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john316
04-10-2001, 20:20
Does anyone know how these 2 DVD players compare against each other.
deftone666
04-10-2001, 23:59
The PS2 plays games better than the Sammy and the Sammy plays DVD's much better than the PS2.
john316
05-10-2001, 00:32
It is amazing how people's opinions of the PS2 DVD playback differ. I read that someone believes their PS2 compares very well to their Pioneer 535 DVD player whilst others think the PS2 is the worst DVD player on the market!
jester
05-10-2001, 09:40
My tuppence worth...

I was in my local Dixons on Sunday and a couple were interested in buying a PS2 and asked for a demo playing a DVD. Chicken Run was then duly brought out and they watched about 3 mins.

The couple were very impressed and commented on how much better it was than VHS and duly bought one.

I have *never* seen such poor playback of an MPEG source.
Jaggies all over and you could see the break lines (banding) in smooth colour gradient shading.

It was demoing on a smart £1000 W/S Grundig by the way.

I was considering buying one of these for the games AND as a second player but have been put off now.

I have a Pioneer 535 by the way, not the best player in world I know.
tigrr_uk
05-10-2001, 09:56
Ahhhhhhh, know some things before you rip into the PS2.

They would have been playing it through the lead that came with it most probably which is the crappy 2 leads audio, 1 lead video (composite??) I agree, you get a crap picture throught this...

BUT

Put it though an SVideo lead, and I think IMHO you get a cracking picture. OK not as good as your standalone £200+ players, but v good IMO.

Rant over.
The Dude
05-10-2001, 15:04
What's the PS2 like when it comes to playing DVD titles that use seamless branching?
jester
05-10-2001, 16:02
The faults with the picture really looked like bad MPEG decoding rather than poor interconnection.
john316
05-10-2001, 16:04
I have not noticed any probs with DVD playback on the my 2nd TV with the PS2.
Masha
05-10-2001, 16:29
Mines pretty good too, I used to have a 709 but got rid after having lip-sync problems and some disks not being readable properley or buggy......my current dvd player is an aiwa 370 which is far better than the ps2 but I think ps2 is a fair comparison to the 709 with slight picture quality loss but no bugs(afaik).