Which flexible DVD player?

I want to get an elderly aunt an inexpensive DVD player for Christmas.
I'm making her a couple of DVD 'movies' from old family photos. But
I'm having trouble finding a player that works properly with my sample
of DVDs.

Yesterday I bought one for £33.99 (60 USD) from Argos, a Bush
DVD2042X1. But with a couple of my DVDs the sound track was distorted.
And it wouldn't play one of the commercial DVDs (Sunday Times 'The
Month') properly. I use mainly DVD-R, either authored directly (with
MemoriesOnTV) or copied from DVD-RW with Nero.

I took the Bush back and changed it for Argos's cheapest model, an
Alba DVD73, £24.75 (43 USD). That plays the 3 or 4 commercial DVDs I
tried (including the ST 'Month'), but gave 'WRONG DISC' on some of my
own DVDs.

Tomorrow I'll take that back too! But can I first get some
recommendations please? I don't expect superb quality and features for
say £35 (65 USD), but I do hope to be able to play DVDs reliably, and
with clean sound. Note that all the test DVDs play fine on my PC and
my own player, a Philips DVD757VR.

Any recommendations for UK available players in that price range would
be much appreciated please.

--
Terry Pinnell, West Sussex, UK

Terry Pinnell

On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 16:12:54 +0000, Terry Pinnell
<> wrote:

>Any recommendations for UK available players in that price range would
>be much appreciated please.

www.videohelp.com has a list of DVD players and what discs they worked
with. You could sort for DVD players within price range (US $) and
works with DVD-R.

It is a bit unusual for you to run into 2 cheap players that won't
work, just about all DVD players sold nowday will work with DVD-+R as
long as the discs are properly done with VOBs.
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Impmon <> wrote:

>On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 16:12:54 +0000, Terry Pinnell
><> wrote:
>
>>Any recommendations for UK available players in that price range would
>>be much appreciated please.
>
>www.videohelp.com has a list of DVD players and what discs they worked
>with. You could sort for DVD players within price range (US $) and
>works with DVD-R.
>
>It is a bit unusual for you to run into 2 cheap players that won't
>work, just about all DVD players sold nowday will work with DVD-+R as
>long as the discs are properly done with VOBs.

Thanks, appreciate the reply. That's a useful site and I'll make more
use of it. But unfortunately the Alba DVD73 isn't included, and there
are very few details on the Bush DVD2042.

Straying a bit from my original question, I thought I understood the
basics of google searching, but maybe I have some fundamental
misunderstanding someone can point out please?

I entered this search target:
alba +dvd73 +review -compare -"add a review"
(That last part was an attempt to filter some of the many shopping
pages.)

But I got many false 'hits. Here's an example:

Winning Craps for the Serious Player Plaza
Alba DVD73 - DVD Plax. From: Amazon UK ... Grey Finish Compact Disc
Player - What Whiffing Sound & Vision ***** Review. From:
Khomeini.co.UK ...
http://www.touchplaza.com/plaza/sear...Serious+Player
- 69k - Cached - Similar pages

That doesn't appear to even contain 'dvd73'. Any idea why not?

--
Terry, West Sussex, UK

Terry Pinnell