Sub £20 DVD players - current offers (merged)

boatman

boatman wrote:

cheapest DVD player i've seen is the Durabrand 1005 from ASDA for £17.97. Its a portable player so handy for taking on holiday and plugging it in to the hotel TV, can't go wrong for that money.

http://www.lenoxx.com/2005/audiosystems/images/DVD1002.jpg
DVD1002.jpg (JPEG Image, 700x267 pixels)

The remote hack to make the player multi region is here:

http://www.dvd.reviewer.co.uk/info/multiregion/full/Duraband1005.asp
DVD Reviewer - Multi-Region Hacks - Duraband DVD-1005

If for some reason it doesn't work try this one:

http://www.avforums.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-269156.html
Hack needed for Durabrand DVD 1005 [Archive] - AV Forums

taney

boatman wrote:

cheapest DVD player i've seen is the Durabrand 1005 from ASDA for £17.97. Its a portable player so handy for taking on holiday and plugging it in to the hotel TV, can't go wrong for that money.

http://www.lenoxx.com/2005/audiosystems/images/DVD1002.jpg
DVD1002.jpg (JPEG Image, 700x267 pixels)

Hi,
Can you please send the link for it?Is it available online on ASdawebsite?Is it multiregion?I am buying for the first time so don't know much abt the specs...i hope its good
Thanx

Weymouth_Man

thomthom wrote:

Got the Acoustic Solutions from Argos, seems pretty good. £19.99. Mine didn't play multi region straight out of the box but went on line, got the easy 5 second handset hack and now it plays everything I've tried - normal stuff plus jpeg, region 1 & 4 dvds recorded in NTSC format and DVD-RW. Quality is good for what you pay, seems better suited to the ordinary 21" 4:3 TV, rather than the more demanding widescreen 28". Highly recommended as a secondary player.

We have one also from argos, acoustic solutions, £24.99p, it switched on & was ready for multi region, as you say great for a second player. :j

boatman

taney wrote:

Hi,
Can you please send the link for it?Is it available online on ASdawebsite?Is it multiregion?I am buying for the first time so don't know much abt the specs...i hope its good
Thanx

Its only available in store. It may already be multi-region, ifs its not use the links i have posted above to unlock it.

Amba_Gambla

the unlocking didn't work for my tesco one.... i just get a hand(?) in the top RHS ......

Amba_Gambla

Amba_Gambla wrote:

the unlocking didn't work for my tesco one.... i just get a hand(?) in the top RHS ......

finally found one that works.......

1. Press the Open button on your remote control to open the drive tray
2. Press the Setup button on your remote control
3. Press the Next button on your remote control
4. Press the Next button on your remote control
5. Press the Next button on your remote control
6. Press the Next button on your remote control
7. The currently selected region should be displayed on the onscreen display
8. Using the Left button on your remote control, change the region to 1 for region 1, 2 for region 2, and so on, or 255 for multi-region playback
9. Press the Setup button on your remote control


-one bit that confused me was the next button - it's the >> on the line above the four directional buttons.......

just watching 'Paint your wagon' which i bought in the US! wooohoooo!

ardman123

Can anyone recommend any good DVD players out there at the moment as i doubt that the ones mentioned in this thread are still avilable.

Thanks,

Ardman123

Amba_Gambla

the £17 tesco value one is still on sale... There were stacks and stacks of them the other day...

scanner_2

does the asda one play divx?

boatman

The adsa durabrand 1005 is still around at £17.97, don't think it does divx