Newsgroup: it.comp.hardware.dvd
Titolo: Info urgente su Cambridge DVD89

Ciao a tutti!
Necessito di sapere con urgenza se il Cambridge DVD89 sia dezonabile 
(code-free) e, se sì, come.
Grazie per l'aiuto, ciao!
Luca

 Luca
beh... visto che l'ho comprato, mi rispondo da solo, forse a qualcuno 
interessa.
Il Cambridge DVD 89 non necessita di alcun hack per la dezonatura 
(leggi: è nativamente code-free, si possono leggere DVD di qualunque 
regione).
Per il suo prezzo (siamo intorno ai 300€), mi sembra un buon lettore 
multiformato (CD/CD-R/CD-RW, DVD video e audio +/- R/RW, SACD, 
MPEG4/DivX, ...), con uscita HDMI. Unica pecca, strana, non legge MP3 
(ma a me francamente non importa molto visto che, dal punto di vista 
della qualità audio, lo considero un formato per... bimbi).
Il punto forte in effetti è proprio la qualità audio; a prezzi simili è 
davvero difficile ottenere di più da un lettore multiformato. A questo 
proposito una caratteristica interessante (non so se sia così frequente) 
è l'uscita audio stereo in downmix.
Per chi volesse approfondire, propongo un paio di link utili:
la pagina ufficiale del prodotto:
http://www.cambridgeaudio.com/summary.php?PID=113&Title=DVD89
ed un test comparativo con altri lettori di analogo livello (per chi non 
conoscesse il francese, riporto più sotto la traduzione in inglese):
http://www.hifissimo.com/store/search.cgi?user_id=8981&database=base.db&template=banc_essai.tpml&0=28138
Ciao a tutti!
Luca
In chapter 10, that jerks very as much as Denon, on the other hand the 
colors are more beautiful than this last. They hotter and are 
contrasted, and the blacks are a little deeper. In chapter 6, I have the 
impression that it swarms less than Denon. A fast outward journey return 
confirms it, and shows that the DVD89 swarms, but hardly more than the 
DVD1920, while the DV6600 can make this defect more discrete. In this 
scene which occurs partly in the half-light, certain details of the 
faces are revealed with Marantz, whereas they are invisible with the 
DVD1920 and the DVD89. It confirms thus to make better with dimensions 
contrast and depth that the two others. There still, the color is 
softer, more beautiful to look at, while being quite exact, and the 
plane backs, as detailed as on Denon, make an overall picture a little 
more beautiful as on Denon - a surprise for me which thought than 
Marantz was especially turned towards the audio. Finally, with defects 
of the same importance (swarming, jerks), and more successful aspects 
(black deeper, more cordial and soft colors), I find that the quality of 
the image is a notch with the top of that of Denon, itself a little with 
the top of Cambridge DVD89, and I would say that the variation of 
quality between Marantz and Denon is more significant than that between 
Denon and Cambridge. As much to say to you that I did not expect it. To 
fix our ideas, and since I have it under the hand, I decided to take 
again the same tests with Denon DVD2910... What is seen immediately, it 
is best piqué of image and the reduction of the video noise, of 
swarming. Also, one is struck by the promptness of the light and the 
colors: the clear greens are sharper, the nuances richer, better than on 
the three other readers. In chapter 6, swarming is more discrete, while 
the plane backs are as good as on the DV6600 which drew some very well. 
In chapter 9, the traveling towards the village, although it is not 
perfectly fluid and without with blows, is more constant than on the 
other readers, cast. As a whole, one gains seriously in quality of the 
blacks, the colors and in piqué. Swarming is decreased and the image is 
more stable. History to replace the things in their place, the simple 
fact that a reader DVD has a HDMi exit and a scalor with 720p is not an 
end in itself, and I am certain that tomorrow one will find readers with 
39€ with such possibilities. That will not make of them much better 
readers than those which one finds today at this price there, alas. When 
Denon produces a reader with 400€ and another with 1500€ which has the 
same functions, the quality of the components makes the difference, and 
contrary to the sound which often requires much attention to determine 
the differences, the difference in quality of an image is seen with the 
first glance, for little that one can what look at. It is certain that 
large market of readers DVD relates to TVS plasma and LCD, and that 
their relative small size makes it possible to hide the defects of the 
readers. But a beautiful reader, connected in HDMi on a plasma, that 
sees himself immediately. Alas, too many people several thousands of 
euros in an apparatus of quality invest, and give him to eat an image of 
average quality, by preserving their old reader DVD whom they will 
connect with Péritel, and while not benefitting from the possibilities 
of their plasma. The salesmen of our trade, well too occupied hiding 
behind the promos and reductions, alas will not educate the public. With 
the exception of some people, of which you form part, and who had 
courage to read me until the end. And since I arrived at the end of this 
test, let to me give you my classification for these machines. Denon 
DVD1920 is, in the HDMi family with scalor, (with less 400€), more sold 
market. I thought, with twists, that Marantz DV6600 would be a version 
degraded in video and largely improved in audio. It is almost all the 
reverse! In video, it is slightly higher than Denon, and in audio, it is 
a little better, but not more than that. I was also mistaken concerning 
Cambridge DVD89. I thought that it would be a hair better than Marantz, 
in audio, and quite higher than Denon, whereas it is in fact very far in 
front of Marantz in audio, and that it exceeds even its predecessor, 
Cambridge 540D, who was already unbeatable, at its price. With such a 
result, new Cambridge reaches the quality of a good reader CD (let us 
say until 350/400€) and can replace it very well in your Hifi piece of 
furniture if its sound signature corresponds to the way in which you 
like to listen to the music. In video, I thought that it would be better 
than that. Admittedly I did not dream that it would be better than 
Denon, but I thought that it would pursue it. For a maniac of the image 
as I am it, it is a little in withdrawal on the DVD1920. A little more 
video noise per Ci, some effects of staircases by there, of the plane 
backs a little vaguer, it is sufficient for me to classify it below 
Denon. From there of saying that it is not appropriate for a video 
projector, I do not think it, because the image is far from being 
pushing back! Let us say that that which gives the priority to the image 
should choose Marantz DV6600, and which that which gives the priority to 
the sound should take Cambridge. For an image of small size (plasma of 
107cm and less), there is not to hesitate, so much the sound quality of 
the DVD89 is beautiful, and its small video defects will be invisible 
there with this size. Jean Patrick Grumberg, Hifissimo