Philips DVP3120

Generally hailed on Amazon.co.uk as the cheapest, slimmest and best "no frills" DVD around, Philips DVD player really is rather slimline and simple! Picture and sound quality are great and the set up was extraordinarily simple. Simply plug in a SCART lead (not included), plug into the mains, switch on power and off you go. The remote control (with batteries included) is really nice and small - yet another remote to add to our already unnecessarily vast collection! But it's got everything you could want - fast forward, skip, all sorts of program features (that I doubt I'll ever use). One disadvantage of the player is that there ...  Read the complete review

As a student I spend the majority of my time watching daytime TV and sleeping, but on the odd occasion that I want to watch a DVD I have a handy little one perched under my TV. I started out uni life with a small Ultrabrand Asda £20 thing, but halfway through it's third year of life it did something funny and wouldn't display properly. My dad took me to Curry's and we found the Philips DVD players on offer for £30 in a great stack next to a rather intimidating 32" widescreen TV. The thing itself is very slimline, hardly taller than the dvd drawer. Not many buttons and neat little screen that handily tells you the function you've asked it to perform. ...  Read the complete review

The DVD player is one of the oddities of modern technology - the cheaper and older they are the more likely they are to play rental discs, and its very annoying. I think we have all had the frustrating experience where state-of-the-art kit won't play discs and we are up and down to the player to get through the movie, eventually whacking the box in irritation. For some reason £300 pound players will find every scratch and mark on the disc whilst those sturdy £29.99 jobs with just three buttons on the fascia will pretty much play any film, even those with the disc as rough as Cameron Diaz skin. The good thing about this situation is the rental stores are very ...  Read the complete review