Page 1 of Which DVD Player to buy for £200?? Advice would be very much appreciated. Thanks.

Hi Guys, i`m looking at buying a DVD player. I`m currently swaying towards the Toshiba SD210 or the Sony NS300 but before I buy I was hoping for some advice.

1. I`ve heard mixed things about whether the Tosh is multi region out of the box. DVD review mag states it is and so do a couple of web sites. A couple of other sites state it isn`t. Can anyone confirm whether it is or is not multi region out of the box.

2. I`ve heard the same thing about the sony, can someone confirm this aswell, thanks.

3. Anyone got any further advice? any other players for around the £200 mark that would be better? I`m looking for a multi region player and I`ll only use it for DVDs.

4. I`ve also been reading about the new RCE coding. What sort of effect is that likely to have? As the Tosh selects the region automatically could it mean that in the future I won`t be able to play any DVDs. I`ve read that selecting manually i.e remote hack, will mean no probs but if the player selects the region automatically it will have problems playing them.

5. I`ve also heard that the Tosh won`t play The Phantom Menace. Is that true? Is it anything to do with the RCE thing?

Thanks very much for the help.
BazMan

This item was edited on Sunday, 30th December 2001, 18:16

Try the Goodmans 3500pk fro Comet. Its amasing value for £200

DVD, SVCD, VCD, CD, MP3

Multi region with hack (see this web site)
Macrovision on/off (see this site too) so you can record from DVD to Video

and best of all it has a DD501 decoder built in with amp and surround sound speakers.

It`s probably not the best player around but for £200 it is in a class of it`s own

Buy it!

Mark