 Regions and video formats that can be played |
| Review Date: November 11, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Surfer Rob, Sunny California |
I did not purchase this player from Amazon, but I did get it off of Ebay. If you want to use the USB or SD inputs the video format that works the best is SVCD, the AVI formats mostly did not work with various codecs. Also, regular VCD format worked, but you could not skip through different chapters.
The unit is very light and the power supply or wall wart is a modern "switching" type like a cell phone charger. It has played all of my burned DVD+R discs without any skipping or freezing.
Funny thing though, the unit is supposed to be set to REGION 1 or USA, but it will not play any rented or purchased DVD discs. But will play a burned image of the same disc.
If anyone knows any Supersonic region codes, please help.
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Plays many kinds of files, but not DVD's
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| Review Date: January 9, 2010 |
| Reviewer: B. McQuinn, |
I can confirm this will not play region 1 encoded DVD's from the USA. Supersonic has not responded to my email about this. It does play burned DVD+R, SVCD and some AVI files ok. I have had little luck getting it to play any common MP4 formats. It does work with a portable USB hard drive and SD card, but is difficult to find files on a disc with many file folders and files. It doesn't find them all, and only shows 8 characters of the file name.
I got it for the VGA output and portability to use with my AAXA p2 projector. I assumed VGA would provide better picture quality than A/V output. Theoretically yes, but the VGA connection is poor and suffers from a lot of electrical interference from the unit itself. Wavy electrical lines and static while playing a disc destroy the overall picture quality. The interference doesn't seem to be as noticeable with the A/V output. It's not the cable (tried more than one) it is from the unit. Switching from VGA to RCA is done manually and has to be done through a menu on screen.
Obviously built for a low price and not quality, the plastic feels cheap so I'll be careful packing it for travel. LED display on front edge shows elapsed time, etc. and is useful.
If you're looking for a basic portable DVD player, this is not it. If you want a MP4 player, there are smaller ones to choose from with flash memory. If you want to play your own SVCD's, DVD+r's, MP3, or MPEG files from disc or USB, then this will do the trick for a good price. Even just for viewing pictures from your memory card on your TV it works. I will find uses for it regardless of its misrepresented feature set (DVD compatibility) |
Defaults dont work in US, Need to tweak the settings
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| Review Date: March 8, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Naveen Kumar Nair, |
| "Item is fine... You will need to tweak the settings to get things to work. The default settings seems to not work with my TV/PC" |
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