Page 1 of Help please!!!! to choose a player for £150 - £200 that`s easily hacked to play reg.1

I have collected a lot of reg.2 and reg.1 discs over the past couple of months but am still scared to part with money for a machine to play them on in case a hack doesn`t work!!! I just need final advice - simple,the machine must have a jog/shuttle facility and be EASILY hackable. My list is:

Grundig gdv200
Thomson dth4000u
JVC xv522
Goodmans dvd3000

All from currys/comet priced about £170. These shops never allow returns so I want to know exactly what works b4 I buy.Which is best and most easy to hack??????

(All this trouble because a film I wanted has not and never will be been released here on dvd only in the states (Return to oz) and I am desperate to watch it!)
Thanks Soooooo much for your advice!
Rach.

Logix 3000, asda £130. Fine player, Very easy to hack. 3 year warentee.

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This item was edited on Sunday, 1st July 2001, 15:40

I have just bought an Alba 103 which comes region 1 & 2 ready from Argos £129.50 DVD Mag best Budget buy so I did.

The best player there is the JVC xv522, but is only region free by chipping. I dont know about the others and I definitly wouldnt recommend the ALBA one! (sorry mate!)

One of the best budget players which is easily hackable with its own remote is the AIWA dvd370. Been rated very highly everywhere ( not seen a review less than 8/10 ) and the hack for it is really easy and its on the hack page for this site, that or the Matsui 110 from Currys is an absolute steal at around £130, good quality and its a piece of cake to hack again with no extra remote needed... but neither have jog/shuttle :(

Just in case you didnt know, Return to Oz has been doing the rounds on SKY MOVIES recently usually on at 7pm :o)

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Thanks, I`ll have a look at these two but do really need the jog/shuttle feature which is why I found out those above.

Glad you told me the JVC needs to be chipped as I can strike that off my list right away. I`m looking for the simple option........

Anyone know anything about the Goodmans as I picked up a hack for it and wonder if anyone can tell me `bout the quality????

Checkout www.goldfishguide.com/dvds/ this should help good hunting
Hey Russ to each his own the Alba103 get good reviews on all I read check out the above I aint sorry.

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how about the hitachi 505e ive just got mine from dixons i dowloaded the firmware from the irondukes web site and bngo macro free and multiregion by pass plays cdr cd mp3 picture is as good as all these players that r listed or if you have a big w store in your area they r sellng the lg3200e for £129.00 one good dvd player for the coin but it doesnt play cdr etc the jvc not a bad machine my friend bought 2 from techtronics but i think the pictures a bit grainy........oh by the way my 505e was £199.99 with 4 free dvds and 9 months intrest free credit:)

sorry trevor, dont mean to slag your machine but i have worked in av sales for 7 years now and alba were and still are the cheapest most unreliable machines available. i`m sure its a nice player and it might last you for years... but i doubt it pal

Sorry to add flames to the fire - I was looking at the Alba 103, but saw on this forum and in DVD Review that it is not RCE compatible; a very bad thing for me, as quite a few of my discs are RCE "protected".

If any player is multi-region straight out the box, I would still look for one that can be remote hacked for R1 specifically - otherwise you may have problems with RCE.

No one seems to have mentioned the Wharfedale M5 (£169 from all good Tesco`s). Hacked from remote, RCE compatable, plays dvd, vcd, mp3, audio cd etc...... Had mine for a while now with no complaints. Umm, no jog / shuttle though. Can`t win em all...

Uniden

This item was edited on Monday, 2nd July 2001, 15:10