Mico PDVD 207

Advantages: Pretty lightweight, compact, swivel screen
Disadvantages: can sound a little noisy occasionally

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Advantages: Video and sound quality, price, features, Dolby decoder
Disadvantages: Odd handset layout.

...I recently purchase the MICO DVD-A980 DVD player from Unbeatable.co.uk. Despite a slightly late arrival, I opened the box with baited breath. After plugging the player into the back of my television, I inserted Ghostbusters and waited. The machine takes about 5 seconds to load the introductory screen. The first thing I noticed was the picture quality. In a word, superb! Not a single fault or digital artifact could be noticed until the digital zoom function was raised to 4x magnification. The sound too is magnificent, and as a bonus the machine has an internal Dolby Digital decoder. The sound can be put through an onboard graphic equaliser to sound even better. The machine's features include playback for MP3s, CD-RW, Video CDs and audio CDs. The only poor part of the machine is its rather oddly designed remote control, which I found... Read review

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Advantages: Plays multi-region DVD and MP3 CDs, cheap.
Disadvantages: Badly designed remote.

...you lose your remote. On the subject of the remote, it's not very well designed, with some buttons in rather bizarre places, but if, like me, you've got a living room full of electronics, you'll probably have a nice multi-function remote too! If you want to watch DVDs from other regions, as well as VCDs that you, erm, purchased legally(?), then you can't really go wrong with this in my book. Yes there are better DVD players, but since you're probably used to the quality of normal TV broadcasts and VHS, you won't be complaining about the Mico... Read review

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