Tesco DVD 1030 Player

I bought this DVD player a couple of years ago when I needed something quick and cheap. It was easy to get set up and didn't confuse me with a million different settings/options. It didn't feel particularly sturdy but that didn't bother me as it seemed to work fine. My mum also bought the same player a month or two later. Whereas my player still works soundly (apart from a quiet humming noise), my mother's makes a fair amount of noise when the disc is spinning and occasionally (although not that often) takes a few times of inserting a disc to recognise it is there or has any information on it. Despite this she still uses it and when a movie is on the sound/image etc is ...  Read the complete review

I know what you're going to say, why buy a DVD player for peanuts and then omplain about it? Well, if you buy something, no matter what price it is, yo would expect it to work! I bought this DVD player from my local Tesco about two years because the one I had been using in my bedroom previously had broken and I knew I only needed a DVD player in my bedroom for a few months as I was going to move. It cost under twenty quid (around £18 if memory serves me correctly) and came in a white and blue box (Tesco's signature 'Value' branding at work here). Once unboxed, you just plug in and play. The power lead goes into wall and the scart lead goes into the tv (hardly ...  Read the complete review