Jamo DMR 60 :) Not Happy

[ClassicFan]

My fault - I should have asked for opinions here.

I bought a Jamo DMR 60 DVD player/amp/DTS machine last week, with the A-10 speaker package. Here in Vancouver, Canada, Jamo is not well-known. A speedy search on the net before I bought told me little -- and much of what I read were Danish and German reviews (in Dansk and Deutsche) of Jamo's prowess in speaker technology.

I was also pleased by Jamo's region-free and NTSC/PAL versatility.

Dazzled by Jamo's reputation, and the $1,000 dollar discount offered here, I brought the monster home. The sound is superb. Jamo's tiny speakers play DTS perfectly, and the boom box booms - so well that an off-screen rumble of thunder has our two dogs bristling.

But the Jamo DVD reader is ****e. It stumbles on a legit DVD with fingerprints .. and our backed-up DVDs are a mess of pixelated video and out of sync audio.

Our older JVC and Panasonic players,and the Samsung portable play the backups without any loss of quality.

I am very annoyed. Do any of you folks have Jamo players?

[Chewy]

you've got a bum reader in it, nothing that reads as many formats as that one
should have problems with burned dvd's

[ClassicFan]

Jamo DMR-60 problems

Thanks for the ray of hope, Chewy.

If it is just a warranty problem, not a built-in fault, I should be able to get it replaced. I'd be interested to hear from anyone else who has a Jamo.

[global_dev]

Nice setup, i just acquires this recently as well, but I was curious how it could be $1000 off. is this USD?

I have pretty quick startup of video (DVD, XVID, PAL/NTSC).

I didn't get a read off a NTSC based USB drive, perhaps FAT only.

So far i was impressed with the system.

[ClassicFan]

Jamo DMR 60

You have the same Jamo model? Great - let me know if you find any probs playing DVDs.

The $1000 discount is CDN: the "original price" (yeah, sure) was CDN$1000 for the A 10 speaker system and $500 for the DMR 60. The package was sold at London Drugs (a western Canadian discounter) with a $500 mfr instant rebate plus their own $500 discount.

I haven't tried a warranty claim -yet. Most burned DVDs are playing OK; just a few are displaying the probs I described. I'll have to experiment with compression levels and burning speeds to see what it's sensitive to.

Please report your experiences, good and bad, as you use your Jamo.

[global_dev]

I had no issues, even with a rewritable 8 cm DVD from my sony camcorder that often isn't recognized by some dvd players. Seems to be working pretty well.

I saw it as a a set (one big box) from compusa. Regulary US$799.
I just bought it on the internet for $299+50 shipping. A far cry from compusa.
I have seen the DMR60 on the internet on sale anywhere from $500-$800 alone.
Apparently, Jamo is owned by Klipsch, but that means little to me since Klipsch products are found at all consumer levels.

I tried some real DVDs, backed up DVDs, XVID avis, all seemed pretty smooth.
Perhaps, give a readout of the video properties with g-spot application (windows).

I think there is a german dvd that has something like 20 files ranging all the different common video compression files at varying bitrates and audio. That might be an interesting test product.

I did read in Jun-Aug 2007 that a DMR61 will come out that adds 720p and hdmi. I have only seen in this in a preorder bundle, though.

Have you tried the USB connection? I am a bit concerned that it needs to be FAT formatted. I called the JAMO CSR and Klispch answered and knew very little about the hardware. Very little.

[global_dev]

media choice

I just tried a fat32 WD passport120 (2.5 eide hdd). the new WD passport160 i think are sata 2.5hdds. maybe makes a difference. haven' tried.

Pics are fine, music fine,

DIVX 4 (ATI AVIVIO encode-good level) from MS-DVR and XVID (AUTOGK) from SD HBO view of HD movie cropped in virtualdubmod to eliminate letterboxing, videos not so hot.. played, but choppy.

All relevant media seems fine on DVD or CD.

[Deft]

I've had problems with the DMR60 also. I've tried to burn DVD's, ISO's, IMG's, MPEG's, and even VOB's all i get out of it is 10min, 15min, to even 1hr of a movie and it will skip and stop on me..

When i sell my DVD's in IMG format they have no problems... I've emailed TECH SUPPORT and even called them.. they said to:

1. Burn it slower.. 2x or 4x

and thats it for answers...

So i did.. and still nothing.. I've bought 3 different kinds of DVD-r's

1. FujiFilm DVD-r's
2. Compusa's DVD-r's
and
3. TDK DVD-r's

I understand that the cd's are cheap and well being that the DMR60 can read pretty much everything.. whats the deal??

[atifsh]

i had a sony with similar problems, played pressed dvds fine but otherthen that its was hit n miss. mostly misses... i had to reburn everythuing on verbatims digital movie disks....

now i changed to pioneer model that plays everythinmg including divx/xvid and im very happy. i think u should take back ur dvd and try some other models, some models just dont do well.

[global_dev]

I've had problems with the DMR60 also. I've tried to burn DVD's, ISO's, IMG's, MPEG's, and even VOB's all i get out of it is 10min, 15min, to even 1hr of a movie and it will skip and stop on me..

When i sell my DVD's in IMG format they have no problems... I've emailed TECH SUPPORT and even called them.. they said to:

Burn it slower..

It sounds like something is definitely not right.

My burned DVDs play fine, I even tried playing a HD (i think 1080p) file on a standard TV and it did work, although I couldn't see a bunch of the picture.

I even played xvid with same-named .srt files on the disc and the DMR60 played the subtitles.

perhaps the unit is overheating? I did notice mine gets a bit warm and it snot even in a "rack".

[Deft]

hmm, possible.. but the stand gives in breathing room atleast 5inches..

What cd's do you use global? and have you done anything to the DVD player? what burner do you use? and program?

Also, should i bring it in? i mean i have a 5yr warranty.. and maybe swap it out? i dunno really ERKS me!

[global_dev]

Dmr 60

Your playback doesn't sound like the playback i get from the USB port or the dvd tray .

Out of the box, the unit played PAL and NTSC films. I did do a region free hack, but i realized that my PAL discs were not region encoded. It was my old DVD player that just couldn't play PAL.

While I see people swear by Taiyo Yudens, I have pretty much use what I bought on sale in 2004... on-sale sony 1-2x DVD+R and -RW and in 2006 some 8x(or more) TDK-R recently. I also have used some regular CD-RWs to play some transcoded material to test. All worked fine....

The DVD burner is a Pioneer A108 using MCE2005 on a VGC-RA820G.

I took a look at an application called dvd identifier, just to see some more info about the disks i bought, but nothing really important showed up that I was able to use.

The app I use to burn is Nero ROM backup. All of my videos: DVD camcorder, videos transcoded to mpegs or xvid, are usually burnt that way, with minor exception.

I did notice that some videos if they are not compatible will turn the screen black and then immediately put the player into standby, while others will just not do anything.

Perhaps you could post the a sample of an offending (but not offensive) video file for download and I'll test it out on my DMR60.

5 year warranty? is that the manufacturers or store? Either way, what do you have to lose?

[Markman04]

I have the Jamo DMR60 and let me say that the sound is great. But i have had the hardest time getting anything read through the usb port in the front. Does anyone know what i am suppossed to do? I recently tried my iPod, i thought it would be the easiest thing but my ipod just shows the red X, saying "Don not disconnect". And i set my Jamo to USB and it just says "Waiting". I checked the manual and it says to choose a file mode, but i cant even get to that point on my receiver. Anyone? Help would be greatly appreciated.

Oh yeah, and this manual sucks

[Deft]

Your playback doesn't sound like the playback i get from the USB port or the dvd tray .

Out of the box, the unit played PAL and NTSC films. I did do a region free hack, but i realized that my PAL discs were not region encoded. It was my old DVD player that just couldn't play PAL.

While I see people swear by Taiyo Yudens, I have pretty much use what I bought on sale in 2004... on-sale sony 1-2x DVD+R and -RW and in 2006 some 8x(or more) TDK-R recently. I also have used some regular CD-RWs to play some transcoded material to test. All worked fine....

The DVD burner is a Pioneer A108 using MCE2005 on a VGC-RA820G.

I took a look at an application called dvd identifier, just to see some more info about the disks i bought, but nothing really important showed up that I was able to use.

The app I use to burn is Nero ROM backup. All of my videos: DVD camcorder, videos transcoded to mpegs or xvid, are usually burnt that way, with minor exception.

I did notice that some videos if they are not compatible will turn the screen black and then immediately put the player into standby, while others will just not do anything.

Perhaps you could post the a sample of an offending (but not offensive) video file for download and I'll test it out on my DMR60.

5 year warranty? is that the manufacturers or store? Either way, what do you have to lose?

Hmm, thats odd.. i have a pioneer burner also.. its the DVR-111D and the burner proggie is NERO and Ashampoo.. i dont get it.. and yea what do i have to lose.. but then i have to wait forever for it to get repaired... let alone drive 30mins to get there...

Should i buy just 1x-2x discs? i have been buying the 16x b/c i use them for backup discs for music, dvd iso's etc....

[global_dev]

But i have had the hardest time getting anything read through the usb port in the front. Does anyone know what i am suppossed to do? I recently tried my iPod, i thought it would be the easiest thing but my ipod just shows the red X, saying "Don not disconnect". And i set my Jamo to USB and it just says "Waiting". I checked the manual and it says to choose a file mode, but i cant even get to that point on my receiver. Anyone? Help would be greatly appreciated.

Oh yeah, and this manual sucks

This relates back to my post about storage needing to be formatted FAT32. I don't know the format of iPods; however, the my DAP (sansa e260) also thinks its connected even though the "connection" is not really there. I had no issue with any FAT32 based storage (flash/hdd) for pictures or audio.

I don't know if it has anything to do with mass storage compliance modes. I give it a try again, although I thought I had. I don't think it is indexing anything for the JAMO unit.

You have to realize this is running some type of embedded *nix probably so driver support for partition types might be limited. The reason I think this is because i saw some other type of portable media player that had the exact same GUI.

File mode, I believe, is at the bottom of the screen when you have appropriate media (I don't mean optical or usb, I mean media files on the storage) you'll see three icons (1 photos 1 videos 1 audio), you can navigate there and it'll let you choose what type of media to show. You need to name files appropriately, since i don't think ID3 tags show up, only file names.

Yeah the manual is pretty sparse on a bunch of stuff. The internet doesn't help much either. Trial and error...