Pioneer DV-393-S Progressive Scan DVD Player with Div-X by Pioneer
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Digital camera reviews of Pioneer DV-393-S Progressive Scan DVD Player with Div-X
Digital camera Review: I love this dvd player!
Summary: 5 Stars
I am very pleased with this dvd player. It is easy to hook up and so easy to use. I find the picture of good quality and the multi regional feature, easy to use. I am more than happy and considering buying a second one. I would recomend this to anyone that is interested in a multi regional player.Digital camera Review: Such a Rational Device!
Summary: 5 Stars
Thanks to my friend, Zabbat, I now have this rational device (which I so admired in his home). I can enjoy watching my DVDs from Germany while smoking fine cigars. Digital camera Review: Affordable All-Region Player
Summary: 5 Stars
I've played three of my R2 DVDs on this player, the Pioneer DV 393 S Region Free DVD Player, and so far the picture quality is better than expected. The one downside is that the motor is a little noisy. However, I can live with that. The instruction booklet is helpful, set up took only 10 minutes, and the remote is easy to use. What I principally wanted was a straightforward, reliable player that delivers a nice picture for R2 DVDs. This looks to be a good player for a small price.Digital camera Review: This is the ONE, the PAL DVD player for you. Go for it!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I am in the United States (DVD Region 1 - NTSC) and since I have recently become interested in Region 2 PAL DVD's (think the recent Jane Eyre starring Toby Stephens) I ordered the Pioneer DV-393-S Multi-Zone Region Free DVD Player from Amazon. It came new in a sealed box in about 4 days to me here on the West Coast (which surprised me, as I half expected it to have been opened and hacked in some way in order for it to be able to play PAL).
I was worried about this, because I am NOT the technical type and feared lots of button-pushing to make things work (I can barely program my VCR) but when I hooked it up it played BOTH the UK Jane Eyre (which is a PAL Region 2 DVD disk) and another PAL Region 2 DVD disk that I have RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX with no problems whatsoever, no messing about, no hacking -no nothing! Plug it in, put in the PAL DVD and it plays flawlessly on my NTSC television! Heaven!
I really couldn't believe it would be this easy, so, as a test, I re-connected my old Sony DVD player (thinking that the Sony might play it just fine too), put in the PAL disk - and the Sony player could NOT play it. Gave an error message that it was the wrong region.
So what this tells me is that the Pioneer not only will play region 2 disks, but that it also must have some kind of internal programming that converts the PAL (UK) to NTSC (US) - because the frame rates are different between the two.
I chose the Pioneer over the other (and some quite a bit less expensive region-free players advertised on Amazon) because the Pioneer had all of the bells and whistles I was used to, and then some: Dolby Digital Surround output, DTS Surround output (to my compatible stereo receiver); it plays .avi disks (which my son at film school uses to record his work to send to me), CD's, Video CD's - the list goes on and on! The Pioneer has really excellent user-friendly on-screen menus to navigate, which are used to tweak various audio and video settings. These menus work flawlessly with the provided remote.
I am hearing impaired, and I was delighted to find out after I received the player that it has a setting (that I did not read about in the original advertising) that accentuates dialog. This seems to work really well - I am now able to listen to my surround system (before I had to always use headphones) without the dialog being lost "behind" the music.
All in all I am COMPLETELY AND ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTED with this player!!!
It works *exactly* as advertised.
Well, I must be off now again to Amazon UK to get some more of those wonderful BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation)films. Region 2/PAL DVD's are no longer an obstacle for me!!
Ta! :-)
Digital camera Review: Very Nice DVD Player but no Optical Digital OUT
Summary: 3 Stars
I received this DVD player three days ago. To my surprise, I did not find a digital optical audio output. It only has the coaxial digital out. This disappointed me. I was using a cheaper generic DVD player which had both types of output. I had an optical cable but now I had to go buy the coaxial cable for another $20. Those of you who need to have an optical output, should not buy this. However, the picture quality, the sound and other featurs of a DVD player are really good. Happy with the purchase other than being forced to spend for the coaxial cable. Three stars only due to lack of optical out.