Wharfedale SW150

Advantages: Packed full of fetures, low price.
Disadvantages: No six-channel output

...Tesco, not somewhere that you’d expect to find a top quality budget DVD player. But with the release of the Wharfedale DVD-750 (exclusive to Tesco) Tesco has shaken up the budget DVD market. The Wharfedale is absolutely packed full of features you’d only expect to find on a much more expensive player including digital outs for use with a Dolby Digital surround amp and multi-region capability through a series of codes. The only thing the Wharfedale is lacking is a six-channel output for use with older Dolby pro-logic amps, but for around £180 the Wharfedale is hard to beat.... Read review

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Advantages: Budget but good quality
Disadvantages: Ugly design

...A couple of months ago I bought a Wharfedale 750 DVD player for £180 from Tesco and it outperforms my other DVD player a Toshiba SD 2109.Picture quality is excellent and sound quality is very good.It is able to play discs from any region without having to enter a code unlike other budget players.The only downside is the design, it is very dull and square looking and the remote control is very small and fiddly. If you are looking for a cheap but good quality DVD player then I recommend the Wharfedale 750 it is available from larger Tesco stores.... Read review

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Advantages: Multi region capability
Disadvantages: Not the nicest looking player on the market

...The Wharfedale DVD 750 has, a im sure alot of you know, the capability to play DVD imports from any other country in the world, including the USA. To those of you who do not understand what this means, film producers decided to encode DVD's so you would not be able to run a UK (region 2) DVD on a US (region 1) DVD player, and obviously, the problem arises for us Brits when you reverse the problem. However, by simply having the disc tray on your Wharfedale ejected and pressing 0,1,2,3 on your DVD remote, the player is set to play imported films. I find this feature completely essential now as i have imported my last two DVD's. Advantages of getting import DVD's imclude better special features often, getting films before they are out over here (I got Fight Club before it has come out to buy over here, and The Green Mile before it has even... Read review

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