"Keith G" wrote in message
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"RdM" wrote in message
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"Keith G" wrote:
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on Tue, 11 Nov 2003 23:55:37 -0000,
: It's getting silly now.
:
: My brother has finally been tempted into buying a DVDP as his
sister-in-law,
: who works in Sainsbury's, can get one for £31.50 would you believe!!!
(Staff
: discount from £35 retail!)
:
: How can you go wrong at this price? - They play CD/R/RW/MP3s
naturally.
You
: couldn't buy a secondhand CDP for that and if it crapped out after
only
a
: year or so, it wouldn't be a disaster, would it?
:
: (One snag is actually getting hold of one, apparently - the
Sainsbury's
: staff are snapping them all up as they come in for Christmas
presents!)

What brands, out of interest?
These went down to NZD$129 (about GBP$48 now) before they sold out.
http://www.audioenz.co.nz/2003/mizuda_331k.shtml
There are similiarly priced Musteks about, too.
(I still can't afford one yet though!)



I don't know yet - he don't get it until tomorrow (it's a 'sister in law
is
buying it' kinda thing).

I suspect it'll be a Mico as Swim was up in Dundee (that's in Scotland -
not
Dunedin NZ!!) recently and there were selling Mico DVD Recorders for 199
UKP. Which is very cheap, but not to be recommended as they are based on
the
Philips +RW engine (AFAIK) which, I'm sorry to say (especially as I have
a
sodding Ricoh +RW burner) is actually a pile o' ****e!

(The only DVD Recorder which makes sense is the Panasonic DMR-E50 with its
100% reliability and the all-important Time Slip functionality - pay less
than 300 UKP on the Net.)

No reason to suspect the MiCo (?) players won't be fine and dandy though,
especially at silly prices like these - like Daniel says, you can have 'em
dotted about all over the house for what they cost!





Try playing a dvd-ram disc in anything else though, +rw makes far more
sense.

edd