Format support is the usual stuff: DVD, VCD, SVCD, MP3, JPEG, DivX (v1-v5)/ XviD / MPEG-4. Most of the movies played back fine, but prolonged viewing (say, around an hour into the movie) of DVDs made the frame rate drop to half, though the audio was fine. I had to pause and play the movie for this to be fixed.
The output from the player is also the usual set: composite output, component output (for progressive scan, which is also supported), S-Video output, SCART and VGA output as well. Audio is taken care of by the regular 6-channel analog output and also digital optical out. The TD200 does Dolby Digital decoding, but there's no sign of DTS.
The zoom feature in the player has issues. By default, the picture is already around 20% zoomed in (when zoom is off), so to get the actual end-to-end picture, you need to keep pressing the zoom button till you get to Zoom 1/2, which is actually zooming out, instead of zooming in. The problem with this (or any other zoom level) is the prominent display of the zoom level that refuses to go away unless you turn zoom off.
The remote controller is also your standard garden variety with all the functions that you'd expect from it. However, the arrangement of the most key buttons - such as the play, pause, forward, next etc. are absolutely, unintuively laid out. A good remote always has buttons logically grouped together, but this one has the play button on one corner and the fast forward/rewind buttons on the other bottom corner. This is not easy to figure out and remember, so you'll keep looking into the remote before pressing any button, or end up skipping the chapter instead of just fast forwarding the scene.
There is also no screen saver in the TD200. With new age LCD and plasma TVs, a screensaver that automatically kicks in after a few minutes is really important, but then if you have an LCD TV, you obviously aren't in the market for a sub-3k DVD player! On the other hand, at least it doesn't go and and turn off like some Mitashi
The MRP for the MCC TurboPix DVD TD200 is around Rs. 3,800, which means you can probably find it for close to Rs. 3,000 at most places, but if you're looking for a good DVD/DivX player, I think you should rather spend around Rs. 2,000 extra on a Philips DVP5140/50. If you're looking more at the USB and memory card support, the TD200 could be it, but it's not always going to work with all USB devices. I'd say, hold on till a better brand comes out with similar features.


