Harman Kardon DVD 22 Review, Compare, Prices, Discounts
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Beautiful industrial manufacture, perfectly matches the HK receiver it sits on top of. Plays every disc like a dream... haven't seen a single skip or even an unpleasant shroud artifact approved with dirty or scratched discs. I wasn't certain it would be worth the note, but now that I have it, there are no regrets. What more can I say?
*------Two Years Later-------*
Well, I level-headed deem it was a sizable DVD player, when it worked. After about 9 months the player stopped accepting discs, refusing to perambulate up. It took 2 months to come by it repaired, after which it worked, but was noisier than before. And now, about a year after the repair, the player has crapped out again, with the same dilemma. Here's hoping HK will collected fix or replace it.
Pros:
Beautiful narrate, lovely color, flawless sound--has built in Wolfson audio processors! If you don't mind not having HD upconversion, and don't need to play SACD's, this is a extraordinary DVD player. Built in DTS and Dolby decoding processors are the best I've heard on any DVD player yet; even over Denon, Sony, Samsung, Zenith, and Panasonic. The closest I've seen comparable to this DVD player for the same sign is the Toshiba S 5970.
Cons:
No HD upconversion--even though the report is virtually flawless. HK has reported numerous issues w this DVD player's digital optical outputs (which I have had to return 2 in as many months) and is discontinuing it to concentrate on their unique DVD31 (which does play SACD's and HDCD's, where this model does not) .
the Harman/Kardon DVD 22 is generally a step above the run-of-the-mill players without becoming rediculous in imprint. It uses pixel-by-pixel - rather than line-based processing to develop a noticeably better image in progressive scan. It does have a lovely respectable report.
It has been reported on some websites that there are "issues" with the optical output. I have not encountered this since I exhaust the coax output and analog output. Audio analog out is very, very advantageous.
The machine is hampered by truly lousy remote control. A bunch of white buttons. Above the buttons, in grey letters (almost impossible to leer and blending into the background) are the names of the controls. Yes, the remote is backlighting, but that does shrimp pleasurable since it unbiased illuminates the white buttons, NOT the lettering which explains what the buttons are for. all this could be acceptable if the layout were "normal". But it isn't. The "stay button", for example, is nowhere advance the "play" button. I found the remote impossible to live with.
My Pioneer VSX 1014 receiver (recent model) did not have the controls for the H/K built in, so I had the program the Pioneer remote with the H/K codes. Finally, I was able to throw the H/K remote in some drawer some where, hopefully not to be seen again.
