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Wonder if anybody has tried this reasonably priced universal player. It can upsample CD Audio and has Dolby Pro LogicII decoding.
I went through the manual and cannot find a way to choose groups for DVD-Audio. Can it be done without a TV?
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I bought it for our casual living room where the wife and my 23 month old son romp and stomp on daily basis.Not wanting to spend much money on a quality DVD player for that particular room, which would only be unmercifully abused by my forementioned wife and 23 year old son, I did some research on budget players and decided on this one. My dealer was well aware of the problems with the S1500 and will no longer sell them.
I have had this player for almost four weeks and it is used every day for music and DVD movies. So far, in this short amount of time I have been impressed with it's video and audio performance. Haven't tried my DVD-Audio discs yet. Will get around to it some time in the near future.
I have a seperate Two Channel/HT room for my "higer end " gear and I don't allow the wife and kid into that room, unsupervised. I don't know how long this player will last and continue to surprise me with it's fine performance, but for now it's doing well.
Considering my own personal requirements and how I use it, I feel this player is a great deal for what it offers, it's fine performance and it's price point.
Found out that this player is based on a Philips chassis asnd is similar to the DVP720SA! Maybe that's why DVD-A support is poor?
If it's anything like the DVD S1500, avoid like the plague.
I had one of those, and it is awful.
Skips even on pressed discs, and noew the store I bought it from say they cannot replicate the fault.So I'm stuck after shelling out £275 with a useless player.
Yamaha are useless, all they tell me is to contact the retailer.AVOID ALL YAMAHA.
www.opusproductions.com
Multichannel Audio Specialists
It looks exactly like the S1500 sold here in the USA. I have one and had to return it to Yamaha. It gave me trouble from Day One. Only when it catastrophically failed; no sound, distorted picture did I return it to Yamaha. They replaced it with a "B" stock unit which played well for four months. Now I'm getting occasional motor vibration noise. It's going to go back before the six month warranty expires.
My advice: stay away from it.
Yes they do look alike but looking at the menus and rear connectors from the manuals they seem to be different inside. But I'll take your advice and be careful.
But unfortunately at that price range (approx USD195) there seems to be no other reasonable universal player available for sale in Singapore! The only other similarly priced Pioneer 686 (approx USD 160) does not even do level adjustments!
I second this advice.Avoid the Yamaha players as you would a dose of the clap.
Sorry to be crude, but I can think of no better way to put it - I'm out of pocket by £275 over this S1500, the retailer will not refund me and Yamaha do not care.I will be talking to trading standards office, and for all in the UK - do NOT buy anything from AV-Land in Wellingborough.
Their after sales service is frankly a joke, they do not care.
All I got was a whine about how they had already made a loss selling the machine to me for less than they paid for it to Yamaha. Why this is my problem escapes me right now.A store I can highly recommend is Superfi. They give a damn, and have been great.
www.opusproductions.com
Multichannel Audio Specialists
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