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

Disc Compatibility	CD, CD-R/RW, DVD, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW
Video Format Compatibility	MPEG 1/2/4, DivX 3/4/5/Pro/6, XviD, NERO
Audio Format Compatibility	MP3, AC3
Photo Format Compatibility	JPEG
Video Output Format Standard	PAL, NTSC
Audio Output Format	Dolby Digital, DTS, Stereo, Mono
DVD-Video	Languages, sub-titles, slow motion, fast forward and backward, multi-angle, zoom
MPEG/DIVX	Slow motion, fast forward and backward, zoom, Goto (DivX 6 only)
Audio CD	Fast forward and backward, random
Parental Control	With password
Power Supply	AC-100-240V, 50/60 Hz
Video Connector	S-Video, composite video, component YUV
Audio Connector	Audio L/R, digital audio (coaxial, optical)

Power Supply	90V - 240V AC 50/60 Hz
Power Consumption	25 W