She went to Target today to buy some stuff...and came home with a $34 DVD player for the kids!!!

THIRTY-FOUR DOLLARS!!!!!

That's less than the price of 2 quality DVD's!!!
That's less than what I paid for Crystal Ball!!!

PurpleJedi said:

That is ridiculous

That was the item to get for last year's "Black Friday". Everyone had cheap DVD players then. I thought about picking up another one for myself.

I've seen them here for that, by Chinese brands I wouldn't trust.

But then $34 here would buy three very nice meals out for me and the wife.

$34 for a DVD player though.

Does it work?

I think I once bought a $29 DVD player. The component video outputs were screwed up, though, and the result was a pink-tinted picture. I exchanged it for another one... same problem. So I figured they were all defective. But hey, what do you expect for $29? I hooked it up with an S-Video cable instead, and it worked fine.

Eventually I just gave it away. Last I heard it still works, although the tray doesn't always open and close properly.

Fauxie said:

Won't know until Christmas Day!

Fauxie said:

I almost spit out my food.

unlucky7 said:

What?!!!

Ever heard of Brica cameras? They have 7 megapixel cameras for 7000 baht. That's $170.

PurpleJedi said:

once i seen them at safeway a few yrs back...i knew they'd be cheap as all hell soon.

Christopher said:

yeah, in like 2 years the same thing will be happening to dvd recorders

i'm not gettig one of those just yet. best to wait a little while

and really, the cheaper the dvd-player, the better they are!

IstenSzek said:

i remember back in 99' dvd players were 400-500$$$ now i can get one at the liqour store.and cd players are getting cheap to...you can get top of the line for half of what they used to be.

abierman said:

seriously though, you are absolutely right. the more expensive and the
more functions and little buttons, the more things can fuck up.

just a simple, good player with a limited amount of functions is best
imo. the less gimmicks, the less chance stuff goes bust.

Christopher said:

i bought mine at the grocers! went in for a sixpack of razors and came
out with a dvd player. it works just fine, good picture and all and it
was just € 30,-

IstenSzek said:

you can get mp3 players like that now to. but they are seem to usually hold only 3 songs

i admit now that i got one...i dont even use my discman.
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IstenSzek said:

a friend of mine has this 350 euro Sony-player, looks great, expensive, etc...I had a illegal copy of 'Mr & Mrs Smith' burned on a DVD-r.....it wouldn't play on his, it did fine on my 50 euro player!

i have seen multi region ones for £20

abierman said:

I've reported you to the Police!

well, you get what you pay for..and that's not a bad thing.
dvd-players in the $25-40 range are great for general purpose use, like if you still have a regular tube tv.there's just one video jack and two audio jacks, so you'll get the lowest resolution picture on dvd.

$50-75 will get you s-video and progressive scan dvd players, with a sharper picture

$75-100 will get you hdmi output, which is great for people with plasma or hdtv's, and true dolby 5.1 output

pay anything more than that and it's really not worth it anymore

JM2 Cents.