Pioneer DV-383S Multi-Volt DVD Player
Excellent player that plays everything
I've tested this player with DivXTestCD ver. 1.1 and player passed virtually all tests: all bitrates, different resolutions, different compression options (QPEL, GMC, packed pixels etc). It only had problems (serious A/V sync issues + framedropping) on AVI files with WMA sound track - but I need to say that I've never encountered such files in real life. It is not documented but player supports also OGG audio & OGM video!  So, in short, it plays: Video: AVI or OGM files with DivX 3-5 or Xvid; MPG files with mpeg1 or mpeg2 video; VCD, CVD, SVCD, DVD. PAL & NTSC. From CD or DVD. Audio: WAV, MP3, OGG, WMA files; PCM, Dolby Digital (AC3), MPEG1 (MP3) & MPEG2 sound tracks inside video files (WMA has serious issues if inside video file); DTS for DVD. From CD or DVD. Subtitles: all existing formats (all present on  DivXTestCD ver. 1.1). Graphics: JPEG.  Player has built-in PAL&lt;->NTSC transcoder that is _DEACTIVATED_ by default (set to AUTO). If your TV understands only NTSC (or only PAL) then you should switch the player into the appropriate mode - everything is described in the manual (and also in another reviews here). It has zone _1_ on the back but other reviewers wrote that it is multizone - may be, never tested. Hope so :-) It can be connected to 110-240V AC power supply. Universal player :-)  I like the player a lot. Anyway I should mention the downsides: 1) All player functions are supported ONLY for VCD/CVD/SVCD/DVD formats, other formats has some limitations. For example, for MPEG4 (DivX, Xvid) player supports only one FF speed and doesn't remember last playback position. 2) Player supports video post-processing only for MPEG1/MPEG2 video (VCD/CVD/SVCD/DVD and separate MPG files) but NOT for MPEG4 (DivX/Xvid). Actually this means that at the same bitrate MPEG4 will give _significantly_ WORSE quality compared to MPEG2 - it will be much more \\"blocky\\" (DVD compressed to CVD/SVCD with good compressor will look on this player way better than DivX version. You'll need at least two DivX CDs to get the same quality). I guess that this is a chipset limitation :-( 3) Player doesn't have random playing mode for audio files (but has for chapters on DVD - what a useless feature!!!).  I'd say that this is very interesting player and it definitely worths its price even considering the downsides (other players have more ;-) And it really plays EVERYTHING! Ok, nearly everything! ;-)  Hope this review will be helpfull for somebody.