Alba DVD45 Slimline DVD Player - (Silver)

What can I say about this DVD player to do it justice? Well let's get the obvious out the way first, it's cheap, very cheap infact. I bought it a few years ago as my first DVD player, and paid the princely sum of around £18 for it. I am by no means a technical or audio/visual officionado, but I think the picture quality isn't exactly perfect, although for me it did/does the job perfectly, and for the money, you can't go wrong. Ok so it's cheap... but for the money you get a slimline, fairly attractive looking box that handles every kind of DVD.CD,VCD etc that I have thrown at it. My only criticism would be that the remote control was weak, and was perhaps not ...  Read the complete review

There is one good thing you can say about the Alba DVD45- it's cheap. And it does play DVD's and music CD's, which is what it's designed to do. However, as it gets warmer the DVD's tend to freeze for no apparent reason (what we like to call the dramatic pause). This will usually happen toward the end of the film, at some crucial moment. There seems to be no way of getting it started yet, you just have to wait. The warmer the player gets the more this happens so if you are watching 2 or more films in a row, you can expect them to be plagued wiht dramatic pauses. One interesting quirk of ours is that it seems to be pre-set for subtitles to come on. ...  Read the complete review

I am no technical wizard; I clung on to my VHS recorder for dear life until videos became virtually non-existent for the most popular films. It was then and only then that I decided to invest in a DVD player. Even then I looked for the cheapest I could find. Functionality was my only purpose when searching for a player. I cared not whether it could play mp3's, CD's or STD's I just wanted a slimline, unobtrusive player that played a DVD from start to finish. As such finding the Alba DVD45 for a mere £27.99 in my local Asda was a Godsend. Measuring 36 cm across and 5 cm high this is a surprisingly slimline DVD player. It is quite stylish for the price with a ...  Read the complete review