Smokey
03-04-2016, 09:55 PM
My DVD player started acting up on me, so hunt for new DVD player begun since 75% of my collection is till DVDs.
The first DVD player I tried was Samsung DVD-C500 upconvert DVD player for $40.
The upconverted DVD picture quality was OK , but also I could see a lot of noise and grain in the picture. And the worst part about this DVD player is how noisy it is.
This particular Samsung DVD player been on the market for over three years amd there are tons of reviews on how noisy this thing is. But apparently it has fallen on Samsung deaf ears or they don’t care as noise issue is still a big problem for this DVD player.
So back to store it went.
Next on the chopping block was Sony DVPSR510H up convert DVD player for $45. This DVD is much better than Samsung in terms of picture quality as ther are les noise in upconverted picture. And the best part, no noise.
Like Samsung, this DVD player has been on market for over three years, but it has much better reviews. So plan was to keep it.
But while I was at Walmart store, I saw that they have Sony Bluray BDP-S3500 on sale for $50 (Reg. $119.99). This is 2015 model, so its technology is three years ahead of the other two player.
So bought Sony Bluray player also to try it out.
And I am glad I did. Compare with Sony DVD player, this Bluray player have much cleaner unconverted DVD movies. One problem with unconverted picture is that player have to fill in extra resolution. So noise and grains can be a problem.
But this Bluray player does an admirable job of up converting as noise is almost no existence. And very balance colors with deep blacks. Not to mention very accurate flesh tones which goes a long way to make DVDs very film like.
And it flags video vs. films material correctly. The films and materials shot on films are outputted as 1080P/24 hz, and video and TV shows are outputted as 1080/60 hz.
So took the Sony DVD player back and kept the Sony Bluray player.
My DVDs have never looked better :)
The first DVD player I tried was Samsung DVD-C500 upconvert DVD player for $40.
The upconverted DVD picture quality was OK , but also I could see a lot of noise and grain in the picture. And the worst part about this DVD player is how noisy it is.
This particular Samsung DVD player been on the market for over three years amd there are tons of reviews on how noisy this thing is. But apparently it has fallen on Samsung deaf ears or they don’t care as noise issue is still a big problem for this DVD player.
So back to store it went.
Next on the chopping block was Sony DVPSR510H up convert DVD player for $45. This DVD is much better than Samsung in terms of picture quality as ther are les noise in upconverted picture. And the best part, no noise.
Like Samsung, this DVD player has been on market for over three years, but it has much better reviews. So plan was to keep it.
But while I was at Walmart store, I saw that they have Sony Bluray BDP-S3500 on sale for $50 (Reg. $119.99). This is 2015 model, so its technology is three years ahead of the other two player.
So bought Sony Bluray player also to try it out.
And I am glad I did. Compare with Sony DVD player, this Bluray player have much cleaner unconverted DVD movies. One problem with unconverted picture is that player have to fill in extra resolution. So noise and grains can be a problem.
But this Bluray player does an admirable job of up converting as noise is almost no existence. And very balance colors with deep blacks. Not to mention very accurate flesh tones which goes a long way to make DVDs very film like.
And it flags video vs. films material correctly. The films and materials shot on films are outputted as 1080P/24 hz, and video and TV shows are outputted as 1080/60 hz.
So took the Sony DVD player back and kept the Sony Bluray player.
My DVDs have never looked better :)