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Hi I need to buy a Region Free, VCR Friendly (Macrovision Free), Dual Voltage DVD player for my family in the UK so I can send them baby Video CDs and Movies from the US.
The Region Free and Macro Free is a must have as the only way to connect this thing up to my parents ageing TV would be through their old VCR with its composite and SVHS inputs.
Dual Voltage US and UK would be nice but is not essential, as I can just buy a transformer.
Lord of The Rings the Two Towers came out here two days ago, what a great movie. Should have waited for the extended edition DVD though.
Anyway any ideas?
The Region Free and Macro Free is a must have as the only way to connect this thing up to my parents ageing TV would be through their old VCR with its composite and SVHS inputs.
Dual Voltage US and UK would be nice but is not essential, as I can just buy a transformer.
Lord of The Rings the Two Towers came out here two days ago, what a great movie. Should have waited for the extended edition DVD though.
Anyway any ideas?
Hi I need to buy a Region Free, VCR Friendly (Macrovision Free), Dual Voltage DVD player for my family in the UK so I can send them baby Video CDs and Movies from the US.
The Region Free and Macro Free is a must have as the only way to connect this thing up to my parents ageing TV would be through their old VCR with its composite and SVHS inputs.
Dual Voltage US and UK would be nice but is not essential, as I can just buy a transformer.
Lord of The Rings the Two Towers came out here two days ago, what a great movie. Should have waited for the extended edition DVD though.
Anyway any ideas?
The Region Free and Macro Free is a must have as the only way to connect this thing up to my parents ageing TV would be through their old VCR with its composite and SVHS inputs.
Dual Voltage US and UK would be nice but is not essential, as I can just buy a transformer.
Lord of The Rings the Two Towers came out here two days ago, what a great movie. Should have waited for the extended edition DVD though.
Anyway any ideas?
Either:
Superdrug are selling off their last few DVD players for £39.99, which can be region unlocked and, I think, macrovision unlocked.
SR, of course, having the already unlocked DVD players here. Or, check out Techtronics.com
Superdrug are selling off their last few DVD players for £39.99, which can be region unlocked and, I think, macrovision unlocked.
SR, of course, having the already unlocked DVD players here. Or, check out Techtronics.com
Thanks for the help.
pb, out of the following DVD players which would you recommend? Im looking for a cheap multi-region DVD player to replace playing DVDs on my PS2; and also for the added DVD-R playback etc.
So, which would you recommend out of these:
http://uk.special.reserve.co.uk/ [SPACE] search/special.php?ty=DVDh&sortorder=2a
(the ones £70 and under...)
Cheers
So, which would you recommend out of these:
http://uk.special.reserve.co.uk/ [SPACE] search/special.php?ty=DVDh&sortorder=2a
(the ones £70 and under...)
Cheers
Why? go to www.dvdrhelp.com as it has a long list of most DVD players and tells you what there like and what they can do. So search for each one and see if theres anything one can do that the others cant. Also do you want 5.1? As some players may not have the optical link, or lack other connections you want to use.
Thanks for the tips, 5.1 would be nice but its only for my parents ageing set so I doubt they'll be connecting it to any Surround sound system any time soon.
The more you pay the better sound and vision you get, usually. But if you are watching DVDs on an old TV, or even a fairly new one that doesn't have 100hz mode on it (you'd know because it would have been the biggest selling point of the TV and made it a lot more expensive) and you're not really fussy about the sound (and most people I know can't tell the difference) then the 2 cheaper models from SR are perfect.
Personnally I would either go for the Cyberhome(£64.99) or the Arianet(£69.99). Both do RCE movies when the 2 Ronin players don't state that they can, so they may have trouble playing RCE. Both have built in 5.1 Decoder so you only need to spend £60 on a set of 5.1 speakers to get 5.1. So for a bit extra money your going to get a player that can play RCE and decode 5.1, the £60 Ronin has a 5.1 decoder but doesnt state that it can play RCE.
The Arianet also plays a few more types of disc even though those extras arent common. Also feature Progressive scan if you own a good TV that can do that. I think either the Cyberhome or Arianet should be the choice if you want a cheap DVD player.
pb thats usually true. My friend has a DVD player that cost quite a bit, his parents bought it him for christmas it was a Toshiba, just a region 2 player. Now his plays DVDs ok but cant play VCDs, well it can but the sound is out of sync. These cheap players that are only £70 have just a good a picture as a £300 Sony player or what ever. The expensive player is going to be better, but not by much. Also the cheap players usually deal with VCD, SVCD, DVDRs much better. My friend has a old £500 Sony DVD player and it only plays DVDs and thats about it. And with 5.1 sound kits dealing with the sound then I dont think theres a issue there either. If you use the TV speakers you dont get brilliant sound from them anyway, unless you got a big screen with seperate speakers.
Cheap DVD players are definately worth the money. I spend £120 on my Yelo 800 over a year ago and have been 100% happy. If I had to get another player I think it would be the Cyberhome or Arianet, maybe one of the Kiss players as playing Xvid and Divx would be nice.
The Arianet also plays a few more types of disc even though those extras arent common. Also feature Progressive scan if you own a good TV that can do that. I think either the Cyberhome or Arianet should be the choice if you want a cheap DVD player.
pb thats usually true. My friend has a DVD player that cost quite a bit, his parents bought it him for christmas it was a Toshiba, just a region 2 player. Now his plays DVDs ok but cant play VCDs, well it can but the sound is out of sync. These cheap players that are only £70 have just a good a picture as a £300 Sony player or what ever. The expensive player is going to be better, but not by much. Also the cheap players usually deal with VCD, SVCD, DVDRs much better. My friend has a old £500 Sony DVD player and it only plays DVDs and thats about it. And with 5.1 sound kits dealing with the sound then I dont think theres a issue there either. If you use the TV speakers you dont get brilliant sound from them anyway, unless you got a big screen with seperate speakers.
Cheap DVD players are definately worth the money. I spend £120 on my Yelo 800 over a year ago and have been 100% happy. If I had to get another player I think it would be the Cyberhome or Arianet, maybe one of the Kiss players as playing Xvid and Divx would be nice.