Alba DVD114

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I bought my Alba DVD114 DVD Player for £25! Last year and it is the best player I have ever used. at the time I had been using 2 much posher and more expensive players at my home but after 3 months of use they both started to skip on perfectly good disks even new ones out the box after about an hour of play! So I thought I would unpack the Alba and give it a go. What I found was an easy to set up region free (out the box) fully loaded RGB DVD Player with a coaxial digital output just waiting to be plugged in next to my SKY+ optical input of the back of my TV. I found that the coaxial digital overrided the optical input so I do have to push the phono in when I want to watch a DVD and not sky in DD (Dolby Digital) but as with the white noise problem this is a TV compatibility issue and nothing to do with the DVD player. I have never had any trouble playing anything on it... dvdr dvdrw +/- cdr cdrw vcd mp3 on cd/dvd but to be honest 99% of the time I am using commercial DVDs and CDs so there could be problems I don't know about. I work in a video rental shop and a lot of the time I have to take disks that have been returned 'faulty' home to test before we write them off and in the last year my Alba player has not skipped even once on these disks. If you have a dd and dts decoder or just want a player that does what is says on the tin then go for this one you will not beat it for under £200.

Very impressed! Only bought my Alba DVD114 because it was the only one to play VCDs but I am now totally hooked on DVDs!

I've had the machine for about 18 months or so now - it's still going strong which is great for such a lower-priced machine.

Very easy to use so it's good buy for anyone new to DVDs.

A nice, simple machine!

I have to say I am very impressed with my 114. It's played everything I've put it it. I have even burned my own DVD+RW discs and managed to play them in this player without any probs. It also seems to be multiregion as I've played Region 1 DVDs in it as well as the usual Region 2. I've also used it to play my own video cds which I have burned onto CDR and CDRW. MP3s play well through it as well. If connected to a home cinema system via the coaxal or optical outputs, the sound is fantastic. I highly recommend this player to anyone wanting to buy a very flexible DVD player without spending a fortune.

good quality for the money

if you get the right one its definately a 10/10

Must agree with all reviews, a fantastic dvd player. I need to know if anyone has a hack or an idea on recording onto video to get rid of the macro vision. I always get the usual mess on the playback of the recording. Any help would be useful.

Am interested to know if anyone else has had problems playing vcd's on cd-r's on this machine..if so anyone know a way around it?

Well in a way its just like Ronseal Woodstain, in that it does what it says on the box STRAIGHT outta the box! and for just under £70.00 its a bargain!!

I ordered a Bush DVD2023 from a mail order catalogue, but they were out of stock. They said they would send a replacement. It turned out to be the Alba DVD114.

I wanted one that played multi region as I have a friend in USA who can ship me DVD's.

I saw this website, and read the reviews on this machine.

I just got a R1 DVD off ebay, and was pleasently surprised to find that what I read was true. The DVD played with no problem.

I had got a code off ebay to make the machine multi regional, but it wasn't needed.

For an £80 machine I say it is good value for money.