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Which Home Theatre (w/speakers), that plays AVI's, etc, please??
I've searched all over using Google (and the good forums here!) and ended up wallowing through website-hell - finding mostly ad-sites. I need your help, please!
I will be taking to task what is on the introduction of this forum - "There is no dumb question..." so please, bear with me.
I bought an all-in-a-box Samsung Home Theatre (Player/FM Tuner and six speakers including sub-woofer). It sounds great, and plays everything great (except Blu-ray) including CD's, DVD's..even USB sticks! ...and plays every format: MP3's, AVI's, regular DVD movie-format, VCD's, etc.
The problem is when I play DVD-R's (yet CD-R's work great...) with AVI formats. Many of the programs skip terribly, albeit infrequently, for about 5 to 20 seconds of "skip" whilst playing. Needless to say, this is bloody ANNOYING!! I have way too many vintage tapes converted to AVI's to start again. The loss of quality by using AVI's is NOT an issue. Playing them is.
The Samsung dealer admitted they know the AVI format is an issue with the model I have, and others they sell. And from the many websites I have read that have tales of woe of others experiencing this same issue, it's not an isolated problem. The unit was swapped for another new unit with the exact results.
I am not asking for opinions on "try this" (I have) or "try that" (I have) or "stick to brand xx" (I did) or "maybe it's this..." (I've checked oodles of "what-if's"), please. I'm after a recommendation that someone can make who has recent first-hand experience with of a particular brand and make of a system that WORKS - not caring for whatever brand it is - and will play everything under the sun.
This unit cost only USD $265 / Canadian $310 / British GBP 136, which is a good bargain considering ths sound IS good (I am an audiophile but accept some lower quality trade-off for the great price).
What system out there now matches my quest?? If this Samsung worked with the AVI formats on DVD-R's, I would have a match here already.
I live in the Middle East (but am not from here) and would prefer a unit with 100 to 240 Volts AC input, and that plays and outputs both NTSC and PAL, If it has "Live Recording", recordable DVD's / CD's a Hard Disk it would be a bonus but is not required at all. I just want a player that plays everything, and that has a set of decent speakers like the Samsung I had.
Thanks in advance!
Last edited by Vinnie Scapelli : 02-10-2007 at 06:26 AM.
Reason: Added more to the quest for clarification...
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