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£100 dvd player - any suggestions?

Kid Brunch (Competent) posted this on Tuesday, 27th November 2001, 17:27

HELLO

Anyone know a decent dvd player, preferably region free or handset-hackable for around the £100 mark? Also, any good places where I can buy it from?

Thanks for your help.

RE: £100 dvd player - any suggestions?

Rob E Taylor (Mostly Harmless) posted this on Tuesday, 27th November 2001, 18:20

I`m well impressed with the Ferguson DV400FE I got from Safeway. They had it going for £99.99 on special offer. Picture seems very clean and free from blockyness, and with the hacks (listed on this site) is multiregion (switchable to exact region required or 0 for most dics) and plays VCDs.
Won`t play CD-R`s or CD-RW`s though.
Currys have the player for £150 on their website at the moment, even at that price it seems a good buy.

RE: £100 dvd player - any suggestions?

Paul H (Harmless) posted this on Tuesday, 27th November 2001, 20:47

I would recommend the Dansai 852, £99.45 from Tesco.

It is multiregional with a hack (obtained from the region hack forum), macrovision free and plays VCDs and MP3`s (not sure about CD-R/RW`s).

The picture and sound is brilliant, just as good (if not better than) as much more expensive players. It is slim and silver, and looks very nice (unlike players like the Cyberhome 528, which is very bulky).

Therefore, I would have no problem in recommending this fantastic player.
I have already tried 3 other machines over the last few months.

Cheers, Paul.

RE: £100 dvd player - any suggestions?

Kid Brunch (Competent) posted this on Wednesday, 28th November 2001, 09:17

Nice one, thanks! Think I`ll check these two out for the father in law...so they better be good!

RE: £100 dvd player - any suggestions?

][V][agic][V][an (Mostly Harmless) posted this on Thursday, 29th November 2001, 21:12

Cyberhome 528 - nice picture and sound,MP3,CDRW playback,Dolby Decoder £99.95 - well worth a look

RE: £100 dvd player - any suggestions?

stubags (Mostly Harmless) posted this on Thursday, 29th November 2001, 23:47

get yourself a dansai 852 if you can get your hands on one from tesco
plays anything mp3 dvd svcd vcd cd macro off multi region with a hand set hack plays copys to stu

This item was edited on Thursday, 29th November 2001, 23:48

RE: £100 dvd player - any suggestions?

spiderman (Harmless) posted this on Sunday, 9th December 2001, 15:54

I am pleased too - but tried the hack and the disc played in black and white?? Did you have to do anything else, eg adjust the settings in the menu? or did your hack work first time?
Any info would help
thanks in advance
Mark

RE: £100 dvd player - any suggestions?

yin (Harmless) posted this on Sunday, 9th December 2001, 23:36

goodmans gvcd124 £110 multi region with remote hack and also macro free
plays all formats included mp3 cd-r but not cd rw

This item was edited on Sunday, 9th December 2001, 23:38

RE: £100 dvd player - any suggestions?

deanos75 (Competent) posted this on Monday, 10th December 2001, 21:52

Yes the dansai plays CDR`s , no problem at all.

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