Cambridge Audio DVD53

The Cambridge Audio DVD53 is a wonderful machine that I cannot recommend highly enough. Was purchased at Richer Sounds.

I used review centre and happened upon the excellent reviews for Cambridge. Bought it, set up is easy and I was ready to go. The picture is clear, sound is excellent and it plays everything. It looks good and feels solid.

My Cambridge Audio DVD53 Seems to be ok, will come back when I know what I'm looking for?

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Purchased the Cambridge Audio DVD53 DVD Player from shop with slight worries as It came not playing many formats. 45 seconds after plugging in with a quick hack supplied on the box it plays everything and I mean everything. Just this week purchased some DVD R discs and tried them on 9 yes 9 other machines, NONE of the other machines played them, this little beauty plays them like a dream. 30p a DVD R. Machine has paid for itself there. Sound quality is excellent and picture quality sharp.

I have just bought this from Richer Sounds. I have had two Cyberhome 528's which were both good till they failed after 11 and 13 months respectively. Even though it failed out of warrenty, Richer Sounds replaced with another, and recommended the Accoustic Solutions 651. This was had bad LipSync problems and you have to keep goind into DVD setup to choose between 2 channel (down scart) and digital to decoder. As the kids use this, it is a major pain. Anyway, I returned it and took home a Cambridge Audio DVD53. Richer Sounds have great customer service!!! The DVD is a different class. From it's color setup menus to it's Windows style navigation of photo (jpg) CD's and MP3's. Superb !! The Audio is very good, even from MP3 and it plays VCD's and SVCD's. Picture is also first rate. After 2 years of having Cyberhome (which was also good, but not as polished and died after a year), this looks like an excellent bit of kit. It is also built solid and feels like a £250+ piece of kit.

Bought this Cambridge Audio DVD53 DVD player after taking a multi award winning Cyberhome unit home only to find it was truly horrid...bass notes like banging a big bit of bamboo..yuk.

Anyway returned the Cyberhome unit and bought the Cambridge audio 53 player home...opened the box...oooh very nice...plugged it all in and no more Bamboo, doesnt like SVCD's very much but I guess that can be fixed with a bios update. plays cd's as good as my home cd deck...now all I need is a decent AV receiver to go with it...

Perhaps there are some build issues but I have had no signs of this with the unit I bought...

Bottom line: would I buy another...YES! end of story.

Ray.

i have noticed a lot of peaple saying that they can only find cambridge audio at richer sound i have been informed by the guy at richer sounds is that the owner of richer sounds helped out cambridge when they had a lot of money problems and so they made them the main trader also you will not find any other DVD player the same as this one as they are still made in england by cambridge audio in cambridge along with all the other items thay make wich i will say are all great not a bad one in there for the money. Also i have noticed some one saying that it is good for a none brand oversaly they do not know much about real HI-FI.

For the price this machine has it all, its multi region for a start which for the price is great value for money.It also plays also my vcds and dvdrs no problem which is a god send as i've been through numerous players trying to find one that will play all the formats i require.

Picture quality is great with the blacks being very impressive on this player compared to similar priced players, while its audio playback is the nearest i have heard to cd player quality ever. Not only is this player a dvd player but its equal to similar priced cd players in quality which is a nice bonus.

There's not a bad word i can say about this machine other than its a bargain and i love it.

I bought this player as a replacment for my bedroom DVD player, a high end sony player which my wife recently broke while cleaning lol. As always I researched the currently availablbe dvd players to find the best quality, at a reasonable price. This really is a case that does clearly show that a little research into what you buy pays off in heaps.

Some may not be familiar with the brand Cambridge Audio, unless you're into high/mid range audio seperates, and in which case you will know they have an excellent reputation for build quality, functionality, and performance. Cambridge audio are also the guys responsible for many of the expensive pc speaker surround setups by creative labs. The Cambridge Audio DVD53 is no different, and certainly carries over all of there expertise to the DVD arena.

The DVD53 certainly looks the part, in its very sleek silver casing, boasting amazing build quality, very attractive LCD display, and just enough buttons on the case as you might need for operation without the remote control. The remote control its self is very cool indeed, and the prefect size, carring all the funtions you could imagine. I wish sony would take note of this, instead of making brick sized remote controls lol. Picture quality is excellent, actually it's astounding at this price. Colours are vivid, tones are spot on, and a certain improvment over the much more expensive sony machine it has replaced.

I expected the sound on this machine to be very sweet indeed, and it certainly is. Hooked up to dolby digital, im certain it will impress anyone, audiophile or not.

I cant recommend this DVD player enough, at £119, which includes multi region, it a great buy. From a person who is very much into the high end kit, I can safly say that this DVD player will be floating my boat for quite some time :)

I spent quite a while looking for a DVD player and didn't want the spend the eqivalent of a small cars worth of cash, and this is the player that has it all. Seriousy - the only thing this model won't do is progressive scan. It has outputs for component video, Scart, RGB, S-Video, Coaxial and Optical Digital as well as being able to NTSC-Pal convert. Although the manual says it wont play VCD it will (I watched one last night). It has so many other features too. Looks wise it is a slimline silver effort and the remote is one of these thin small efforts, which uses a watch-type lithium battery (which is even supplied) and has a glow in the dark keypad.

Picture quality is good, crisp and well saturated and the sound quality also impresses me. I got rid of my CD player when I bought this and dont regret that decision.

The only flaw I have found so far is that when a disc is loaded it takes a second or so for the player to decide what disc type it is and what it has to do with it, but at £119 I can't complain. Sorry if this a)long & b)very praiseworthy but I can't find a problem with the machine.