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RPI-Fan
11-28-2005, 11:46 AM
I want to get my mom a cheap, BASIC DVD player for X-mas. What is the cheapest/simplest one out there?
vtbub
11-28-2005, 11:47 AM
Look in Price Chopper.

Yes, I'm serious.
cthomer5000
11-28-2005, 11:47 AM
just go to best buy or something. Im sure you can walk out with something for under 40 bucks.
RPI-Fan
11-28-2005, 11:50 AM
I want to get my mom a cheap, BASIC DVD player for X-mas. What is the cheapest/simplest one out there?

On this note... does anyone have one they'd like to sell me?
Cringer
11-28-2005, 11:52 AM
We got one at Target for $29.99 over the weekend, but that was the bid post-Thanksgiving sale so notsure what the normal price is.

Just checked Wal-Mart's site and they have one for $38.76
Cringer
11-28-2005, 11:53 AM
Dola- Wal-Mart has one for $29.83 also.
FrogMan
11-28-2005, 11:56 AM
Dola- Wal-Mart has one for $29.83 also.
was gonna point that one out. Probably amongst the cheapest...

FM
WrongWay
11-28-2005, 04:04 PM
I would spend the extra $20.00 and get a DVD-VHS combo unit myself.
Joe
11-28-2005, 04:07 PM
people still use VHS?
miami_fan
11-28-2005, 05:55 PM
I would spend the extra $20.00 and get a DVD-VHS combo unit myself.

I would pay the extra $10 to make sure it plays DVD-R etc.
WrongWay
11-28-2005, 06:02 PM
How important is it that a standard TV DVD player play VCDs?


I ask because I was sent a DVD that would not play on my cars DVD player, but would play on my computer and my home DVD Player.
Router Help
11-28-2005, 06:12 PM
I would pay the extra $10 to make sure it plays DVD-R etc.

Actually, the cheaper it is, the more likely it is to play any type of disc/format.
FrogMan
11-28-2005, 06:42 PM
people still use VHS?
not all of us have tivo, so it's still kinda, sorta useful when you can't watch something as it happens...

FM
Schmidty
11-28-2005, 06:44 PM
people still use VHS?

There a lot of great classics out there that aren't out on DVD yet, so yes I do.
Karlifornia
11-28-2005, 06:49 PM
When I worked at best buy (2003-2005) the cheapest DVD player was always the Cyberhome. I will warn you that you definitely get what you pay for. It is a piece of shit that was returned more than anything else in the store.
AZSpeechCoach
11-28-2005, 08:38 PM
My first Cyberhome just burned out after about 2.5 years of use. It claimed that every disc that I had was a bad disc. The $40 Walmart Sanyo is working very well now (although it doesn't pick up where I stopped, I have to go back to the title menu each time I start it back up).