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Bought it after a friend recommended it, and haven't been disappointed.
Does all the things it's supposed to very well, excellent picture quality, pretty straightforward to use, although I did have to fiddle with the display a bit to get the colour right, and my photo CD's are a hit with the kids!
And with a variety of connection options including SCART, digital RCA and optical, as well as other speakers, it should please anyone.

NB: Doesn't include a SCART cable, but does come with a triple RCA cable and 2 more sets of audio RCA cables for extra speakers.

I recently purchased one of these players and what an excellent piece of equipment it is. Very simple to set up and use, giving superb playback through all outputs (scart, video-s and even through the co-ax). The machine handled all disc formats I tried, DVD, SVCD, VCD without any problem and the MP3 player gives a fine sound too, with clear onscreen menus to select folders etc. This has to my best purchase of the year.

I was a little dubious before ordering, the bad reviews put me off, but i ordered one as a xmas gift, and checked it out before sending... and i was rather impressed. it played all region disks and VCDs no problem, and i tried a CDR with a mixture of MP3s, .jpgs and .avi files all mixed up in different folders and it played all of them brilliantly, with an easy to use layout, even shows thumbnails of the pics so you can find what youre after easily.
picture and sound arent as good as my pioneer player, but as this is £300+ cheaper... a bargain

Based on the Same internals as RONIN players (as far as operating system and Remote control at least)

Has played everything I've thrown at it DVD (R1,R2,R4),DVD-R, CD-R, MP3, Jpg/ Kodak picture discs

MP3's and picture discs look like an 'explorer directory structure' you just navigate through, volume works for MP3 music from the handset

Bought it for the girlfriend so ease of use was a must ~ just put a disc in and your away!

I was really surprised on the Picture and sound Quality of the Unit, I won't be putting my Sony out to pasture but I certainly wouldn't be unhappy with this player.

Interestingly from the EXTENSIVE setup menu it was set to region one (it actually lists region by name not number) but still played anything I put in it.

Many players state onboard 5.1 decoding which usually means it has digital out, this player actually HAS 5.1 decoding on board, with FL, FR, RL, RR, Centre and SUB phono outputs so it can easily be hooked up to one of the cheap ‘speaker with amp but no decoder’ sets you can buy. Again from the setup menu sounds settings can be edited to preference and the Remote has volume controls.

For the price, this player is ridiculously good value!!

Minor niggles
Display LED hard to read from a distance
With the tray open the front panel button circuit board looks a bit cheap
Ergonomics of the handset could be better, that being said it’s only the menu button is really of note ~ a small button buried amongst a row of more small identical buttons, overall weight and feel of the handset is good, most of the main functions are easy to find and it even glows.

When i first found this DVD player on amazon i thought that it couldn't be any good because it was so cheep, But this DVD Player is amazing its played everything fine like SVCD, VCD, DVD-R and even MPEG movies which i downloaded from the internet. This really is A Quality DVD Player For Under £40.00 why pay over £100 for another DVD player that does the same thing.