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4.5 stars
"Does everything!"
Pros: Plays everything you can throw at it, multiregion with remote hack, plays PAL or NTSC
Cons: None yet as far as I can tell!
Summary: I picked this up at a Canadian Walmart for $59. To be honest, I had SEVERE doubts about it (which is why I bought it from Walmart - really good return policy).
I needed a cheap player that will play (legally purchased) Russian discs (PAL/SECAM with various regions). The player is very easy to region hack with the remote control: OPEN tray, press STOP, press 2-3-7-9, choose region 0, press OK, press EXIT SETUP, and OK again. That's it! It will read discs from every region.
The player will read PAL discs right out of the box with no hacks or modifications. It plays MP3s (or shows photos) from either CD or DVD, although Russian characters are not displayed (not a surprise).
Most impressive was that it played EVERY Divx disc that I tried in it. I made these discs myself with a Divx 5 encoder. It will even fast forward and doesn't seem to get out of audio synch.
Doesn't read Fuji xP memory cards, but will read almost everything else. Has a USB port to read/play movies from USB keys, but haven't tried it. Send me a USB key and I'll test it.
I'm absolutely amazed with this player! It does everything I want it to (and more - USB, memory cards, IR headphone support, etc). Google's still better, but until they release a DVD player, I'll love my Yahoo YDP-530.
