[sheardale]

I purchased a DVD Silvercrest player from Lidl, and with it came a CD with Nero 8 Essentials on it. This appears to be a trial version only. I already have a copy of Nero 6 and would uninstall this and install the new version, but not if it's just a trial version. Can anyone confirm the position here?

Regards

Pat Macguire

[TheAmazingDanny]

Run the setup program. If it says TRIAL in the program name, it'll be a trial. If it says trial anywhere, it's a trial. If it has a CD key, it's probably not a trial (unless it sepcifically says "Trial Key").

[sheardale]

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheAmazingDanny

Run the setup program. If it says TRIAL in the program name, it'll be a trial. If it says trial anywhere, it's a trial. If it has a CD key, it's probably not a trial (unless it sepcifically says "Trial Key").

It does say "Trial" when I run Setup, but also says on the CD label, "Not for resale" and "Bundle with hardware only" Does this tell us any more?

Regards

Pat Macguire

[TheAmazingDanny]

Quote:

Originally Posted by sheardale

It does say "Trial" when I run Setup, but also says on the CD label, "Not for resale" and "Bundle with hardware only" Does this tell us any more?

Regards

Pat Macguire

Unless it has a CD key on the package which may "unlock" the "trial" setup, but more than likely it is simply a trial - the messages on the lable are just to stop people passing it off as a full copy version etc.

[Chris Frost]

Bits of trial software get bundled with hardware all the time.

By all accounts this is a "plays almost anything" scaling DVD player with USB socket & 7 in 1 card reader, onboard DD & DTS decoders , SCART, component, VGA out, built in test patterns, 96kHz/24bit, optical, coax + 5.1 out analog out, DivX, MPEG4, WMA9, and on and on...all for about £30.


Flippin 'eck, some people are hard to please


Edit: It's got HDMI too!!


Edit2: Nero 8 essentials OEM - about a fiver from here: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/128287

[NineT9]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chris Frost

Bits of trial software get bundled with hardware all the time.

By all accounts this is a "plays almost anything" scaling DVD player with USB socket & 7 in 1 card reader, onboard DD & DTS decoders , SCART, component, VGA out, built in test patterns, 96kHz/24bit, optical, coax + 5.1 out analog out, DivX, MPEG4, WMA9, and on and on...all for about £30.


Flippin 'eck, some people are hard to please


Edit: It's got HDMI too!!


Edit2: Nero 8 essentials OEM - about a fiver from here: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/128287

*Frantically hunts for his nearest Lidl store*

Edit: Actually, no... It's not got HDMI and dont think it does upscaling. I'll stick with XBMC.

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Last edited by NineT9 : 09-12-2008 at 06:57. Reason: New info

[Chris Frost]

I haven't seen one myself, but this bloke has...

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dave 909

Out local Lidl have 2 dvd players on offer at the moment and I'm looking at getting 1 of them. But I'm a little unsure of which to go for.

The cheaper 1 is the £32.99 HDMI player branded as Silvercrest. I did'nt give this 1 to much attention at first. But it it does play mpeg4 files and has the HDMI connection of cause.

...and quite a few folk at AV Forums seem to agree...

"There is a DVD player on sale in lidl for £32.99. It lists in the spec 480p up to 1080p"


...and then there's the consensus opinion that this is the manual from the Silvercrest website http://www.mysilvercrest.de/foto/sup...517_18_LB6.pdf

Quote:

HD resolution: Here you can select from several resolutions for the HDMI output. Check, using the playback device's instruction manual, at which resolutions
(480p/576p/720p/1080i/1080p/Auto) are supported.

[NineT9]

Ah, now I was looking at the link you posted originally (http://www.dv-rec.de/test/player2006...6511/6511.html) where there are no HDMI slots on the back and the review says "no" to 720 or 1080...

Still prefer XBMC