Pioneer DV-383 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
Pioneer DV-383 Chipset: MediaTek MT1389FE	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	$80	8.6/10 14 votes	View 14 reports (27419 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: Progressive Scanning Visit manufacturer's site Region code free hack here Google this player.
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	1 Cursor 16xDVD-R (GSC005......) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. 1 Moser Baer Pro 16xDVD-R (MBI 01RG40..) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. 1 Panasonic 2xBD-R (MEI...T01) comments, 0 plays 1 dont play. 1 Verbatim (DataLifePlus) 2.4xDVD+R (MKM.....001) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. Post your DVD Media comments here
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	GangstaRap from Israel reported March 26, 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? $125 over 1 year 9 of 10 JPG/JPEG DVD-JPG DVD-MP3 DivX XviD MPEGISO DVD-MPEGISO Comments: Have you ever fell in love with a DVD Player? cause i did!!! I have this DVD over a year now and so far it works like i bought it yesterday... This DVD gives a new title to DVD players! so simple, such a good quality (video and audio). It plays anything! i won't be sorprised if i'll stick a leminated wood in the eject tray and it'll play it! The fact that i bought this DVD a year ago (in Israel) and it still chewing a lot other devices today brought me rate it relly high. Though you might be askin' yourself why i rated it 9 instead of 10... well.. nobody perfect... to specify few things that bothers me: the notorious Packed-Bitstream (P-B) issue! it seems like this DVD's chip have a problem playin' a Packed-Bitstream (P-B) video... when you'll try to play P-B video it'll look like you're playin' a 10 PFS movie (not everyone will sensed). tolerable, but still very annoying! well i think i'll be really petty mentionin' that, but anyway - when loading disc it a little bit slower then other devices... besides those two limitations - i'm really happy with my DVD.
	cyclopathic from United States reported February 03, 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? $90 over 1 year 9 of 10 DivX XviD Comments: Pros: - good picture quality, - handles AVI and OGM containers. - handles video stream with Qpel, - packed bitstreams and even - GMC w/2 points - handles .srt and other external subtitles. - good DVD compatibility, reads questionable disks Yes it has a few problems: - the file menu is too short; need to get patched firmware to have extended file names - has synchronization problems in .AVIs with VBR audio stream - freezes on 3-point GMC (you can't encode GMC Xdiv) - doesn't play embedded subtitles. - 480p only, no 720p - doesn't play Hdef MPEG-4s Overall nice inexpensive player, plays ~80% of anime out there w/o re-encoding and after patching firmware you can keep long file names, recommend!
	sixsixtysix from United States reported January 06, 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? $100 300 days 10 of 10 JPG/JPEG DVD-JPG DVD-MP3 MP3 ID3 TAG DivX XviD Comments: have owned for 10 months now and is still as good as it ever was. plays nearly everything. am thinking of getting another or the newer 393, but need to find the differences first. word.
	PhilTokyo from Thailand reported October 14, 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? $80 7 days 8 of 10 DivX Comments: Great player ! Plays anything I have tried, and region free. Problem is : PAL DVDs do not display on my (NTSC only) TV. This player is supposed to have a PAL->NTSC converter, but I could not find the menu in the options to force the output to NTSC, and the user's manual (in Thai) was not helpful ! Where is this hidden menu ? Can someone help ?
	Simon from Venezuela reported August 15, 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? $100 7 days 6 of 10 DVD-MP3 DivX Comments: I have a problem. Some movies are shown in color and some others in black and white. I was told it was the type of media, but i found it's not. What could it be? I need help with that.... My email simon216@cantv.net Thanks
	RoConde from Chile reported May 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? $100 1 days 9 of 10 DVD-MP3 DivX XviD MPEGISO Comments: It's a very good DVD player.... and really cheap (but very hard to find here in Chile, only 2 major retailers carries Pioneer here). I have tried a few disks and works really fine. Very good PAL to NTSC conversion (but remember to set your player to NTSC mode if you want to see correctly that discs on an only NTSC TV). A bit better than my old Philips 642. Multizone out of the box. On the store I'll tried it with an 50" plasma screen.... very good quality of image, and the sound too. If you can find it, buy it!
	Xxcalibur from United States reported March 14, 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? $100 30 days 8 of 10 DivX XviD MPEGISO DVD-MPEGISO Comments: hey nathan...that guy at J&R is a freak...the dvd player supports BOTH PAL and NTSC dvds, u change the setting on the DVD player, Not the TV. it will play fine on your tv's... i have a 50" sony 3LCD and it plays everything great...EXCEPT for really high resolution Divx/Xvid rips..and it doesnt play straight mpegs on a cd or dvd (no authoring)thats the only down sides of this player.the philips 642 can play straight mpegs off a cd or dvd. The max res i used for divx/xvid was 624*416..i think anything higher than 740 wont play but i cannot confirm this..just tried this: 960x528.... and it didnt work..all you get us the audio and no video. hope this helps
	zapp from United States reported January 30, 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? $100 21 days 10 of 10 JPG/JPEG DVD-JPG DivX XviD MPEGISO DVD-MPEGISO Chipset: MediaTek MT1389EE Comments: I just returned a Phillips 642 and got a Pioneer DV-383 instead. The main reason was that a lot of Divx and Xvid files I have wouldn't play propperly on the 642 (yes, even after the stop-menu-play workaround). And doing the FF/RW thing to fix audio synch issues got old REALLY fast. Another reason is that even w/ modded firmware, you can't see much of the file name in the disk menu, so it's impossible to tell the difference between similarly named files. And the remote wouldn't work from across the room- I had to be right in front of the player. The DV-383 plays everything I have (including QPel and GMC w/ 1 warp point). The picture quality is better w/ Divx and Xvid files than the 642 (I did a direct comparison) and NO audio synch issues. With a modded firmware you can see the whole file name (unless it's really long). The overall build quality is better, the remote is excellent, and it has controls right on the front, so you don't need the remote for most things if you are right there putting in the DVD. Since this is based on the Mediatek 1389 EE, there is a huge user base for firmware mods. With a modded firmware from a DV-575a it will also support SACD and DVD-A. Oh, and it's region-free out of the box. It's available in Europe as the DV-380. Highly recommended. Check out this thread- hxxp://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=98228 And this forum hxxp://board.softpedia.com/index.php?showforum=24 Amazon has them for $99
	Severity from United States reported January 29, 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? $? 90 days 10 of 10 JPG/JPEG DivX XviD Comments: Great player, plays everything I've put in. Does PAL/NTSC. Much better than the Phillips 642.
	Mr_Disc from Israel reported November 22, 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? $175 7 days 9 of 10 DivX XviD Chipset: MediaTek MT1389?? Comments: Although the spec sheet don't mention avi support on DVD +/- R media - this player plays avis burnt to DVD media. Plays CD-RW flawlessly. Doesn't recognize ipx subtitle files.
	Rob from Australia reported October 22, 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 CBR WMA? CVD? $? 3 days 8 of 10 DVD-MP3 MP3 ID3 TAG DivX XviD Comments: This is the second Pioneer DVD that I have bought. Works quiet well. Has a few issues with some DVD that have been "copied". These ones also had a problem on my other DVD so I reckon that is more a case of bad DVD media and/or copying than bad DVD Player. Great little unit that looks cool too !
	Rafael André from Brazil reported October 10, 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 CBR WMA CBR CVD? $? 7 days 9 of 10 JPG/JPEG DVD-JPG DVD-WMA DVD-MP3 MP3 long filename DivX XviD MPEGISO DVD-MPEGISO Comments: Very good player, with a lot of features!! I just missed 2 things: karaoke function and capability to play XVID with packed bitstream, but this little problem can ber easily solved with MPEG4Modifier (www.moitah.net). And sometimes the subtitles of DIVX/XVID movies "disappears" when you navigate through the movie. Good interactive menus, and easy remote control interface. In despite of such little problems, I recommend it!
	Constantine Juanis from Malaysia reported September 25, 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? $90 7 days 8 of 10 JPG/JPEG DivX Comments: Quite okay. Watched 4 movies in a row (DVD9) and no prob.
	morsaus from Argentina reported September 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? $175 30 days 8 of 10 JPG/JPEG DVD-JPG DVD-MP3 MP3 long filename DivX XviD Comments: No comments
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