Cheap DVD Player - £17 Asda

Saetana

I was just checking out the Cheap DVD Deals list and the cheapest on there at the moment is £19.99 instore at Tesco. We have just bought one from Asda instore for £17 (from their Smartprice range) or if you get your groceries delivered from there you can order it through your shopping trolley online as part of your normal order (no extra delivery charge). It is nice and small, plain black and is absolutely fine if you just want a basic DVD player. Remote control comes complete with a set of suitable batteries. Very easy to set up. It does not come with a scart lead however (as with most cheap players) but it does have a set of connection leads suitable for older TVs with no Scart connection. We already had a spare Scart lead so no extra cost involved for us as least.

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I_luv_cats

Hi

I picked up a Lowry (never heard of that company name before) Compact DVD player @ Morrisons after spotting it on their website. I had to ask for it as it wasn't on the shelf instore. Bargain @ £17

It came with a scart lead, phono lead and remote with batts.

It seems to operate ok and a bargain for my bedroom!

Wicca303

I had to return the Asda smart price one after 3 weeks, it kept freezing and making the picture go all pixelated.

I got store credit and bought the Toshiba one for £35.

Freebyman

I agree with wicca, just had to chuck an asda "special" in the bin as it was outside the 12 months guarantee, only used it a couple of times as well. This was the third one we had as well, fortunately the other two went within a couple of months. My advice would be is with these items - avoid!!!

joesaunt

I have the Asda Smart Price one and have had it for 18 months and no problems at all with it! Gets used about 5 times a week, it does what it says on the tine, plays dvd's...nothing else. I tiook it out of the box, plugged it it and started to watch a dvd, suits me down to the ground.

tonyhutt

A friend had one, bought for £35 from Maplin in May 2010. Recently it wouldn't play a DVD without continually jerking, which played OK in another player and was in good condition. I used a DVD lens cleaner disk (with little brushes underneath) once and after that it the DVD played OK without jerking at all. I was amazed the lens cleaner worked.

Personally I wouldn't buy a DVD player without S-video or component video output because you can't use SCART with most projectors. I don't know whether the SCART has RGB outputs but I doubt it.

Inner_Zone

tonyhutt wrote: »

Personally I wouldn't buy a DVD player without S-video or component video output because you can't use SCART with most projectors. I don't know whether the SCART has RGB outputs but I doubt it.

RGB is part of the Scart specification, whether or not it is implemented is up to the individual manufacturer.