Alba BLUE

Advantages: Reasonable price, good all rounder
Disadvantages: No headphone socket

...’t want to bore you with too much detail so I will just list some of the main features, which may be of interest to you. -Teletext- For approximately £10 more you could upgrade to the model with teletext (when compared to the base model.) Personally I find this service very valuable even with the new interactive services that are now available. One thing that could be misleading to potential customers is that the TV doesn’t have fastext, which you would think it has when looking at the remote control as it has a red, green, yellow and blue button. Consequently it means that you have to remember the page numbers that you use rather than going by the on-screen display to take you to the main menu etc… An advantage with this particular TV is that if you are looking at a specific teletext page (e.g. number 100) which may be formed... Read review

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Advantages: Excellent value for money, lightweight, easy to use
Disadvantages: Small buttons, LCD screen not always easy to read

...I was brought this radio Christmas 2007, so have had is for seven months as I write this review. My other have chose this radio for me based on price - it was £39.99 from Argos. ALBA are generally known as a budget manufacturer of electrical goods, but based on this product their build quality appears to have improved. This DAB digital radio also have a built in FM radio, so you can use either. It has a headphone socket (so you can use personal headphones OR an adapter to plug this into your existing home stereo system). It also have phono type outputs on the back which again allows you to plug a low-level signal into your home stereo system. When you consider the cost of some digital radio recievers this is a very cheap way of making your old FM home system digital. The display is blue LCD (which can be slightly difficult... Read review

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Advantages: Very Cheap
Disadvantages: Not Multi Regional

...I was fed of up going to the video shop only to find that the majority of the new films and the titles which I wanted to see had only been released on DVD and were not available on video. I do have a DVD player in my living room but I often like to lay in bed and watch a film and this is why I decided to buy a cheap DVD Player for my bedroom. The main criteria for my purchase was price, quite simply the cheaper the better and the cheapest one available in the Argos was an Alba 165 at £29.99. Appearance My first impression when I lifted it out of the box was very favourable, it was silver in colour and very slim line with a very modern appearance. The overall depth of the DVD Player is only a couple of inches but the front of player tapers to give the impression that it is actually much slimmer than that. The depth... Read review

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