[digibod]

£699 for a very nice panasonic with an onboard dts decoder

cant think of the model number, it was rather large and that was back in 1999

tell a lie, it wasent the first, the first was a horrible black phillips thing, it was nasty.the panasonic came a few months later

[rufnek2k6]

30, we kinda caught on pretty late. but this one only played proper dvds, no audio/mp3/vcd/copy so then I bought another one. £20 and it plays everything I throw at it

[Smerph]

£120 for a Wharfedale back in 2000. Still works fine and has just been shipped off to my parents as I have a Panny BD50 now.

[Jarrak]

£440 for a US Panasonic A310 R1 import back in '98.

[socmwils23]

£300 for a hitachi that was region free. still got it to this day although its not in use anymore

[mattyl149]

£400 for a Sony, pricematched to £300. It had DTS, DD 5.1, but that was about it. It did not play DVD/+/-/R/RW. It only had S-Video and no scart. There was a radio with RDS. There were five small satellite speakers and a sub-woofer (which was badly scratched by a workman). I balanced the satellite speakers which kept falling off and the wires kept breaking which I kept having to strip back. It started distorting the picture of DVDs and green blocks kept coming up on the screen during playback. It was replaced 18 months ago with a JVC which plays everything except SACD and has component, S-Video and RGB Scart, but no HDMI. It also has standing speakers which are much, much better. Both are not region free though

[eugenespeed]

£200 for a Phillips back in 2003. Got it from Littlewoods Catalogue.

It broke after 6 months, traded it for a Panasonic which I still have now.

Got a DVD recorder now, but it isn't multi region, so the Panasonic still comes in handy for the old region 1s.

[Jittlov]

Panasonic a110 for £399.

When I bought it there was only about 10 movies available on Region 2 DVD in the UK.

You can get something much better than the a110 now for less than £20, which is why i'm holding off buying Blu-Ray.

[sancheeez]

Some Acoustic Solutions one from Richer Sounds in .... at a guess .... around 2000/2001 .... ish?

Cost about £130 I think.

Still got it. It lives in the spare room now and still works perfectly.

[digibod]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jittlov

Panasonic a110 for £399.

When I bought it there was only about 10 movies available on Region 2 DVD in the UK.

You can get something much better than the a110 now for less than £20, which is why i'm holding off buying Blu-Ray.

it may play all the discs but for £20, it is junk

[minimalistmatt]

I had a Tosh that cost £300. It had a dual tray so you could load 2 discs. Not sure why, but I wish I still had it for novelty value. These days I'm on a £20 Tevion jobbie, not marvelous but I was made up that it had 'progressive scan' <whoo!>

[sirpipe]

£20. Why pay more?

[Pete Baker.]

I was a very early adopter, so early you couldn't get UK discs til about a month after. I remember there were 4 releases, inc Jerry Maguire and Jumanji which I bought! (Also had some american imports like Sphere) It was a dual speed PC drive, Hitachi, cost about 300 quid. The PC was a 233 MHz, so I had to get a hardware decoder card - Creative Dxr2 (cost around 120 quid). Remember being amazed by the quality at the time - S Video into a 26" 4:3 tv. I remember also paying 350 quid for the CD writer in the same machine, Dual speed! Wooo.

Next was a Bush one from asda! - Just over 200 quid
Then a "Cyberhome" from Richersounds (about 100)
Philips DVD recorder 220 (worst thing I ever bought)
Couple of cheap portables
Samsung DVD recorder 150

Now PS3 for blu-ray!

[prakb]

mine was an ecplise from richer sounds which cost £160 in july 2001, three years away i had given it away to my ex gf as i just decided to use a dvd drive in my pc and the prices had come down so much!!!

[Jittlov]

Quote:

Originally Posted by digibod

it may play all the discs but for £20, it is junk

How so? My front room £20 Tesco player beats the hell out of the old Panasonic picture/sound quality wise, and has lasted longer so far.

It wont be long before we see Blu-Ray players for around £50, then maybe i'll buy one...

[Glawster2002]

£600 for a Nakamichi DVD-10s in May 2000.

It was a top quality DVD player back then and even today there aren't too many that are better...

[fmradiotuner1]

I think the first one I got was when the PS2 came out.
So must of been around £250.

[Keefy-boy]

i paid £560 for a chipped pansasonic from Techtronics in Jan 99.

i recall going to buy my first dvd (Fallen with Denz Washington) there was a choice of around 10 in a special display in HMV i think!

[lwtincolour]

I paid £450 for a R1 only Toshiba player from The Disc Emporium in Knebworth in early 1998.

3 months later multiregion had been cracked properly so I swapped it for a Pioneer 505 for £500 - but the lipsynch on some discs was awful

[AlosondroAlegré]

£130 grundig from currys in dec '01. great pic though.

[roddydogs]

Acoustic Solutions still working after 7 years blimy must have been different from the two i had, both went wrong within playing about 10 discs.
Got an Amuseer from Superdrug, £9.98!, works ok form my i DVD a year that i watch, nreed to be switched off and on from the socket sometimes to get it to work!

[MrGiles2]

I recall buying my first DVD player from Currys for about £85 about 6 years ago. Lasted about a year.

Bought another 6 models since, including multi-region from Richersounds. The Cambridge Audio which is my main DVD player is a swell machine.

Recently added Sony BD500 Blu-Ray which cost me £599, now got 5 DVD players added to my system which is wired to the Yamaha Amplifier with 10 speakers. One is a DVD Recorder, the Panasonic, another is Samsung combi DVD and Video player, and also got another Cambridge Audio which I use for playing CDs.

I try to avoid using the same machine all the time since I have noticed that the average life span of a DVD player is about 18 months. So having a few wired in, makes them last longer.

[amaninspired]

I bought a Sony DVP-S325 for £270 in June 1999 or June 2000. I think it's more likely the latter date.

The original selling price of the machine had been £350, but the replacement DVP-S335 had just been released with an RRP of £300, so I was able to neogitate a discount at Scottish Power (when they still had High Street stores)!

It was my only DVD player until I bought a Sony RDR-HXD710 DVD/Hard Disk Recorder. After that, it probably sat around for over a year until I bought a flat panel TV for the bedroom; and it now sits under that playing DVDs I watch in bed.

It won't play recordable DVDs, but the picture quality is still as good as any DVD player that I have come across.

[AVTalk]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Keefy-boy

i paid £560 for a chipped pansasonic from Techtronics in Jan 99.

As the above.

The last DVD player I bought cost me £900. Which is quite amazing given that my Blu-Ray player only cost me $499 in the States earlier this year.

[coolbeans252]

September or October 1999, Panasonic L50 portable player £800 still have it, but the screen no longer works