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Any recommendations for a DVD Player at the £40 mark that will play anything thrown at it (with the exception of Divx of course, unless they can be bought for this price now?!!).

I would like to get a few people a DVD player for Christmas.

Thanks!!

Pacific 1002 from Asda. Think it costs about £45. I haven`t got one but I will be soon. Heard they play everything, even mp3`s off a DVD.

Check out the review. www.dvd.reviewer.co.uk/reviews/hardware.asp?index=9581

Aria Technology have a Divx DVD (firmware upgradeable) for £41 today, on their Deals of the Day page. Looks good, and can be made multi region too using these tips from Multiman on their faqs section.

Multiregion instructions:

a. No disc status;
b. Enter to setup menu;
c. Press numeric button 0~6 (input you want region code); / [pls use your remote control handset to operate all these following up steps]
d. Press mute button;
e. press left cursor button;
f. press right cursor button;
g. Press ok button

P.s: Under NO DISC condition, you press 8 times of the 0 button then it wl appears the region code number before you set up to change.

Courtesy of Multiman.

Divx DVD Player

The Pacific 1002 (mentioned above) really is superb and now that they`ve made it look good as well,it`s a no-brainer for £34.
It used to look truly awful,but now looks really really good.
I bought two at the weekend as christmas presents.

Aldi are selling their Medion/Tevion one for under 30 quid this week

Hi

Apologies if this is a really daft question, but if a DVD player is capable of playing DivX files, does the DivX file have to be copied onto a DVD R/RW disc, or will the player read it from a CD in the same way as, for example, an mpeg file?

Many thanks

Bowfer, would you know if the new Pacific 1002 uses the same hack as the 1002W? I was just about to recommend to someone they got one, when I found out they`d changed the player.