb input on front. I use USB flash drive instead of burning a disc from PC. - DVD and mpeg playback from dvd+r good. - remote has mute and volume control but otherwise sucks. remote and unit design is 15 years ago cheap import build but who cares. Seems fairly solid. - quite a few conections on back incl. optical for sound and home theater outs - Firmware wishes (not gonna happen mind you): SD card glitches for FF RW and goto (maybe just my card though), and problem reading large USB HDD - Seems to read Divx 3 ok. Please confirm esp. action scenes. Flash memory / USB Drive Divx/Xvid read tests: ============================================== 1. Best solution for flash memory is USB2 flash Drive. Have tested with Cruzer mini 1GB. Works great. Reads an Xvid file well (star wars 3), fast forward and reverses all the way up to 20x no glitches, and can goto specific time in file (use goto and then arrows to highlite time). 2. Also had success with 4GB usb drive Creative Muvo2 mp3 player, but had the same quirks as SD card - see below. Had some glitches in busy scenes with explosions, e.g. playback choppy. This behavior was not found with USB flash drive. This may have to do with the speed of the Cruzer usb2 flash memory, maybe? 3. SD card (kingston 512mb): reads divx avi file OK, fast forward 2X and 4x, any higher and play stops. Cannot fast reverse - play stops. Cannot goto specific time in file. In other words, if you want to go back to a spot you left off, you will have to FF at 4x till you get there. 4. USB2 external drive (250GB in enclosure): I was really hoping it would be able to read, but no such luck. It wants to display a folder tree but then cannot. Maybe volume too large to browse. Too bad. If anyone has success, please advise size and maker of HDD and enclosure. I have Vantec Nexstar Firewire/USB2 enclosure with Hitachi 250GB standard ATA drive.
	viceroy from Canada reported December 28, 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? $? 3 days 8 of 10 JPG/JPEG MP3 long filename XviD Comments: Plays XviD video created from HDTV fine, using various audio AC-3,and Layer 3 encoded formats. Had the new yahoo dvd player YDP-530 which I returned because of poor video qaulity and major pixel proplems. The USB port in front, plays video from my 1 GiG. pencil drive and the card reader port played my SD memory card from my camera very well. Regular DVD's have pretty good video qaulity for the money this player cost me, $49.99 at Canadian Tire. Best Deal out there for a multi-format player.
	Nick from Canada reported December 28, 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? $40 7 days 8 of 10 DivX XviD Comments: No comments
	gsrrr from Canada reported November 12, 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? $40 5 days 7 of 10 JPG/JPEG DVD-JPG DVD-MP3 MP3 long filename MP3 ID3 TAG DivX XviD MPEGISO DVD-MPEGISO Comments: Good: - USB port is very nice; I can just plug in my 200 GB ext. HD - able to play S(GMC)-VOP and QuarterPixel Xvids - wma audio for avi - more mp3 sampling rates for avi (compared to Philips 642) - $49.99 CAD at Canadian Tire Bad: - no long filename support; only shows a mangled 10 characters - no SRT subtitle support - remote and player look kind of fugly Tip: Seems there is a limit to the number of files it will index. So if you have a big HD with lots of files, they won't all show up. To workaround this, you can set a directory to hidden. Then that dir and it's subdirectories and files will not be indexed. Only the root dir needs to be hidden.
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