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Help, I am buying a DVD and know nowt about what to look for. Whats a good make etc etc and what kind of things do I look for in a good DVD player?!?

OK so money, I suppose around the £200 mark and this multi region thing, if its worth it why not

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Have you decided on a budget ?.If you can post your budget it might help to identify good DVD players in your price range. Without doubt what you would need is a multiregion player with RGB output via scart and /or S video output. A built in Dolby decoder is not really a requirement.

Hope this helps

The important questions before anyone can recommend anything:-

1) How much have you got to spend
2) What do you want the player to do (e.g. play films from other regions, play CDs, play VideoCDs, play CDs full of MP3 files, play through your video recorder)

Just seen a Philips DVD 712 multi region for £160, any comments?

A step in the right direction.The Philips players have good picture and sound and are easily software upgradable.I have had good support from Philips technical in the past. Compare this with the Toshiba SD210 (?)
to see what you prefer. The Toshiba has to be chipped to make it multiregion so allow funds for that.