Review by Carlos Y. Escolar for Pioneer DV-220V-K HDMI 1080p Upscaling DVD Player
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This player is really small, so it might not stack well with your other components.

The converted picture to 1080p is really amazing! (I don’t feel like I need to get a Blue-Ray player…)

One small complain: to change mode from 4:3 to 16:9 you need to stop watching, go into the setup menu and do it.

It would be nice to have a button on the remote to do this.

(We just finished watching a DVD that had been recorded in 4:3, so it looked squished on our HD TV until we figured out how to change that aspect ratio…)

Review by J. Shipp for Pioneer DV-220V-K HDMI 1080p Upscaling DVD Player
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The DV-220V-K is a great little machine in most respects. For simple commercial DVD’s the HDMI upscale sound and picture quality are impressive, as good as my HD satelite reception which, in my humble opinion, is excellent. Menu options for tweaking sound and picture are adequate and the size of the machine (14″ wide vs 17″ wide for most DVD players) is appreciated. I have two complaints. As stated in another review, I wish the player had more picture size options. It offers 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios in the initial setup and two zoom levels, both adequate for inspecting Johnny Depp’s nasal hair but not much else. I hate the letterbox effect and I would really like an incremental zoom control of some kind on the remote. I can’t compensate with my TV controls because my TV will stretch but it won’t zoom. My second complaint is the skimpy operating manual. It tells you almost nothing about what effect the various menu contols will have so trial and error are the order of the day (be sure to set the picture resolution to the highest your TV can handle). In conclusion, I have to say that this player is far better in almost every respect than my previous purchase which was a Samsung F-1080 (big disappointment) and the price is better than right.

Review by Customer for Pioneer DV-220V-K HDMI 1080p Upscaling DVD Player
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Nice DVD player that plays DivX files from USB flash drive and DVDs including DVD+RWs. I have many divx/avi movies in hard drives but I can’t play any of those unless I copied into flash drive. Two of those HDs are desktop HDs with its own AC but none of them played with this player. Other than that, I like both appearance and playback quality with HDMI. Doesn’t heat up like Yamaha DVD-S1800BL 1080p Upconverting DVD SACD Player that I returned earlier. Very sleek and light. Remote control comes with “eject” button (in case if you care that button as I do). It also plays jpg files from SDHD card (use with Transcend 16 GB SDHC Class 6 Flash Memory Card with Card Reader TS16GSDHC6-S5W) but not mov files from camera and camcorder.

Update 12/30/09: I can play avi and jpeg files from HDDs if that is formatted with FAT32. Partitioned HDDs cannot play with this player, i.e. HDD partitioned with NTSF and FAT32.

Edit: I got only 480p with this player while the same HDMI and the same DVD got 1080p with Samsung DVD-1080P9 1080p Upconverting DVD Player.