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Joined on: Sunday, 18th January 2004, 11:13, Last used: Monday, 12th November 2007, 19:23

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RE: Silvercrest DVD player KH 6510/11

I bought a 6510 last December it was ok for the first few months then I noticed that on some dvds (particullarly on the last items on the disc or towards the end of a film) it would stutter,freeze and become jerky. This gradually became worse over the next few months until it got to a point where nearly every disc (dvd & divx discs) would come up as "bad disc" when inserted into the machine and the ones that did read in would start to freeze once you started to play them. At this point I noticed that Lidl were selling the silvercrest 6506 dvd player for the same price (the differnce between the two is the 6506 does not have the usb port and the vga output on it) ,so I returned the 6510 and exchanged it for a 6506 (just showed the cashier my 6510 reciept & said it was faulty and she agreed to the exchange) . So far the replacement 6506 player has worked ok (the only problem I have had so far is a small number of divx`s wont play on the machine (but I think this is down to software in the machine or badly coded divx files rather than a faulty machine)

RE: Babylon 5 series 1 for £15.00

just got my babylon 5 series 1 cancelled the email said
"We have received a report that the the above title is out of print and no longer available.
We have therefore had to cancel the order as we will not be able to fulfil the order for this title."

think wh smith should not accept a order if they havn`t got any stock (the item was still showing on the website the day after I ordered it) seem to be as bad as Tesco for accepting orders for dvds they havn`t got. Will not be ordering stuff from Wh Smith website again.

RE: WTF? Reviewer browser Hi-Jack?

hi in reply to the editor I cant be sure that the virus was a direct result of visting the website and it very much doubt it was . My copy of AVG just said something was dowloading/accessing my PC whilst I was browsing the dvd reviewer forums. Over the last week or two I`ve had a pop up say "You have won a prize" pop up whilst I have been browsing the forums which I have tried to close down as quickly as I can. Then on Saturday night I was browsing the forums when my anti virus popped up twice saying there was something trying to download and did I want to dowload it which I said no to . I then disconnected off the internet and did a virus scan the results came up as downloader.apropo.p had installed onto thee root of the C: drive and downloader.lalus.A had installed onto my desktop. I then healed using AVG and checked my system using spybot. After cleaning my system I put the cookiees onto promt before accepting and found a cookie from as1.falkag.de was trying to access my system whilst I was on this site. I have now installed zone alarm which hopefully will protect me from any viruses.

RE: WTF? Reviewer browser Hi-Jack?

whilst I was browsing dvd reviwer last night at about 23.30 a virus installed onto my pc & dowloaded some files to my desktop. I had AVG installed and it picked up the virus dowloading

RE: 7dayshop customs charge

I assume the £8.25 charge would be made up of £4.37 (VAT at 17.5%) with the rest being the amount the post office charge for collecting the fee (unless customs charge some other duty on it). Had a quick look at the customs site and like you I could not find any answer (to be honest the site seems to be aimed at buisnesses and seems a bit of a mess). Did look at royal mails website ( www.royalmail.com) as well but cant find any kind of definate answers here either. did find this which may indicate that the post office charge a flat fee for all parcels under a certain amount

(http://www.parcelforce.com/portal/pw/content1?catId=2500042&mediaId=load105044)

Parcelforce Worldwide clearance

If we receive a parcel from overseas for import customers, we will pay any Customs duties and taxes on their behalf to HMCE. However, we will require payment for this, together with our Customs clearance fee, before the parcel can be delivered to them. Parcelforce Worldwide charges a Customs clearance fee which helps cover the cost of additional handling, administration, collection of monies and provision of facilities for Customs clearance of packages.

We have two levels of clearance fee for import parcels. There is a charge of £13.50 for high value parcels (over €1,000), express items through the EMS network (i.e. International Datapost equivalent) selected for additional customs inspection and GLS parcels (i.e. Euro 48 equivalent). For all other parcels, an £8 charge will apply.

These clearance charges are only applied if a duty or tax is payable on the parcel.

We will also make a charge if we have to hold your parcel whilst Customs process it, so we would recommend that you respond promptly to any Customs queries to avoid these charges. We will not levy a fee for the first 10 days, after 10 days however, storage fees will be charged. For more than 10 and up to 20 working days, - £5.50 per parcel. For each subsequent working day over 20 working days - £1.35 per parcel. All parcels valued at over €1,000 are placed in secure storage until completion of Customs formalities.

For more information about these fees, please contact a customer service advisor on 08708 50 11 50.

RE: 7dayshop customs charge

had a look on dabbs you had a good deal on the sd card . On the xd cards they are a little bit cheeper than 7 days shop (on 128MB xd cards) but I will now probably order from svp (blankdiscshop.co.uk) which have it for about 50p more than dabbs but as I`m going to be ordering from svp soon anyway the cost of the postage wont cost anymore (dabbs would be about £2) . I was in two minds about ordering a 128MB xd card from 7 day shop again just in case I got stung with a customs charge

RE: 7dayshop customs charge

just checked the 7 day shop website and everything over £18 includes UK VAT (as of 5PM today). Was looking at a 128MB xd card ,have now noticed that it has gone up by about £5 to include the VAT

RE: Bladerunnr/Contact/2010 Box set £4.94 (plus postage) from Tesco

just had my order cancelled the email said "Unfortunately we have been unable to obtain the item(s) below and will not be able to deliver them to you". just checked the site and it still says " in stock "

RE: Bladerunnr/Contact/2010 Box set £4.94 (plus postage) from Tesco

thanks clayts. All the films I havn`t got and are ones I`ve been looking out for

Die Another Day £5.99 at cd wow

CD Wow have Die Another Day Region 2 (2 Disc) at £5.99

also noticed

£3.99 - The 6th Day Region 3

£4.99 - Big Daddy Region 3, Men in Black region 3,
Days of Thunder Region 2(non amorphic)

£5.99 - One Hour Photo region 2, Good Morning Vietnam Region 2,
The Usual Suspects Region 2 (2 Disc)

RE: New Sony dual layer DVD burner £149.99

the Sony dual layer DVD burner is £139.83 at dabs.com (ordered upon request). they also list the lite - on dual layered drive for £120 (availablity in 3-4 weeks)

Bargains at Virgin,Game,CD Wow

Cheltenham Virgin had Live & Let Die for £7.99 buy one get one free (this was the only Bond title to have BOGOF sticker on it) . Also saw in Game they had Die Hard for £2.99 (when you buy any other item) . Cd wow has the Fifth Element region 2 (2 disc) for £7.99

RE: experts - lg dvd "check disk" error

I have a lg4750 which i believe is bvirtually identical to the 3351 and it can only play standard vcd`s or standard dvds , it cannot play non standard dvds,svcds of any type or non standard. Have a look at

http://www.dvdrhelp.com/

for explanations of various vcd`s,svcd`s ect standards

Tears Of The Sun Region 3 and other region 3 dvds at £5.99 at cd wow

Cd Wow have added the following bargain dvds today

Jerry Maguire: Special Edition (2 Disc Set)
DVD Region 3
£5.99

American`s Sweetheart
DVD Region 3
£5.99

Snatch: Special Edition
DVD Region 3
£5.99

Ghostbuster 2
DVD Region 3
£5.99

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
DVD Region 3
£5.99

Money Train
DVD Region 3
£5.99

In The Line Of Fire: Special Edition
DVD Region 3
£5.99

The Mask of Zorro: Special Edition
DVD Region 3
£5.99

The Net: Special Edition
DVD Region 3
£5.99

The 6th Day: Collector`s Edition (2 Disc Set)
DVD Region 3
£5.99

Vampires: Los Muertos
DVD Region 3
£5.99

Jumanji: Collector`s Series
DVD Region 3
£5.99

Men In Black: Collector`s Series
DVD Region 3
£5.99

Philadelphia: Widescreen
DVD Region 3
£5.99

I-Spy
DVD Region 3
£4.99

The Sweetest Thing: Incut Version
DVD Region 3
£5.99

The Age Of Innocence
DVD Region 3
£5.99

The Fifth Element (not Anamorphic)
DVD Region 3
£5.99

The Patriot: Special Edition
DVD Region 3
£5.99

Tears Of The Sun: Special Edition
DVD Region 3
£5.99

The Replacement Killers: Special Edition
DVD Region 3
£5.99

The Messenger: The Story Of Joan Of Arc
DVD Region 3
£5.99

Erin Brockovich
DVD Region 3
£5.99

The Assignment
DVD Region 3
£5.99

Sleepless In Seattle: Widescreen
DVD Region 3
£5.99

Glory: Special Edition (2 Disc Set)
DVD Region 3
£5.99

Legend Of The Fall: Special Edition
DVD Region 3
£5.99

Nowhere To Run
DVD Region 3
£5.99

A Knight`s Tale: Special Edition
DVD Region 3
£4.99

Against All Odds: Special Edition
DVD Region 3
£5.99

Metropolis (DTS 2 Disc Set)
DVD Region 3
£5.99

The One: Special Edition
DVD Region 3
£5.99

Lost In Space (1998 film) Region2 at cd wow for £4.99

Cd Wow has lost in space (film) region 2 for £4.99

RE: goodmans dvd 2100b

found this posted on the dvdrhelp.com site (dont know whether it works or not)

"I have found a way of playing region 1 DVDs on my Goodmans 2100B. Switch on the player and open the drawer, insert R1 disc, close drawer, while the player is loading the disc get your finger jabbing at the number 1 key on the remote,The disc starts playing but you then have an annoying "WRONG REGION" message in the top left hand corner of the screen,this you can get rid of by pressing the P/N button on your remote, you are left with a small white button type thing in the right hand corner but at least you can watch your region 1 DVDs2"

the link to the thread mentioning this is

http://www.dvdrhelp.com/dvdhacks.php?select=Goodmans+DVD+2100B

it may be the same as a proline 2100 according to this site

http://www.xs4all.nl/~wijnands/proline/

RE: goodmans dvd 2100b

some oz dvds are dual coded (even if just says region 4 on the case) to region 2 (uk & europe) and region 4 (australia) so you may find that some or all of them work in your dvd player without making the dvd player multi region.

6th Day/Last Action Hero boxset in 3 for £25 in MVC

Popped into MVC Gloucester yesterday got 6th Day/Last Action Hero boxset for £9.99, it was also in the 3 for £25. Offer is also on the mvc website. Also in Game yesterday they had Die Hard (single disc) for £4.99 (when you buy something else) and Gladiator (double disc)for £4.99 (when you buy something else)

RE: Game Sale - TRAFFORD CENTRE BARGAINS

had indy boxset marked up in chetenham as £29,band at brothers at £39 and alien quadrollogy at £45 (although the alien quad behind the counter was marked up as £39). They also had driven,evolution,queen of the dammed,dr no,thunderball, bourne identity,showtime at £5 (depending on which of the two game`s stores in chetenham you went to)