Advantages: Cheap, Easy To Configure, Portable, Great Kitchen TV Disadvantages: A Little Small, Not Flat Screen, Limited Navigability On DVD Menu
...I spend one hell of a lot of time in the kitchen, and in my old apartment it was well and truly separated from any form of media interaction.
I decided that I would get a small TV for the kitchen, although being a lowly IT Consultant I couldn't really afford one of those wall mounted flat screens and due to the irepressible nature of the dirge on terrestrial TV I decided that I needed one with a DVD player built in so that I could just stick on a film or Stand Up comedian and cook away happily listening to that in the background whilst I conjured up some meal for The Blonde and I.
I found this Hikona TV in Tesco's of all places at £79.99. Now, I'm not quite sure where else to purchase this, but Ciao very helpfully tells me that you can buy it online from Ebay and it has been rated by 546 people. I think that it is likely...
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Advantages: Compact. Easy to set up. Cheap. Disadvantages: None.
...Another electical item bites the dust - our old Hikona DVD player that was never very good from the day we bought it but somehow scaped through a years use to finally go caput a few days out of guarantee.
So I bought the Cyber Home from Amazon and it only cost me £19.99 with free delivery which was super fast. I ordered it on Sunday night and it was here 9 am Tuesday morning.
The DVD player was so easy to set up, it only took a couple of minutes to get a disc playing and adjust the player for widescreen.
It plays DVDs DVD-R DVD-RW CDs CD-R CD-RW Picture CDs and has a hack apparently for NTSC DVDS but I haven't got any North American DVDs as yet so I'm leaving that one alone for now.
It does what it says on the tin and thats the way I like electricals. Cheap, easy to use and works.
The picture playback is much better than...
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helpful 17.01.2006
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