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The Evesham DVD1000 boasts an impressive specification for £70, including upscaling via HDMI and DivX support. The slimline deck is easy to use and most of the remote's controls are logical enough, if not quite up to the standard set by Toshiba and Sony's handsets.
Evaluating with the price in mind, the image quality via SCART is none too impressive. Frankly, you can buy better-performing SCART players for less money. Upscaling, essentially, is dependent upon the video scalar used and Evesham's budget player's is reasonable. Move on over to HDMI and ratchet up the resolution to 720p on a 32in LCD that's capable of 1366x768 resolution, and the quality does improve somewhat, to a level that, we reckon, a decent £75 SCART-based player could achieve.
The £70 asking price for a multi-purpose DVD player that packs in upscaling technology seems extraordinary value on first glance. As with most things, you get what you pay for. In the Evesham DVD1000's case, that's a reasonable HDMI-driven picture and a bunch of supported formats but with a few left out.
We'd like to see a newer model with better SCART performance and support for 768p, for pixel-perfect mapping on most high-definition displays. The current model is average in most respects and, as such, does not deserve an outright recommendation. Flat-panel owners may be tempted by its HDMI connectivity and upscaling promise, but we'd wait a while longer for a better all-rounder to appear.
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Evesham Technology DVD1000
