OT: Cheap DVD Players?
 

I want to get my mom a cheap, BASIC DVD player for X-mas. What is the cheapest/simplest one out there?

Look in Price Chopper.

Yes, I'm serious.

just go to best buy or something. Im sure you can walk out with something for under 40 bucks.

On this note... does anyone have one they'd like to sell me?

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

Dola- Wal-Mart has one for $29.83 also.

was gonna point that one out. Probably amongst the cheapest...

FM

I would spend the extra $20.00 and get a DVD-VHS combo unit myself.

people still use VHS?

I would pay the extra $10 to make sure it plays DVD-R etc.

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.

Actually, the cheaper it is, the more likely it is to play any type of disc/format.

not all of us have tivo, so it's still kinda, sorta useful when you can't watch something as it happens...

FM

There a lot of great classics out there that aren't out on DVD yet, so yes I do.

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.

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).