Decisions, decisions....

[selenay]

Thanks to the joys of a bad back, I'm spending a lot of time lying on my bed watching crappy TV while I wait for my back to unkink itself. I have a lot of DVDs that I could be watching, but no DVD player except for the one in my computer, which isn't really practical for watching from my bed. And the main DVD player with fancy features is downstairs, where I can't lie down and rest my back.

Hmmm.

Bearing in mind that I'm spending an hour or two a day resting my back presently, would £20 on a cheap, multi-region DVD player be silly? It's small (important given the lack of space), it plays MP3 CDs as well, it has good reviews on Amazon and I have a spare SCART socket on my TV.

Crazy thought or good investment?

Comments

[paranoidangel]

I'm trying to decide between multi-region (bearing in mind that I currently have no multi-region discs) and a Panasonic that plays DVD-RAM and would be compatible with anything that I record downstairs.

I'd say go for the Panasonic. If you end up with something that you can't watch DVDs recorded downstairs on you'll only get annoyed with yourself. If you ever get a non-region 2 DVD you can always change the region on the DVD on your computer and watch on that.

[selenay]

That's what I've done. Because, yeah, it would be annoying to not be able to watch stuff that I've recorded downstairs. And the odds of me buying non-region 2 DVDs is pretty remote. So Panasonic it is and I found one for £45, which is about £50 cheaper than I found it anywhere else. Hopefully it will be arriving Thursday so I have time to get things moved around and set up over Easter. Hooray!

[paranoidangel]

Ooh, that's very exciting. I'd be jealous but I already have 3 DVD players :)

[selenay]

*pfft* That's a daft number of DVD players for one person! *g*

[paranoidangel]

It might be daft, but does have a logical reason. I bought the multi-region DVD player a few years ago, and that was the only one I had for while. Then I bought a new computer, which came with a DVD player. At the time DVD writers were still quite slow, so I didn't bother with one of those, until recently. Hence the three.

I do have 5 CD players though :)

And my parents have 6 DVD players between them :) (and 4 computers - one for each eye :))