DVD Players In Australia?

[MicoMan]

I am in the UK and want to send DVD-R's made on my Panasonic E50 DVD recorder to friends who live near Perth.

They dont have a DVD yet so I need to know where they could get the cheapest one that will play my DVD-R's?

Also will it work with and old TV?

They do cheap players here in supermakets her, do they do the same there?

They dont have a PC so no buying of the net.

Any info apprecaited

[hech54]

I don't think any DVD Recorder puts a Region Code on it's creations....and PAL is PAL no matter what continent you are on....so I'd say MOST of the battle is won so far.

[MicoMan]

Thanks, but region code is not the problem.

The Panasonic E50 makes a DVD-R with its own menu which makes it not as compatible as a computer made DVD-R.

[bunyip]

Yes you can pick up cheap stand-alone DVD players in department stores, supermarkets, electronic stores etc. for example 'DSE' has stores all over the country inc. Perth and suburbs - it gives you an idea of some of the local choices.
http://www.dse.com.au/cgi-bin/dse.filereader?3ff20d0b091a24822740c0a87f9c06ac+EN/catalogs/CTG0001581
They can also check out stores like KMART, BIGW, BINGLEE, to name a few.

They may have some difficulty if their TV is very old and doesn't have at least RCA sockets.
Also some DVD players only have s-video out, which old TVs don't support so they need to be careful in their choice.
But if they are running a VCR at present they may be OK.

Stores will generally let you try a DVD disk in the player before you buy so it would be a good idea to send them a sample first so they could check it in the preferred player. It seems an oddity, but often the cheapest players seem to support the most disk variations.