This is a mistake that is sometimes made by consumers and reviewers alike.įor CAV color bars, all measurements are in mV. Not properly setup your display with your DVD player using color bars and a This simply is not the case.Īll DVD players should output the same color saturation, and if not, you have Player has more saturated colors than another. If you do not, you will be fooled into thinking one DVD You change DVD players, you must re-adjust contrast, brightness, color, and We are really trying to emphasize that if The reason for these graphs is to show the many standards and the fact that Standards for NTSC and PAL as well as where the 596 sits relative to them. The videoīelow you will find several bar graphs that show known The MPEG decoder is the LSI Logic (C-Cube) Ziva-3. With the exception of the choma upsampling error, the video quality of this DVD player isĮxcellent. using a PC,Īdded PAL information to this and future reports. You can alsoĬhange some basic setup features of the 596 from the OSD vs. Plain text on-screen display (OSD), and there is now a nicer UI with icons. The 596 also has a more refined user interface. A couple more buttons have been added for specificĭVD-A features. The 596 includes a slightly updated version of the MSR If you are looking for a great CD player, this DVD player Just to have them, not that anyone would every use them since they have theĭigital outputs. We say surpriseīecause we made the assumption that they merely included the analog outputs Pleasant surprise, Meridian has apparently spent a great deal of timeĮnsuring the analog outputs of the DVD player are top notch. (think DVD-A and progressive scan playback.) Suggests that improvements can be made by swapping boards if such The 596 is not asįlexible as the 800 in regards to upgrades, but the layout of the boards The 596, like the 800, isīuilt around a DVD-ROM drive and is modular in design. This is the first DVD player review from our 2nd DVD BenchmarkĪ review of Meridian's latest DVD player, which inherits a lotįrom its old/bigger sibling, the 800 DVD Machine. Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, PE18 6ED, England