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Scan 440Sli

mark fell-crook (Harmless) posted this on Thursday, 30th January 2003, 10:31

Finally got a 440Sli to replace my Scan 2500.

Tried a variety of different discs R1, R2, SVCD, DVD-R, MP3`s, Photo
CD`s

All played back without problems, The machine did hang once on a CD-
R, which meant i had to power off the DVD Player from the mains and
then eject.

The MP3`s menu is better than the SC2500 in that in shows the folder
and track names, well only 8 chars but it`s better than D1, F1 that
the scan 2500 used to show!!!

The only problem is with displaying JPG`s on a CD-R. The picture
quality is pretty bad and a lot of the JPG`s i had on the CD
wouldn`t show up. I think this must be a maximum file size problem
as the ones i was using were all 1600 x 1200 and around 300k to 1.2
mb depending on the picture contents. The 300k ones worked but not
anything bigger than >~640kb

Apart from that the player is well worth cost of £99

If anyone finds a firmware update to fix the JPG slideshow, please
let me know!

Thanks

Mark

RE: Scan 440Sli

WPKenny (Competent) posted this on Thursday, 30th January 2003, 15:28

Glad to hear that Mark. As I said before the Scan DVD players are great...when they work. Just a shame about the shoddy customer support behind them.

RE: Scan 440Sli

mark fell-crook (Harmless) posted this on Friday, 31st January 2003, 09:34

Cheers, I know what Scan customer support is like !!!

One thing i didn`t mention is R1 Discs look really fuzzy when played through this player, same as the scan 2500. I can`t believe that my four year old Samsung 709 plays R1`s in better quality than this!

Ah well.

RE: Scan 440Sli

nelley (Elite) posted this on Saturday, 1st February 2003, 11:58

Their still working on the jpeg problem.Your r

RE: Scan 440Sli

nelley (Elite) posted this on Saturday, 1st February 2003, 12:01

Your r1 dvds shouild not be fuzzy.Set the tv output to NTSC so a pure ntsc signal somes out.Setting it to pal means ntsc is bieng converted to pal and there is some degradation of quality.Use RGB at all times if possible.
rgds
nilesh

RE: Scan 440Sli

monkey_face (Harmless) posted this on Friday, 12th September 2003, 19:02

Hi

Have they released a firmware upgrade to resolve this problem now?
If so do you know where i can get it from?

Thanks

RE: Scan 440Sli

nelley (Elite) posted this on Saturday, 13th September 2003, 09:14

Email yelsew[at]ku.oc.nacs requesting the new 440lsi firmware.It does overcome the file size limitation on jpegs.
nilesh

RE: Scan 440Sli

monkey_face (Harmless) posted this on Saturday, 13th September 2003, 18:30

I have just emailed him.

Thank you for reply so quickly.

Nick

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