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A small Sony here, a Phillips in France, a small plug-in portable drive by Samsung. rgds - S

I see it's priced at £349 on Amazon, acceptable if it's as excellent as you and others say. Are DVDs that dated now? We spend much time at our 2nd home in France and the super, high-tech "mediatheque" in town has a huge collection of DVDs for loan - with a far, far smaller selection of BluRay...

I'm not ignoring advice. Don't be touchy! I haven't the facility to test DVDs on a variety of players: we have two fairly ordinary players plus a small Samsung external - which I just tried yet again, plugging it into my still rather new high-spec PC, dodgy disc still refused to play. To repeat...

Absolutely not! We handle such things with care. S

Er, not sure what you mean! Bog standard DVDs that one buys, or the very wide selection we can borrow from the library in France where we spend much time. In particular I have problems with some discs in a large boxed set I bought maybe 15 years ago, not much played and in excellent condition...

Thanks - the one linked to and the 820 appear to be BluRay players. I know there's a crossover capability with good BluRay players but I'd want to be reassured that one of these would be 100% compatible with DVDs. We have no BluRay discs. rgds - S

I looked around and it seems not entirely straightforward: the types of DVD a BluRay player will play vary, it's not consistent or 100% reliable, so I'd avoid this route. Thanks - S

I'd never heard of Magnetar but I looked it up - too expensive for our relatively modest needs. We don't do home cinema, just need a reliable machine to play DVDs. I also searched for Oppo, another brand unknown to me - interesting, not out of the question, will look into this brand further. I...

Thanks. Primarily I needed to know if there was such a thing as a far better DVD player than the usual consumer products. I wouldn't spend thousands, and if it was more than a couple of hundred I'd hesitate; but the frustration with poor/erratic playback has been building for a long time and I'd...

Thanks Bill. I didn't know Blu-Ray devices could play DVDs - are you sure about this? And I'm after suggestions for a really good player, a superior machine as opposed to the common £20-£50 jobs by Samsung, Phillips, Soney etc etc. rgds

We're fed up with problems playing DVDs. We have a couple of standalone players, plus a small external one to plug into a laptop. We are not clumsy oafs and take great care in handling DVDs - but still experience hangups, jumps that miss a few seconds or minutes - or sometimes, a total failure...

I'd never thought of that. I too have seen a great many private homes, mostly with very superior decor - I spent many years as a freelance photographer & writer, doing complete words/photos packages as features for the glossy home interest titles. Mostly in UK but a few in Continental Europe. I...

Good grief. I bought my first mobile 26 years ago and didn't require a magazine review to buy that Nokia or any subsequent phone... rgds S

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Interesting discussion. I've just been in my home gym (the garage, converted...) and I always listen to music - often Deep House on Dogglounge radio, but increasingly often material on Qobuz - I finally got into streaming early this year and settled on that. Today, it was pure bebop, Charlie...