The Avayon DXP-1000 is a DVD player that is based on ESS 6698 chipset, providing good performance and many features. The player is advertised as DivX Home Theater and NeroDigital Standard format certified. We confirmed these claims, so you can be sure that your encoded files will played back without any problems. On the other hand, QPel, used in advanced video compression by the Mpeg4 format, is not supported, so be careful when encoding your files. The Xvid format is supported (GMC 3 WP) and of course, Mpeg1/2 formats are present too.

What obviously is missing is a digital output port (DVI/HDMI), since it is supported by so many current HDTVs. The device is priced around US$75, which can be considered as average, there being lower priced DVD players on the market without however, similar specs.

- The Good

• DivX and NeroDigital certified
• ESS ES6698 chipset can "handle" many Video and Audio formats
• Can recognize all CD/ DVD writable/re-writable discs
• Supports progressive scan, via Component output
• Supports Subrip and IFO/Sub (.srt) subtitles, but not in all languages
• Remote control design is typical for this category
• Can upgrade its firmware
• Can become region free

- The Bad

• GMC 3WP and QPel are not supported
• No upscale (720p/1080p) function
• Not much information displayed during playback
• Doesn't support most non-Latin based European languages for filenames and subtitles