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is the h&b 5415 player any good ,also is the h&b 5415s model the newest or is it basically the same.

Well I bought a 5415s few weeks ago from amazon and I have to say that I am really pleased with it. It will play everything I throw at it (dvd`s, cd, vcd, svcd, mp3 cd-r, cd-rw).

The features on it are for me fantastic for the money you pay, it is true multi-region as well, and if you have a dolby decoder or dts system, then it has direct 5.1 outputs as well (just a shame that i don`t have one !).

Only downside for me was that the version I bought did not have macrovision disabled so it you can`t record your dvd`s, but there is a way you can get round this.

It is my first dvd player, so I cannot compare it with another, but I am really pleased with it, and it looks damn fine as well.

I have a mate with a 5415s and he is having a few probs with VCD`s. He can`t get VCD slideshows to play, and he has some VCD`s with episodes of 24, but when he puts them in it just comes up with like an explorer file browser and he can`t get them to play.

Any ideas of what he needs to do?

Thanks,

NiVZ