Samsung DVD-1080PK Vs Pioneer DV-600AV-S

Originally Posted by illusion

Can pioneer read Multisession DVD's ?? Also does it have a USB 2.0 slot ?

Originally Posted by venkatcr

In my personal opinion, Pioneer is better than Philips or Sony, simple because they have been manufacturing DVD Players for a long time. If you see Secrets of Home Theater & High Fidelity and their famous DVD Player Benchmark, Pioneer have always been at the top along with Panasonic and such brands. The benchmark is not much appreciative of either Sony or Philips, at least in their budget variety.

Pioneer has been using a proven internal transport and basic video circuity for a long time. The new models do have additional features and connectivity, but the players dependability, MPEG decoding, and DAC circuitry have been rock solid for a long time.

At 6K, the DV-600 will be hard to beat.

Flared, don't even look at Panasonic, Denon and other brands. They are more expensive and outside your budget.

If you can lay your hands on a good piece of the DV-600, I think you should go in for it. Even a DV-400 is very very good.

Cheers

Originally Posted by spirovious

What about sound out compare to Dennon?

Originally Posted by illusion

I am quite confused between the two( Pioneer , Samsung). My requirements are as following:-

MY AVR will do all the sound decodings, so as far as sound is concerned any dvd player with digital optical out is enough for me. I play 99% divx movies mainly documentaries and English movies downloaded from the Internet and I will be playing them through a flash drive or preferably a 250gb hdd ( I intend to buy one later on) so USB 2.0 is a must. DVD-A capability is not much required as I don’t have any 5.1 discs !
Now both Samsung and Pioneer have all my above features. So now the face off is more about which DVD Player plays Divx Video best ?? For me that is most important. I have ruled out Phillips has it does not have optical digital out. Help here would be really appreciated. I intend to buy this player within next week max.
I am ready to pay the price differential of pioneer if the video quality will be better .

Originally Posted by thevortex

Illusion,

I would not rule out the Philips just because of the lack of Optical outs. In any case, the Coaxials are the best for sound.

The Philips is the DivX Ultra certified player here. The Pioneer 410K too is a DivX Ultra certified one, I think. The Samsung 1080 PK is not Divx Ultra certified. However it is DivX certified. Ultra is the benchmark on DivX playability. If that is very important to you, you might want to consider this.

If you are looking at using USB drives and connecting that to your DVD, here is something you need to consider. In the Pioneer, if you connect the USB, there is no simple way to go back to your disc. You have to switch off and switch on. I think that is very stupid. At least that is the way I was shown the demo of a Pioneer DVD.

The Philips plays very well and has good USB connectivity but it has a very cheap looking remote. By far the Samsung has the best remote of the three.

Originally Posted by illusion

Coaxials and opticals perform the same for short distance but that is not the reason why I ruled it out.

My amp has one coaxial in and two optical ins. My coaxial in is already occupied by my portable player dock and only the optical ins are free . hence i had to rule out phillips

I had already mentioned the fact about how phillips 5956 output quality(Divx Videos) was zilch as compared to Sony NS 76 in this forum somewhere . Now I will repeat the same question here - Does the Phillips 5996 and 5956 use the same Mediatek version Chipset ??.

Originally Posted by psychotropic

Generally if you compare the reviews for the Sony NS708 and the Samsung 1080PK the Sony has gotten superior reviews.....even consumer reviews on amazon.com (where the comparable model is the Sony NS700) give the SOny an edge. It is a good player for the budget, but there are some slight issues with image noise. Colour reproduction is excellent and dark scenes and handled well.

I will definitely be upgrading to an Oppo or a Denon as soon as I can afford it. If you've invested in a biggish HDTV, it's worth investing a bit more on a DVD player that can do justice to it.