Anyone know anything about these players; who makes them, what is actually inside them as for hardware.

My friend bought one, not sure of the model #, at a Boxing Day door-crasher special for $17.00 CAD. The thing apparently plays DVD-R because it gets to the 720x480 stuff OK but when on 352x480 video it is all blocky and the peoples heads and bodies are just large blocks. Heh, the guy said it looked kind of cool and 3D-like but that is not how they were intended to look. the discs I gave him play fine on both of my players and another guy's.