Weak price / performance ratio

Positives:

- Well made, with standard-quality housing width and depth.
- Smooth, fast drive with excellent error correction.
- 4: 3 video DVD material can be represented in Pillar Box.
- DivX Ultra and WMV support.
- Remote control with good sphere. (Identical to the Philips 5990).
- Enkoding function to convert an audio CD into MP3 files.
- Closed Captions support and Sleep Timer.
- Very easy codefree switchable.

Neutral:

- Reading and launching files via USB faster than with Zoran players, but more slowly than in the current MTK competitors.
- Ordinary, something scarce manual.
- Clearer browser, but only 14 characters per line.

Negatives:

- No real on / off switch on the front.
- Settings for brightness, contrast, saturation and so ineffective in HDMI mode.
- No switching from YUV to RGB color space in HDMI operation possible.
- No possibility of adjusting the video pull manually.
- A little bit ports. (No Toshlink or 5.1 analog.)
- No 576i output via HDMI.
- A little high price.

In conclusion, I prefer that the Yamaha with its MTK chipset 1389s is indeed a in the optical sense really nice player, for a device of 150, - Euro price range but offers too little. It is virtually identical to the Philips 5990, but costs considerably more and does not have the same background in the FW-Mod scene. Speaking Firmware: This does not even provides all the features of the reference-FW, for example, was used for the Xoro 8450. So the browser of Yamaha only 14 characters and the 576i HDMI output has disappeared.

But who is looking for a response processed player which also supports with the matching TV Closed Captions, will hardly pass the Yamaha. Otherwise, there are in this price range, especially when it comes to HDMI image quality, some better deals.