Shinco SDP-1720A DVD Player

By Alex Kidman on 15 October 2004

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Very good, but
Noisy at first but soon calms down, neat size, good screen. But aspect ratio is wrong. It doesn't fill the screen proportionally, it just stretches the image to fill the width of the screen so even a widescreen film looks odd, with black bars top & bottom.

31/05/2005 09:50 PM

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