Customer Reviews

Utobia 114K "Full Screen" Motion DVD Kit

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

I was shocked at the razor sharp picture I received after installing this on my Celeron 366 system. The best part of this kit was when I hooked up an RCA connector and ran it from my desktop to my Big Screen. WOW! The picture is better than any of my friends DVD players.Installation took less than 10 minutes, they actually included a very easy installation booklet.

I purchased this kit primarily for the excellent Pioneer drive. It is among the fastest you can get, and works like a charm. The included Utobia decoder card, allthough ostensibly superior to most (same people who make the Hollywood Magic), does not work with Windows 2000. I don't really mind this, as I just use a software viewer instead. Utobia promises they'll have a driver out soon. An easy five stars for the drive, just should have mentioned the card requires 95/98/NT.

My first DVD drive, nice nice nice when playing on myCeleron433-Voodoo3 2000 computer. I felt good with its REAL FULLSCREEN feature, just like watching a rasor sharp TV (would be much nice if I had a surround computer speakers).

Software is easy to install, the manufacturer was very considerate to include the "S-video to normal TV connector" cable so my normal Sony Stereo TV can be connected with the cheap, easy to find- cable. I also love the audio cable that connect the DVD card to the sound card, so I do not have to keep switching the speaker cable between sound card and DVD card. It also has a cable from DVD to VDO card. So if you get this DVD you have to read the menu carefully, there were quite a few things to be connected before you can enjoy full function of this DVD card. ... I felt that the user manual was too short and not much information on it.

The DVD Drive is very classy, no tray like the normal CD ROM drive (pioneer 10X, 5th gen.), love it.

TWO bad things I still cannot figure out why.

1) It took me a while to send the signal to a TV because the TV mode button on the "DVDstation software" was not work (I tried re-install it many times). However it worked when I used the short cut key (F5) on the keyboard.

2) Only one Audio connection port. So I can connect it to the computer speakers only, I want the sound to come out to my home audio system for bigger-bolder sound, still couldn't find a way to do it.

This is a great DVD. The manual is horrible, so setup might take longer for a person that is new to installing DVD drives. The picture is crisp and never skips. The decoder card is great, add it to dolby digital speakers, like the cambridge DT2500 and you are set. Also, there are new drivers for win2000, so you can play DVD movies in win2000 now.

I wrote a review for this product once (below). Just want to add that the decorder card software is run well on windows 98 but not on Windows 2000.

I was a little hesitant about this purchase, but I decided to try it out. It took a little while to receive it but it was well worth the wait. It was not only easy to install and set up, but the picture and sound are great. Even if you don't have surround sound you can use this product.I had a little trouble getting the sound to work, but the Utobia cuatomer service was so good, I had the problem solved in less than 5 minutes. I recommend this to everyone! It is a fantastic program, and now my kids can watch DVD videos on the computer with earphones, while I watch TV, or we can watch DVD on the TV as a family. It is wonderful! I love this. I also have had none of the problems associated with DVD players for the computer. It is so fast and smooth I play games with it and it will play cd's no problem.

well i am very dissapointed... when i first got my dvd drive i was all yey and stuff like that.... it worked fine for like a day but then it just started spitting the cd's out and i was wondering why and i noticed it wouldn't detect it in the bios, and i was wondering why? it did at first saying pioneer dvd something drive but now it doesnt so i tried using different IDE ports and jumpers but still can't get this to work, i accidentally threw the box away so i'm even more screwed, and i don't think this thing has a warranty so even worse.. i have no idea what happened because it stopped working and i didn't install anything after i put that in and it was working fine.. stay away from this thing, the decoder card is very cool with the tv out and sound and stuff but the dvd really got me dissapointed because now i have a drive bay with a DVD that won't work and it just kills me to see it there doing nothing.... :~(