Waking up the neighbours (RJ Tech RJ-4200)

Member Name: kingseany

Product:	RJ Tech RJ-4200
Date:	11/03/06 (878 review reads)
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Advantages: Support just about every disk you can imagine

Disadvantages: Slow opening of tray

RJ Tech - probably a company you've never heard of. Me neither until we took delivery of this DVD come Karaoke machine. It's pretty impressive specs and low price took us in it's direction.

You get the machine, a silver box the size of a VCR, 2 "Professional" Mics, full function remote, and all the cables you need to hook up. It's a DVD player, karaoke machine with full digital Dolby 5.1 sound decoder. Add to the DTS Decoder, DCD, PCM Decoder - cinema sound and all that.

Just about every disk you can imagine is supported : DVD, DVD-R,DVD-RW, VCD 3.0, Audio CD, CD-DA, CD+G, DTS-CD, HDCD, CD-R, CD-RW, Kodak Picture CD, JPEG, Mr.OKO. I've no idea what Mr Oko is. Many Karaoke machines play either DVD or CD+G, but this plays either. It uses some pretty clever error correction to play even poor quality scratched disks. It's multi region, so you can play any DVD's without fuss, be it NTSC or PAL.

When it comes to outputs round the back, you've got S-Video, Component Video, Digital Coax and Optical Output, 2 Channels, 5.1 Channels and even a VGA connector for an external monitor - great for the karaoke function.

Round the front, you've got your usual track functions, two mic sockets, mic control, echo and delay, as well as a few other buttons.

The slim, matching silver remote has all the buttons you could hope for, and some which you'd hardly ever use.

Picture quality is super, what more can one say. Sound quality is pretty good too.

When it comes to the karaoke functions, you've got various mixing choices, with or without vocals and so on. I wouldn't say it's pro quality, but it's good enough to wake the neighbours - and is absolutely great fun for small parties.

Among the useful and unusual features is the scene digest option. This breaks any disk into 10 min scenes, handy for those home made movies - allowing you to select the scene you want by browsing the generated thumbnails. To describe each feature would be boring, it's enough to say the usual DVD functions are all there, angle, subtitle, freeze fram, zoom, slow mo etc etc. On screen menus are pretty standard these days, and of course it has one. The firmware is upgradable too. A screensaver kicks in after inactive periods, and it goes to sleep after a time. Parental control is available.

There's a bit of a delay between pressing the open button and the tray actually opening, this might annoy you.

The manual is a bit of a let down, being poorly translated and not describing certain functions at all.

It's cheap for a machine with all this functionality, probably around £80 or so in the UK. It's over the top for those who want just a basic DVD player though.

Summary: Nice party machine

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