US Logic DP-3182 DVD Player

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US Logic DP-3182 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	$50	7.6/10 5 votes	View 5 reports (9127 views) Post report
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	Video formats: VCD SVCD DivX XviD JPG, DVD-JPG MPEGISO DVD-MPEGISO Audio formats: MP3 DVD-MP3 max 320kbit/s MP3 long filename MP3 ID3 TAG WMA				Other features: Progressive Scanning Visit manufacturer's site Region code free hack here Google this player.
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	1 Dynex 2.4xDVD+R (RITEK...D01) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. 1 Panasonic 2xBD-R (MEI...T01) comments, 0 plays 1 dont play. 1 Philips 8xDVD+R (CMC MAG.E01) comments, 1 plays 0 dont play. Post your DVD Media comments here
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	Peter Sadlon from United States reported April 28, 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? $50 over 1 year 6 of 10 JPG/JPEG DVD-JPG MP3 long filename MP3 ID3 TAG DivX XviD MPEGISO DVD-MPEGISO Chipset: Sunplus SPHE82??? Comments: It's region free and played nearly everything I could throw at it, some stuff well, some not. Xvid files showed some various hang freezes, syncing, and pixelation errors especially if the used QPEL or GMC. The included remote was horrible. All the buttons more or less worked as advertised but getting the thing aimed at the DVD for the buttons to be registered when pressed was an exercise in frustration. Additionally the player wasn't supported by any universal remote I had so I was stuck with it for anything but the most basic functions (power, eject, play/stop, pause, skip forward, skip back). Other minor frustrations with the controls the fact that when you skip back it doesn't go to the beginning of the current scene but the beginning of the previous scene and if you pause for more than a couple min its it can take up to 5-10 seconds for it to respond to play being pushed. Combined with the remote narrow response field this often causes you to have to much longer for the thing to resume play than necessary, often causing you the hit the button again in case something didn't register, often pausing it before it even starts. The player has lasted over 16 months but lately it's started claiming files that played a couple days ago are unsupported and even crashes when I try to play a lens cleaning disk. Admittedly 16 months isn't a bad period of run time but it's not a good one either.
	rob from United States reported August 04, 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 320kbit/s WMA? CVD? $50 14 days 7 of 10 DVD-MP3 MP3 long filename MP3 ID3 TAG DivX XviD Comments: This is the first DivX player I've tried and I've mostly been very impressed. I found one XviD I've encoded that played "too slow," looking like it was running at about 5fps, but the audio kept up... I'm guessing the file was at too high of a bitrate. On most of my XviD collection, 700mb full-length movie encodes, the results are extremely watchable and look damn close to DVD (keep in mind I have an old-fangled non-HD set). The unit is reasonably intelligent at handling different resolutions too. Unit plays MP3 DVDs very nicely, including --alt-preset extreme VBRs and --alt-preset insane CBR encodes, and sounds pretty darned good on my Paradigms. On both DivX discs and MP3 discs, however, the eight-character display limitation is a major annoyance and ID3s do not display, no way no how. The unit will also occasionally trim off the first second or two of an MP3 file. Not as impressed with DVD playback. Looks more aliased and falls slightly flat compared to my marginally older Panasonic S35. Then again, it loads discs hella faster too and makes a lot less noise. I also love the fact that this unit doesn't turn itself off on idle like so many name-brand players. Energy Star, Schmenergy Star... nothing hacks me off more than waiting 20-30 seconds for my Panasonic to "reboot" (even for audio CDs!) just because I let it sit one minute too long... this has been a problem with every DVD player I've tried since my beloved old Pioneer DV333. I think the US Logic is very attractively designed, much more attractive than the cheesy-looking Philips or Norcent players, and while it's a "standard width" the unit is very slim / small-- so slim that I've got it on top of my Onkyo receiver and it's not blocking the vents on top. I particularly love the "skinny tray" but I do think it's likely to be flimsy, so watch it around curious cats and small children. Time will tell if this will hold up. They're $60 normally from CompUSA and I think I'd be hesitant to purchase a second one at that price, since Wal-Mart has the 642 for $58.
	Joe from United States reported July 30, 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? $50 5 days 9 of 10 JPG/JPEG DVD-MP3 DivX XviD MPEGISO DVD-MPEGISO Comments: Ecellent, inexpensive DVD player that plays Divx files effortlessly...Remote is on the flimsy side. Picture viewing is cumbersome and archaic....Remote sensor needs to be aimed perfectly at sensor on DVD player in order to work properly. Good video and audio quality..Support will be in question, since there seems to be NO webpage for US Logic.
	orac from United States reported July 30, 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 VBR WMA CVD? $50 7 days 9 of 10 JPG/JPEG DVD-JPG DVD-WMA DVD-MP3 MP3 long filename DivX XviD MPEGISO DVD-MPEGISO Chipset: Sunplus SPHE82??? Comments: I was very surprised with this player after less than stunning success with other mpeg4 compatible players including the Philips DVP642, JVC XV-N312S, and CyberHome 1600. Well on to the review: This player says it supports DivX4/5 on the box and in the manual but I was surprised that it played Divx3 files very smoothly as well. Infact it plays them better than my DVP642 with respect to motion and less artifacts. DivXTestCD 1.1 tests that worked fine: 3-01 DivX3 - 1000Kbs - Audio MP3 CBR - Low Motion 3-02 DivX3 - 1000Kbs - Audio MP3 CBR - Fast Motion 3-03 DivX3 - 3000Kbs - Audio MP3 CBR - Low Motion 3-04 DivX3 - 1000Kbs - Audio MP3 VBR - Fast Motion 3-05 DivX3 - 1000Kbs - Audio AC3 - Fast Motion 4-01 DivX4 - 1000Kbs - Audio MP3 CBR 4-02 DivX4 - 3000Kbs - Audio MP3 CBR 4-03 DivX4 - 1000Kbs - Audio MP3 VBR 4-04 DivX4 - 1000Kbs - Audio AC3 5-01 DivX5 - 1000Kbs - Audio MP3 CBR 5-02 DivX5 - 3000Kbs - Audio MP3 CBR 5-03 DivX5 - 1000Kbs - Audio MP3 VBR 5-04 DivX5 - 1000Kbs - Audio AC3 5-07 DivX5 + GMC - 1000Kbs - Audio MP3 CBR (1warp pt) 5-08 DivX5 + BF - 1000Kbs - Audio MP3 CBR (packed,1BF) 5-10 DivX5 + GMC + BF - 1000Kbs - Audio MP3 CBR (pkd,1wp,1BF) 6-01 XVid - 1000Kbs - Audio MP3 CBR 6-02 XVid - 3000Kbs - Audio MP3 CBR 6-03 XVid - 1000Kbs - Audio MP3 VBR 6-04 XVid - 1000Kbs - Audio AC3 6-08 XVid + BF - 1000Kbs - Audio MP3 CBR (2 BFs) 6-11 XVid + BVOP désactivé - 1000Kbs - Audio MP3 CBR (2 BFs) 7-01 Audio MP3 CBR 7-02 Audio MP3 VBR Tests with problems: DivX/XviD with ogg audio don't show up in menu DivX/XviD with wma audio play video but NO audio The next group of tests play but have various stages of breakup of video and/or pixelation - They DO play though: 5-09 DivX5 + QPEL - 1000Kbs - Audio MP3 CBR 6-07 XVid + GMC - 1000Kbs - Audio MP3 CBR (2 warp pts) 6-09 XVid + QPEL - 1000Kbs - Audio MP3 CBR (0 BF) 6-10 XVid + GMC + BF - 1000Kbs - Audio MP3 CBR (2 wp,2 BF) Well QPEL plays but quite a bit of breakup and general video troubles with both DivX and XviD. DivX GMC with 1 warp point plays great. Xvid GMC has lots of breakup as well. I think the 2 warp points are the culprit. The player has no problems with 2BF files. Unlike the previous poster I have had no problems with Xvid high bitrate files up to ~3000 kbs - most of my files are newer encodes with XviD 1.0 ---> 1.1.beta2 which is my favorite now since it fixes any motion/freezing problems with bad source files. The picture quality is very good and especially absent is decoder artifacts when playing PAL->NTSC DivX/XviD files. Similar quality to the MediaTek chips in this respect and has none of the annoying DVP642 'jail bars' which are present on some PAL conversion files. Packed bitsteam files play very nice too. The Mediatek based players usually need to be unpacked with Mpeg4Modifier - at least all the ones I have need this done so it is nice to be able to save another step and just play files. Like I said earlier I was very happy to find this player will play DivX3 files and with less problems than my 642 and with less blockiness. (files that choke/freeze the 642 tend to slightly hiccup and then continue playing fine with the DP-3182) One problem I had is with some DivX 5 (older codec not 5.1/5.2) encodes - I have had a few that would freeze up completely, but a Virualdub fast recompress to a newer divx 5 or xvid solves this problem. Like the previous poster said file names are limited to 8 characters and it does have 'interesting' ways of choosing from longer filenames. Solved by labeling the files someting like S01E01 for TV shows and keeping movie names under 8 letters with abbreviations. I agree the disc loading tray should be treated with caution and not pushed in by hand. Internally the design is very compact and minimalistic with a switching power supply, the DVD loader, 1 main board, and 2 control boards (lcd and control buttons). The main decoder chip is the newer 'all-in-one' IC from Sunplus - SPHE8281S which acts as the video decoder and DVD loader servo contoller. Other ICs on the main board are a BIOS, voltage contoller, and 2 RAM chips and 2 op amps. The Sunplus chip gets warm but I don't feel the need to heatsink it yet. Out of the 5 Divx DVD player I have tried/owned this DP-3182 is the 'best' player for clarity of playback and the amount of files it can play with very good quality. Although this is a no-name brand and is 'cheaply made' is WORKS the way a player should. Not perfect but out of a 100 files I have tested only 6 needed to be re-encoded - contrasted with 25-50 files with the other players. Some times it is nice to take a chance and have it pay off.
	Michael Baker from United States reported July 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? $50 1 days 7 of 10 JPG/JPEG DVD-JPG DVD-MP3 MP3 long filename MP3 ID3 TAG DivX XviD MPEGISO DVD-MPEGISO Comments: This player is distributed by Comp USA and is marketed as a DivX player. It seems to be very cheaply made but does a good job playing DivX files. I have only tried playing DivX off of a DVD-R but it did a good job playing those. It plays DivX and XviD. I noticed some freezing/skipping on XviD files that were encoded at a very high bitrate but it played most files just fine. It will play videos encoded with the qpel codec but the audio is a bit off (not synched up). When I first hooked it up I was distressed to find that I could only get a black and white picture over an S-Video cable. This can be fixed by changing a seeting in the menus. Note that although this player saya nothing about DTS support it played back a DTS track (LOTR) that I tested with no problems. The generic remote is not very responsive. The tray seems very flimsy so I would recommend using the open/close button rather than puching on the tray itself if you want it to last. The GUI menu will only display shortened filenames (8 characters) and for some reason it sorts the titles strangely so it can be hard to find the file you want. I also noticed that some of the interactive menu icons were off on one disc (LOTR: FOTR SE). The menu was still fully functional but things just looked a bit off. I got this player for $50 at Comp USA. Overall it's definitely not a quality piece of equipment but it does play DivX/XviD very well off of DVD-R (and probably CD-R). If you are looking for a GREAT machine to play back all of your discs, look elsewhere. But if you are looking for one that will get the job done for $50 this one will do the trick.
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