Need a new one as the old one has loading problems and is now in the bin. Want a cheap one as it hardly gets used should I get one with HDMI output? Old one used SCART. TV has the sockets.
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DVD Player advice
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3 years ago
They probably all have HDMI now and SCART has likely disappeared from most as well.
Even though you use it very little, it might be worth considering paying a bit more and getting a blue-ray player instead. It'll still play DVDs, but gives you the option for blue-ray as well in the future - mainly for if you can't get hold of what you want on DVD.
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Are there still two kinds of Blu-Ray player on the market, Old Blu-ray and 4k HDR Blu-ray?
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When you sat 'the bin', you mean aside to go in the electronics recycling?
I think it will be fairly difficult to get one without these days?
Sounds typical.
I bought a new 'basic' DVD player when my stepdaughter went into the Hospice because she hadn't got long, daughter wanted to watch a particular film with her and it might have taken a week to get a PAT on an existing one (new didn't need testing).
They managed to watch the film in bursts as / when she was conscious.
The room TV had both SCART and HDMI.
Cheers, T i m
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JohnP snipped-for-privacy@nowhere.com wrote in news:XnsACEE66C6810F8JohPnowherecom@81.171.92.236:
I have just read that SCART will automatically select the DVD on the TV.
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HDMI can do the same
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That can happen with HDMI too. HDMI can also pass through your TV remote control so you don't need a separate one for the menus etc. That's an optional part of the HDMI spec (called CEC) so it will depend on your TV and DVD.
Of the 32 for sale at Currys, three have SCART. SCART would massively restrict your options. (OK, a few of those at Currys are 'portable' players with screens etc. But the rest are regular players)
Theo
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That, of course, is a major fallacy. I've tested - and failed - brand new equipment. Of course, it was easier to rectify the problme than to send it back.
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So can HDMI if the software on the TV allows it.
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The @concept' that it didn't *need* testing because it would 'automatically' be ok / pass you mean? Yes, I'm sure you are right.
We had a similar thing with a cooling fan when the Mrs was in having her knee replacement and because all I cared about was helping her get more comfortable, not wasting time arguing with 'the system', I went and bought a new fan and set it up for her. We also left it there afterwards in the hope it might help someone else (with their agreement / approval / thanks).
You could spot the one we left as it was the one without the cables showing that had been pulled out of the cable retainer, the cracked / selotaped plug top or kinked / damaged cable. ;-(
Oh, I'm sure you have ... but the logic / irony (if a new one could fail the PAT etc) of 'This fan is only 3 months old and in the same condition as any new one from the shop' would have been wasted on them (only protecting themselves etc).
Often the case (saying more about some returns systems than simplicity of the issues etc).
Cheers, T i m
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£20 Majority one will play anything and any region...
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formatting link
got four of them ...
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3 years ago
Old PC with a HDMI output?
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HDMI? Well only for interconnect as most are not hd, what about a blue ray?
Brian
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Also of course there are these cool remixed beatles albums in surround sound if you have it. Brian
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"Brian Gaff \(Sofa\)" snipped-for-privacy@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in news:s2prkr$pkd$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:
I don't think South Pacific and Oklahoma will benefit from Blue Ray!
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3 years ago
HDMI is HD. And well beyond, as many computer monitors use it.
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So does HDMI.
Mine (a Blu Ray player) switches the TV on and selects the correct peripheral channel. Both items are Sony.
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It's often switchable in the TV menu. As was SCART.
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The settings menus are so often impenetrably labelled. A Sony HDD/DVD-R machine displayed everything in 4:3 through HDMI but 16:9 via SCART. Discs recorded on it played back properly (16:9) on other players.
It took me ages to work out which setting was wrong on the DVD-R machine, but I found it eventually.