Originally Posted by JurassicMark:
“The description of that product on e-bay is a bit misleading, there's no such thing as a full HD DVD player, the best it can do is upscale to HD.
If you can live without a recording facility, then I would go for a blu-ray player with multi-region DVD capabilities. Don't know your budget but it seems like you're not wanting to spend too much, this <snip>”
I'm not sure what benefit Blu-ray would be for me as none of my dvds are blu-ray? I spent time last night looking around and notice brand makes, LG, Panasonic, Samsung etc
player only can be bought quite cheap. But the price rises significantly for one with HDD, even used or 'seller refurbished'. Strange when you consider the cost of hard drives has plummeted over the years (i paid £56 two years ago for a 2tb drive in my pc, they might even be less now).
I could afford to splash out on brand new 'top of the range all singing n dancing' machine, but with such a large price gap difference between player/recorder and player only, i'm left wondering if it really is worthwhile.
Originally Posted by AlanO:
“You won't find "decent" DVD players any more - the price drops have seen to that and even the "big brand" DVD players are nothing special now. But surely you can't be surprised when, on average, a DVD player costs less than a night on the beer.”
As mentioned in a post i bought a supermarket cheapie last year for £15 and it's a piece of junk. It plays a disc all the way through non-stop but try using the fast forward, pause or skip button and it 'locks' up.
I'd like one that does the job properly and gives good results! It wouldn't bother me what it said on the front of the thing as long as it worked in all functions!