how much did you pay for your first DVD player?

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sancheeez

02-09-2008

Originally Posted by 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.”

You have 5 DVD players all currently connected to your amp?!?!? What an odd setup!

Like I say, my Acoustic Solutions one from about 7 years ago still works fine.

The Xoro one currently in my living room is also still going strong. Had that maybe 4 or 5 years?

That one cost about £100 I think shipped from Germany (via Estonia ..... some sort of tax dodge I'm guessing). It was one of the first DivX compliant DVD players on the market. I bought it when they first appeared (you couldn't pick up a DivX compatible player in places like Richer Sounds then, never mind a supermarket like you can now!) as I was sick to death of converting video from the internet to SVCD so they would play on the Acoustic Solutions player!

Like I say, still works, and still works pretty well too. Even 5 years later it still manages probably about 90% of the DivX files I throw at it.

Plan to upgrade it soon though. Gonna go for one of the newer Xoro models. The current one made a good enough impression to make me repeat purchase.

liamhere

02-09-2008

sony......£499....now in the bottom of a wardrobe

MrGiles2

02-09-2008

Sancheez, in reply, yes I have 5 DVD players connected because I have co-axial, optical and AV leads as well. Also, 2of them are connected via HDMI leads.

Plenty of connections on my amplifier!

sancheeez

03-09-2008

I think I have about 6 consoles of varying ages connected to my amp, but only one DVD player!

(If I don't count the consoles capable of playing DVD's!)

ClarkF1

03-09-2008

£30 for first stand-alone and £40 for the one in my PC

xxTinkerbellexx

03-09-2008

£120 for a Toshiba Best Buy multi-region 6.5 years ago

Norbert5

03-09-2008

£40 in Asda about 5 years ago. then an AMW with 5.1 sound for about £35

markybaby

03-09-2008

£500 for a chipped pioneer 505 in 1998. Still going strong - albeit at my sister in laws

Nick_2005

04-09-2008

Originally Posted by 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!”

I got a Tosh from them too, mid 99 cost around £300
It's a chipped U.S model that came with a brick of a step down transformer. Was still using it as my main player till about six months ago. Now using a 40 quid philips upscaler.

Jimmy Connors

23-09-2008

Mine was a £200 machine made by LG. It came with 10 free discs. I doubt they were free. That must have been in 2002. I am on my 3rd LG machine now. They do not seem to last very long.

Damaja

24-09-2008

Mine was a Toshiba which was adapted to multi-region for £299 back in 2000.

Ellie666

24-09-2008

£650 for a chipped sony dvps7700 in late 1998 (and that was trade price)which i still use to this day - although awaiting on delivery of a bdps350 player.

btw if anyone can make use of this (for a few quid) pm me!!!

Kojack

25-09-2008

A Chipped Pioneer 505 in 1999 $950 or £450, my mum has it now & it still plays fine.

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