Sub £20 DVD players - current offers (merged)

RedOnRed · 2 December 2005 at 3:20PM

Get a highly rated CyberHome CH-DVD400 Multi Region Capable DVD Player for £19.99 at Amazon. It really is the best DVD player you can get for this sort of money and will play just about anything you can throw at it.

I got one of these myself when it was £24.99 and it's brill.

pesky2 · 2 December 2005 at 6:27PM

Have already ordered now, so you think the one you have quoted above is better if so may change my mind.

silps · 2 December 2005 at 9:19PM

RedOnRed wrote:

Get a highly rated CyberHome CH-DVD400 Multi Region Capable DVD Player for £19.99 at Amazon. It really is the best DVD player you can get for this sort of money and will play just about anything you can throw at it.

I got one of these myself when it was £24.99 and it's brill.

Have a look at this link for the US Amazon site http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000A0AJH/ref=pd_ts_c_th_1_5/002-0351669-6375277?%5Fencoding=UTF8

Different model number but looks exactly the same in the picture and works out at $19.99 after rebates. Wow thats about £11-12, maybe a sign of things to come.

RedOnRed · 2 December 2005 at 9:36PM

silps wrote:

Have a look at this link for the US Amazon site http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000A0AJH/ref=pd_ts_c_th_1_5/002-0351669-6375277?%5Fencoding=UTF8

Different model number but looks exactly the same in the picture and works out at $19.99 after rebates. Wow thats about £11-12, maybe a sign of things to come.

Not sure exactly how the "Mail In Rebate" works, but it's academic as they won't ship here anyway - but I do see your point.

Stateside prices are always cheaper. That's why US Amazon (and many others) won't ship to the UK.

silps · 2 December 2005 at 9:45PM

RedOnRed wrote:

Not sure exactly how the "Mail In Rebate" works, but it's academic as they won't ship here anyway - but I do see your point.

Stateside prices are always cheaper. That's why US Amazon (and many others) won't ship to the UK.

Sounds like "rip off Britain" as usual, with the pound being so strong you would think it would be cheaper here as they are all manufactured in one country and then imported. I am sure there probably is a legitamate reason for price differences and I am sure people have written volumes on the subject but as a simple consumer the internet does make the world a smaller a place and its easier to compare prices.

RedOnRed · 2 December 2005 at 10:17PM

silps wrote:

I am sure there probably is a legitamate reason for price differences

The difference is VAT and funding the NHS.

The NHS is a bottomless pit of funding requirements. Take it away and say goodbye to a lot of heavy taxation.

Most of our fuel and road tax goes on it too.

shysally2004 · 3 December 2005 at 4:49PM

swood75729 wrote:

Can anyone suggest a good DVD recorer/palyer that Plays formats: DVD-RW/DVD+RW/DVD/DVD Audio/Audio CD CD-R/CDRW/
MP3 playback/JPEG picture and supports DivX and Xvid encoded AVI files

Thank goodness for this forum I was just about to buy one from currys but didn't know that I wanted the DivX thingy

Any help greatly appreciated

Sorry it's late but....

Anyone looking for something that records DVD-R/RW AND DVD+R/RW

http://www.savastore.com/productinfo/product.aspx?catalog_name=Savastore&product_id=10285168&pid=0&rstrat=7415

Also, does DivX and Xvid, mp3 etc. etc.

Basically it's very very good (providing you don't want Progressive Scan)

AlanS · 4 March 2006 at 12:44PM

Just bought a Technika 103 DVD Player from Tesco for £17.97

Slimline mirror finish front panel
Full feature remote control
Widescreen compatible
SCART
S-VHS Output
Component video output for progressive scan
Co-axial output for digital quality audio

Tried a couple of DVD+R's ... play just fine !

Also plays CD audios, and MP3's & displays JPEGs

Make it multi-region by doing this:

turn on tv and dvd
open tray
type 9736 screen should show region 2
type 0
screen should show region 0
wait for screen to clear
there you go all done

Tried this hack and it now plays all my Region 1 discs.

Looks pretty good .... especially at that price !!

aScottishBloke · 4 March 2006 at 1:27PM

RedOnRed wrote:

The difference is VAT and funding the NHS.

The NHS is a bottomless pit of funding requirements. Take it away and say goodbye to a lot of heavy taxation.

Most of our fuel and road tax goes on it too.

Wouldn't swap our NHS system for anything in the world. Sure it has it's flaws, but it's one heck of an organisation.

I'm currently relying on the NHS a the mo, and there's not another organisation in the world i'd trust with my life. So what, if you infer that a few extra bucks VAT goes towards funding the service.

Pretty ignorant comment from you imho.

B

jpe20 · 8 March 2006 at 11:58PM

Hi folks,
Just bought this player (Technika 103 for 18quid from Tesco) for my mum and dad and I am experiencing an audio glitch/slight jump in sound as the film plays through from the end of one chapter to another. I am just wondering do u experience a similar problem. (I am a bit of a perfectionist sometimes!!!)

Other than that the player seems to have excellent picture etc for the price.

I just can't decide if the sound problem (minor as it is) is a design fault or a specific unit fault.

Oh I am just using the stereo inputs on the parents telly (line in). I have also selected stereo where I can in the DVD menus.

Jules

So far just played Kingdom of Heaven and The Interpreter

I might just go and see if I can find a firmware update (I doubt it on such a cheap player!!)

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