Mine is Pioneer DV-400V.

Is your TV use a full HD panel? If not, try not to upscale to 1080i, jerk/blur/judders during moving scenes are more common for interlaced picture. Try to use 720p instead and see if the problem still there or not.

I'm waiting for the Toshiba XDE DVD player.

As much as I like standalone BD player, it is really wrong to say PS3 is not a better BD player. It is still the best BD player in the world now. Maybe in future when there are better standalones, that statement could be true.

Yeah, I'll be getting the XDE for my 2 racks of old DVD collection, but I will never buy new DVDs anymore, all new movie purchase from me since October last year are only in BD format.

Movies on BDs are now released day-and-date with DVDs bro. There's not even minute of waiting.

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Added on September 15, 2008, 6:47 pmOnce you get into BDs bro, you will not buy new DVDs anymore. Just start your BD venture and only then you'll understand.

This post has been edited by aiman04: Sep 15 2008, 06:47 PM

The day you buy your first BD is the day you'll see the end of new DVDs for you.

So, they have 70 titles? Well, how come I have more then them?

Show off.

If the ahem DVD is a direct replicate of the ori, then it should be fine. Most ori DVDs are double-layer (DVD9), so if the ahem is single layer, most probably they've re-encode to lower bitrate, resulting in inferior quality.

How to know? Just insert the disc into your DVD-ROM drive in your PC, and see the properties. If it's more than 4.3GB, then it's double-layer.

And most DTS track on ahem DVDs are rubbish, they've used the original Dolby Digital track to re-encode to DTS, if they set the settings right, it could sound OK. If the source original DVD already have a DTS track, then that could be the real thing.

Glad to help bro.

That "BD copied" Alien 4 DVD is confirmed as not a copy from the BD after all. FYI, all Alien movies have not been released on BD yet!

I've not watched Alien 4 for very long time, hated it. But I think it's possible it's a bad re-encode by the ahem people. However, the original DVD does have DTS, so it could already be like that.

Only pan & scan anamorphic Panavision or opened-up Super35 movies for home video will fit your TV fully.

Otherwise, there will always be black bars if the movie is wider than your TV. How big the bars depends on the movie's aspect ratio below:

Common Theatrical Movies = 1.85:1, 2.35:1, 2.40:1

Normal TV = 1.33:1
Widescreen TV = 1.78:1

So for 1.85:1 movies (i.e. Jurassic Park) on a widescreen TV, there will be a very thin black bars, while for 2.40:1 (i.e. Casino Royale) movies will have the thickest black bars. Some animated movies are framed at 1.78:1, so that will fill up you widescreen TVs in full.

Why is the theatrical movies so wide? When the TV was invented, movies in theaters starting to lose customers. To enhance or to make movies a special experience, special lenses was designed to have the movie screen wider. So if you look at theatrical movies before early 1940s, they all have aspect ratio of 1.33:1.

PS3 just officially lauched in Malaysia for RM1599.

Spread the poison!

How soon?

Eh, guys, this is the DVD thread la, not BD.

PS3 is the first Profile 2.0 BD player in the world. Only RM1599 with local Sony warranty.

Might be selling my Pioneer DV-400V-S (equivalent to 410) with free HDMI cable. Any takers?

RM300, I'm getting a new black to match my system.

PM lah, not proper discussing here. First come first served.

There was one guy who posted here saying he can bring Oppo players here cheap. For got who already.

You've never heard of Oppo?

Here:

http://www.oppodigital.com/

It's hard to find here. Like I said, there was someone who said he can bring in Oppo players, I think he posted in this thread somewhere.

About playability, no idea. But it's one of high rated specialist DVD players. They don't make any other products.

Is there any product that isn't made in China nowadays?

My iPhone says "Designed by Apple in California, USA, Assembled in China".

My PS3, speakers, subwoofers, almost all made in China. So what to do, the least is to look for is the design and engineering part, or at least the brand itself is not from China. (My Onkyo proudly made in Malaysia though. )

*Note: Paradigm speakers and subwoofers are still made in Canada. But it's possible they'll move their production line to China to cut cost, only question is when.

I never trust China brands per se, but I have no choice for Japan/USA/EU/UK brands that are made in China. At least we these well known brands should have good engineering, design and QC, they're manufacturing them in China just to save the cost of labour, etc.

This post has been edited by aiman04: Nov 6 2008, 05:55 PM