My Standalone DVD Player is.....

[energy80s]

But would you trust anything sold by Jeremy Beadle!! And the cheapest one is actually £56. I think I'd spend a few quid more on a half decent machine.

[Hardcoreruss]

Yeah Beadle is a bit dodge but it plays the lot out of the box no needsfor hacks. When my dvd player goes in the bedroom I think I might bung beadle some of my har earned cash and if I ever do i will let you know.

[dvdhelpr]

i bought one of the beadle or beagle dvd what ever his name is. its better than the cyberhome ch dvd 400 that i recently bough. suprised! btw i can only get the cyber home dvd to play dvds at 3000kbs MAX. pathetic.

[Geforce]

Sony DVP-NS325B main player, bought for $80. Also a Portland PVD-1000 region-free player used for pal dvds, paid $35. The picture on both looks great

[DTSL06]

1) Citizen 3830 (Norcent "GOLDEN" 300 clone) stock (plays PAL/NTSC, region free hack)
2) Citizen 3830 with AFFO firmware with swapable HD mod replacing DVD drive (plays PAL/NTSC, Mac Vis and region hack)
3) Citizen 3830 with Dolphin firmware (plays PAL/NTSC, Mac Vis and region hack)
4) Tosihba 2108 stock (only plays NTSC commercial DVD's, no DVD+/- R/RW)
5) Panisonic RP91 stock (NTSC, now mostly used as DVD-Audio player)
6) Panasonic F65 stock (NTSC, 5 changer) used as primary DVD player.

[oldfart13]

Norcent DP-300 - region hacked. Non macrovision hackable. I settled on this model since it plays PAL anamorphic widescreen with the correct aspect ratio while the earlier model that is macro hackable does not.

Malata 393 - region hacked - great for my Japanese discs in my bedroom.

RCA 5220P - factory standard

PS2 version 1 - factory standard

Apex AD-600A - macrovision hacked

Apex AD-1500 - macrovision and region hacked.

Panasonic E80 - factory standard

[hech54]

mY Sampo's are just killers, but got a Sony also...
Sampo's can do wonders....like ntsc>pal convs
Even can play dvd's as data like mpgs w/o conv
to vcd, even play jpegs now, dont forget region
hacks....no divx though...

Which Sampo model number do you own? I need a DVD player that can convert....and one that can be confirmed as being able to convert by a human being...

[energy80s]

i bought one of the beadle or beagle dvd what ever his name is. its better than the cyberhome ch dvd 400 that i recently bough. suprised! btw i can only get the cyber home dvd to play dvds at 3000kbs MAX. pathetic.

Very surprised at this as my 400 will play any damned bitrate. Are you sure you're using good media.

[will_sickly_33+]

The cheapest DVD players in existance in the UK are £80 (about $125).

My goodness, in just 10 months this is almost down to a third, you can pick them up for around the £30 mark, and they're not bad either.
How quickly hardware prices tumble.
Plus, £80.00 is now worth $145.00
Bill

[energy80s]

Indeed, its got to the point where instead of buying the player and getting a free movie, you will buy the movie and get a free player!

[EddyH]

fun to look back at this now! the price seems to have hit an equilibrium - you might be lucky to find a £25 player but there certainly aren't any £20 ones..... mind you how cheap do you want it! There comes a point where the plastic box is the most expensive part... i think the CD players and cheap-shit CD/tape/radio boomboxes available at Tesco demonstrate this... the prices still gradually come down, but less than a pound a time, so now you can buy one for something stupid like £16.43