Excellent Quality, Value for money (Pioneer DV 530)

Member Name: ttajw2

Product:	Pioneer DV 530
Date:	12/05/01 (709 review reads)
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Advantages: silver - looks good, excellent sound/picture, good remote control

Disadvantages: more expensive for silver, slowish layer change

I bought this DVD player about 6 weeks ago after reading an article in What HiFi? which gave the player a rating of 5/5 and commented that it "concentrates on delivering the best sound and picture at the best price". I bought the silver version rather than the black DV-535. Generally I did find that it was about £20 more - however I would say that it is well worth it.

Picture
The picture quality frankly cannot be faulted. The pictures are crisp and contrast is excellent. The only thing that is I have noticed is compared to some DVD the layer change half way through the film is more noticable that some DVD players that I have seen.

Sound
Again the sound quality is excellent.

Remote Control
The remote control is well laid out and your finger seems to naturally rest on the enter button, which is then surrounded by the cursor arrow keys.

Multi - Region
I have just purchased the region 2 : europe player however it is about £35 to purchase a chip if you wish to convert it to multi-region. The fitting of this is easy as well as it just involves pushing the new chip in -there is no soldering involved - so may well be worth doing when the manufacturers warrenty runs out - as remember that you invalidate the manufacturers warrenty when you chips the player.

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