Avayon Technologies is a relatively new company headquartered in Nashua, New Hampshire. Avayon recently announced several new DVD players with Nero Digital support as well as several other interesting features. The DXP-1000, featured in this review, is priced around US$70, making it very attractive for entry level users who want an affordable and at the same time powerful player.

- Avayon DXP-1000

Avayon DXP-1000 is a player that supports:

• DVD, DivX and Nero Digital  movies
• MPEG 1/2/4, DivX, XviD, Nero Digital, JPEG,   MP3, WMA
• DivX Home Theatre Certified
• Nero Digital Standard Certified
• Progressive Scan

The main chipset comes from ESS (ES6698 Vibrato II) and is quite powerful:

• Single-chip DVD processor
• Mpeg4 Advanced Simple Profile at full screen (D1)
• High quality progressive scan
• Integrated NTSC/PAL encoder with Pixel-adaptive de-interlacer and five video DACs
• Supports DVD-Video, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, SVCD, VCD, CD-ROM, CD-R/RW and CD-DA
• DivX Home Theater quality video at full screen
• Up to 7.1 channel audio DAC
• Macrovision protected, NTSC/PAL interlaced video
• JPEG digital photo support (Kodak Picture CD and Fujifilm FujiColor CD)
• MPE and Windows Media Audio (WMA)
• Dolby Digital, Dolby Pro Logic, and Pro Logic II
• DTS surround
• S/PDIF digital audio input and output
• MPEG AAC and Multichannel
• SRS TruSurround and TruSurround XT
• Professional karaoke with full scoring scheme

- Full specifications