Pioneer DV-434 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-434	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	8.8/10 46 votes	View 53 reports (23711 views) Post report
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	Video formats: VCD SVCD DivX XviD JPG, miniDVD/cDVD Audio formats: MP3 WMA				Other features: Progressive Scanning Visit manufacturer's site Region code free hack here Google this player.
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	2 Accu 1xDVD-R (LD01........) comments, 2 plays 0 dont play. 1 DupEZ 4xDVD-R (LEADDATA01..) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. 1 E3Works 4xDVD-R (LEADDATA01..) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. 1 Fortis 1xDVD-R (Auvistar....) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. 1 Fujifilm 8xDVD-R (FUJIFILM03..) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. 1 Generic/Unbranded 1xDVD-R (SONY........) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. 1 Generic/Unbranded 2xDVD-R (PRODISCG02..) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. 1 KHypermedia 1xDVD-R (TDKG02000000) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. 1 Lead Data 1xDVD-R (Lead Data) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. 1 Memorex 4xDVD+R (RICOHJPNR01) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. 1 Memorex 4xDVD-R (CMC MAG. AF1) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. 1 Memorex 16xDVD-R (RITEKF1.....) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. 1 Memorex 2.4xDVD+R (RITEK...D01) comments, 0 plays 1 dont play. 1 Monarch 4xDVD-R (VDSPMSAB 01.) comments, 0 plays 1 dont play. 1 Newegg.com 4xDVD-R (RITEKG04....) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. 1 Panasonic 2xBD-R (MEI...T01) comments, 0 plays 1 dont play. 1 Philips 2.4xDVD+R (CMC MAG.R01) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. 5 Princo 1xDVD-RW (PRINCO......) comments, 5 plays 0 dont play. 1 Sky 2xDVD-R (MXL RG01....) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. 1 Sonic 2xDVD-R (MUST 001....) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. 1 Sony 8xDVD+R (SONY....D11) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. 1 Sony 4xDVD+RW (SONY....S11) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. 1 Traxdata 2.4xDVD+R (RICOHJPNR00) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. 1 Universal 1xDVD-R (GSC001) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. 1 Verbatim (DataLifePlus) 2xDVD-R (MCC 00RG200) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. Post your DVD Media comments here
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	butch from United States reported September 19, 2005: Read features: Price: Time used: Rating: CDR CDRW Few DVD-R Few DVD-RW DVD-R DL Few DVD+R Few DVD+RW DVD+R DL BD-R? BD-RE? BD-R DL? MP3 WMA CVD? $200 over 1 year 1 of 10 JPG/JPEG DVD-JPG DVD-WMA DVD-MP3 MP3 long filename MP3 ID3 TAG DivX XviD DVD-RAM Comments: This player sucks! It never properly decoded DTS. Sound quality is atrocious. Video showed artifacts whenever film based material is displayed. 3:2 pulldown is nonexistant. The package say's progressive scan. But picture quality say's 'NO WAY'
	Saline from United States reported February 14, 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: Fujifilm DVD+R 4x media
	Baldrick from Other reported January 08, 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 DivX Comments: Doesn't play Divx/Xvid. There is no such thing as divx VCD.
	Rob Rich from Other reported December 27, 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 9 of 10 DivX Comments: plays divx VCD, audio is offset to actual
	Mistry_Man69 from Other reported December 04, 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? $90 N/A 10 of 10 MPEGISO Comments: This is a great buy, I have had it over a year and purchased it from amazon for about £79.99. Never had a problem with it and it seems to wanna play anything and everything. Haven't tried the dvd+r yet but will be doing so soon, Just got the sony DVD burner with my New PC. The player plays all regions and no region dvd's. In addition i know that it plays MP3's when you have created an MP3 cd with the correct software such as Roxio MP3 creator. What I have tried are: DVD R2, DVD R1, DVD R0, VCD, SVCD, MP3, Music CD's, Cut CD's, CUT DVD-R and DVD-RW. If you wanna chat about this player or just wanna tell me what more it can do, please feel free to drop me a mail.
	Hardy from Other reported July 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 9 of 10 Comments: Had no problems with it for over a year now.
	Nicholas Stowe from Other reported May 12, 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 9 of 10 Comments: Plays CD-Rs, VCD, SVCD and DVD-Rs with no problems.
	Dave DeMers from Other reported March 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? $100 N/A 9 of 10 Comments: Have used DVD-R and DVD-RW discs burned from different manufacturers (Memorex, Maxell, Pioneer and everything plays. Also played every SVCD and VCD I threw at it. Have had this player for over a year and never a problem with any disc burned properly. Using Pioneer A04 burner.
	Ben Richards from Other reported January 31, 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? $150 N/A 9 of 10 Comments: Datacrammers This player even ate overburned CDR's (Intenso) up to 862Mb (ooops, unintentionally burned) Lite-on 40125S Datamodus 2 (Nero 5.5.7.7) SVCD-PAL Vid2376 CBR Aud 225 48k Frame 480*576 So far no problems with any decently a90 min CDR Same experience with Pioneer 535
	Ryan Bruner from Other reported December 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? WMA? CVD $? N/A 9 of 10 Comments: Even though it doesn't play as many "non-compliant" discs as the Apex, I actually prefer my Pioneer for that very reason. I want to make discs that are going to be more compatible with other players. With the APEX machines, you can get away with a lot of stuff that won't play on anything else.
	Brian Jansen from Other reported November 20, 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: This is a good player. It can play anything I give it. However, it cuts of the first second of audio on every track on an audio CD (burned or not). This happens at the beginning of every track, unless I SKIP to another track, then it doesn't do it. This really isn't a problem, but when you know a song really well, it sounds weird not to hear the first second of the song. This may not even be the DVD player, maybe my receiver. My receiver is a Harman-Kardon AVR120 -- it is top of the line for its power rating, so for some reason I don't think it would cut off audio. Back to the DVD player...sound and picture quality is great on my Sony WEGA 27". The only thing that really does bug me about this player is that it feels cheap because it's so light, AND the tray makes a lot of noise when ejecting or going back in. This coupled with an audible noise when playing (I can still here it when the movie is playing, but only at moderate to very quiet parts of the movie). It just makes the player seem poorly made and cheap. I sit only about 5 feet from the player, so I'm sure for those of you who sit farther away or have a glass cabinet door you close, you probably can't hear the clicking when it plays. Check the forum for my question about the one-second audio thing.
	David Schultz from Other reported October 31, 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? $100 N/A 9 of 10 Comments: No comments
	Tom from Other reported September 08, 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: No comments
	Greg Hopmann from Other reported September 07, 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 miniDVD/cDVD Comments: No comments
	Macross from Other reported July 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? $80 N/A 9 of 10 Comments: I purchased this Baby on Ubid for $79.00 as a Refurbished product. I can't believe how well it played compared to my Toshiba 2109 and my Sharp. I've converted all my AVI's and Divx formats to SVCD(MPEG2) and VCD(MPEG1) and this player plays everything perfectly. I've tried converting my MP3's to MP2 format and it plays them also. For the price that I paid, you can't beat the value.
	Jessie from Other reported July 28, 2002: Read features: Price: Time used: Rating: CDR Few 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: Overall great player. I use it mostly for svcds and casual dvd rentals. Today I realized I couldn't get Jensen 80min/700MB 10x CDRW media to play any of my svcds. Any input regarding what cdrw media works (tested) that does 80min 10x or greater please drop me an email. -Jess jbryan at geto dot net
	Jim Stephanek from Other reported March 18, 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? $200 N/A 10 of 10 miniDVD/cDVD Comments: I put a piece of pizza in it today. Damn thing started to play that little caezars commercial. :) Ok maybe not, but so far this player has played everything I threw at it. Yeah, the progressive scan feature may not be the way other people do it, but it sure does look pretty hot on my Mitsubishi 55807. Last week I bought the Toshiba SD3750, and boy was I amazed that this new piece of technology was so crappy. Properly configured offered me combing and pixelization. Not what I would expect from a brand new DVD player. So, I took it back, hooked up the 434 again and realized that the money should be spent elsewhere. To all who bought...enjoy. I sure am!
	darkhunter 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? $249 N/A 10 of 10 Comments: Has played everything I have thrown at it. All SVCD's and VCD's I have work perfectly. Have not tried XVCD. The quality is awesome and DVD's look great too. Also all brands of cdr media seem to work, I have tried everything from Verbatim to generic and they all play flawlessly! I think I am going to buy a second. I got a Apex ad1500 as a second player because it was cheap, but does not play VCD/SVCD nearly as well. Am going to return it and spend the extra $ on another Pioneer.
	jb from Other reported January 06, 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: this is a good player. i have backed up a couple dvd's to svcd using 2 800MB CDs and it plays them great. noticeably better than VHS using the 3 or 4 pass VBR. also, for all you MP3 lovers out there, it DOES play MP2 encoded audio. i use a great program called MVP by QDesign. Its easy and it works. good luck.
	Brian from Other reported December 27, 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? $249 N/A 8 of 10 Comments: This is my first DVD player. I’ve now owned it for just over a year, so it’s time to let the truth fly. I love the progressive-scan picture and the component outputs (looks SOOOO good on my WEGA). Digital audio is also great through a 5.1 or 6.1 decoder. The high-end hardware definitely scores a 9 or a 10; however, my standing gripes are with the little things. For instance, take the remote: it sucks! Finding the right button in the dark is still a chore for me after a year of ownership. Also, Pioneer could also have gone the extra mile to give the player an on-screen GUI, or something to make the “image” nicer—anything besides a black screen with low-res white letters while disks are loading. The hardware really is top-notch for the price, but by now there are much better products out there in the same price range. Happy shopping.
	Anonymous from Other reported December 20, 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? $149 N/A 10 of 10 Comments: This player rocks. It can play any type (dye color and brand)of cdr, and plays cdrw as well. It plays vcd's perfectly, even ones that aren't standard compliant with NTSC standards. It even plays PAL vcd's perfectly, without even having to hit any buttons to switch region modes. It plays svcd's at constant and variable bitrate. It was a good purchase.
	Ralf from Other reported December 12, 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? $? N/A 8 of 10 Comments: Hi, I want to comment on the player's progressive scan capabilities. We ran it side by side with a Sony 7000. Note that the Sony is not progressive in its factory condition. We watched on a properly calibrated Sony VPH-1270 SuperData 3 CRT front projector. The Sony player wins hands-down against the Pioneer, even thought the Pioneer makes the line structure disappear, period. It is in no way true that the 434 is superior to a thing like the Sony 7700. The Pioneer's picture loses all the depth and clarity and sharpness over the progressive scan outputs. E.g. the Sony 7000 will always display superior picture depth and color resolution. You get what you pay for. Ralf
	SC from Other reported October 22, 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? $149 N/A 9 of 10 Comments: Excellent player... if you're a homebrewer of video CDs, this player is excellent as it can play pretty much every type of CDR(RW) out there... only drawbacks is no MP3 support (no biggie) and a slight pause during layer switch (very minor)
	Michael Harrison from Other reported October 09, 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? $149 N/A 10 of 10 Comments: This player rocks. It is rock solid in playback of SVCDs, which is what I mainly use it for. The progressive scan gives you the quality of a $900 Sony for only $149. Buy.com had it on sale with free shipping, so I got one. I am very impressed. If your main focus is SVCD and VCD, I suggest this player. It will scan SVCDs and VCD without a file telling it how. It also has great sound and video quality with very intuitive menus. It starts fast and scans quickly.
	Cameron Berry from Other reported October 05, 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? $150 N/A 9 of 10 Comments: I love this player! My old RCA doesn't compare. Though I was perfectly happy with the performance of my RCA player, VCD creation was simply N/A. I lucked out and got this instead of the 433 when the online co. ran out of stock on the 433 and offered me the 434 for only $154. I haven't regretted my purchase for a moment. It plays everything I throw at it. If you could burn a tin can lid, this player could probably play it!
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