Just cop a feel of its rubbery knobs

Advantages: Very powerful, great quality sound, simplified features
Disadvantages: Menu can be a bit fiddly, slow to return the CD from its' slot

....caraudiodirect.com. I actually bought the stereo just after Christmas when the New Year Sales had started, as I wanted to ensure that I was getting a good deal (I'm a true bargain hunter!). At that time, there was a plethora of budget-range car stereos on the market - I'd narrowed my choice down to a JVC, Clarion or Blaupunkt – all of whom were offering their single CD radios through websites or car part stores (Halfords and Charlie Browns spring to mind) for around the £100 mark. So what made me choose the Blaupunkt over the other models? In a word: simplicity. Now I don't know about other drivers, but I like a car stereo that's simple. I don't want to be in traffic and fiddling to find the radio button. If someone's talking to me, I don't want to have to spend five minutes trying to turn the stereo down. If I don't like a track, I don...

indiegirl 29.11.2002 (02.12.2002) · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of Blaupunkt Lausanne CD31

Blaupunkt Canberra C31

Advantages: Excellent radio both at FM & AM
Disadvantages: Tape player (No CD)

...this blaupunkt car radio has an excellent radio front end at both FM & (mostly) AM! Its ability to receive AM (MW) radio broadcasts with the usual very short FM whip antennas that are commonly found at newer cars, is a real plus! And the sound on AM isn't bad at all. It does have a good AM IF bandwidth filter probably, that allow you to listen good sounded AM stations, with a quality (at least an AM quality that most newer radios doesn't provide for the forgotten ? MW band), while keeping the selectivity needed for first adjacent channel intereference out. A better noise blanker filter, or a faster AGC wil help a little at city terrains where the manmade static noises are higher! For FM the sound is good (take in account the overcompressed FM modulated signals that most stations have now) and its sensitivity is good enough to get...

Pdmtr 10.07.2008 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of Blaupunkt Canberra C31

Budget price not budget sound

Advantages: Sounds Superb and the price is right.
Disadvantages: Looks like its made from plastacine.

...Summary... It's bottom of their range and it costs £135 (RRP 169 -see below) BUT... It's an extremely good, fully functional RDS radio and CD player It's got 4 x 25Watts of good sounding power (40W MPS) The obligatory Removeable front panel Dual colour display and an Optional remote and most of the trimmings... This is the second Blaupunkt I've owned -the first I sadly sold in another car. And they really are extremely good. I'm not a believer in German efficiency (having worked there!) but Blaupunkt are a stunning example of how to make electronics. The unit i've got always reads ALL of my CD's 1st time(including burnt ones), rarely skips (and I drive a mini), and sounds superb, (I'm an acoustic engineer!) Against it are its plastacine-legoland looks. Very important to the boy racer to have pretty coloured...

miggle 01.06.2001 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of Blaupunkt Lausanne CD31

San Remo CD34 - Style, Performance AND subtlety?

Advantages: Panel Release - Lots of Features - Great Price
Disadvantages: Screen susceptible to Glare.

...purchased a small cable from Blaupunkt for about £5, which plugs into the rear of the unit. Simply tuck the cable carefully around your dashboard so it pops out the front somewhere and plug in to your MP3 player. Although it doesn't support changing tracks from the front panel of the unit, it offers an inexpensive and uncomplicated solution to releasing your iPod in your car! The slot at the rear of the unit for the MP3 cable can also be used to cable up a CD changer if you decide to add one later! As mentioned above, the only possible downside to this unit is the glare in the sun. If the sun shines directly on the front panel, the white display becomes hard to read, although I'm sure this is the same for other white-on-black head units! All in all, a superb CD Head-Unit for your car - Looks great, sounds great and with minimum fuss...

Radical-Machine 12.07.2006 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of Blaupunkt SAN REMO

CD-OK

Advantages: Store yor data, free your hard drive
Disadvantages: come on a spindle and have no cases

...I recently managed to fill up my 80GB Hard drive with all sorts of rubbish and needed some CD's to store my information on. Usually I would buy them from Tesco's, but as I was In a hurry I popped into my local computer retailer (Northbridge Computers in Lowestoft) to see what he had available. All he had on this occassion was TDK CD-R80 discs. There was single CD's in cases, boxs of ten in cases and spindles of twenty-five and one hundred. I plummeted for the spindle of twenty-five as I wasn't rich enough at the time to buy the big fat one hundred spindle. ***Product*** The disc's themselves are light blue with a silver swirl on it. TDK CD-R80 is clearly stamped on it. There is plenty of room to write on them and they can store up to 700MB of data or 80 minutes recording time. They are ideal for backing up files, pictures, photos...

Kingkarliii 25.04.2006 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful
Review of TDK CD-R 80 min

48 Hour CD Service

Advantages: Cheap chart and new releases. 48 hour delivery typical
Disadvantages: Postage may or may not be included in listed price

...101cd have always serviced me well with my CD needs. I tend to order from either these guys, or Amazon. 101cd have very good deals on chart and new releases. These go for £9.99 which includes p+p. Typically you can expect your order to arrive in around 48 hours. They always have a good budget range for sale, usually these are around the £6-8 mark. You pay p+p on top of these though. As expected you can search by artist, title etc, and look through the whole catalogue. There is very rarely a cd they do not have. Prices do vary though, and they may not be the cheapest around. Sometimes they are, sometimes they aren't! They do offer imports and rare releases. These often seem to be sourced from other retailers, so you may benefit by going directly to that retailer for the rare or import cd you may want. You can earn ipoints by...

alflavor 16.01.2001 (13.05.2001) · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of 101CD

Blaupunkt TravelPilot in Fords

Advantages: An idea if you really don't know the area.
Disadvantages: Limited, outdated mapping, not so easy to use

...In our brand new Fiesta, delivered this month, the Blaupunkt TravelPilot comes fitted in a unit combined with the radio. To try this system out, over a period of three weeks, and a total of about 600 miles, entirely within my home county of West Yorkshire, i ran the TravelPilot alongside my own local knowledge of the area built up over 17 years of driving around the area. To enter a destination it is necessary to go through a menu and a series of entries not wholly unlike entering a text message on a mobile phone. There is a form of predictive texting, which can be quite useful. The problem I found, though, was that before I could find the way to, say, Huddersfield Police Station I needed to know what road it is in. There seems to be no provision for places like hospitals or police stations as destinations. Back to the Ato...

KenW 14.07.2005 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of Blaupunkt Travel Pilot DX-N

Sega Mega CD? Sega Mega Crap!

Advantages: Grandfather of CD consoles
Disadvantages: The Sega Saturn should have been the grandfather

...Do you know why Sega stopped making games consoles after the Dreamcast and concentrated on making software for other consoles? It is because Sega?s executives have always made stupid, ill-informed decisions. I mean, how many mistakes can a company make before they start to wise up and start doing things properly to make a profit and appeal properly to their fans? The Dreamcast was a step in the right direction, but it was already too late and Sega knew it as well. So now I present you with genesis, the beginning of Sega?s bad decision making with this horrid contraption called the Sega Mega CD. It was made to prolong the life of its aging console, the Sega Mega Drive, since the old ?16bit? and ?BLAST PROCESSING? marketing ploys stopped working. I remember in my childhood that only the rich kids could afford a Mega CD because it was way...

0wnz0rz 07.05.2009 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful
Review of Sega Mega CD

CD WOW - ABSOLUTE RUBBISH....

Advantages: None
Disadvantages: No Stock, Don't deliver, Misleading emails

...******Please update at bottom of this review******* Over the years I have used several internet sites when it comes to purchasing DVD's and other gifts for family and friends. I have always found the site that offers good customer service, value for money as well as a prompt delivery. Out of all those companies the worst has to be, without a doubt, CD WOW...... I have an MBNA Reward card and I exchanged some points for a CD WOW e-voucher. Up to this point I had never used the company and so I started looking for the DVD of my choice to use the voucher. The Company CD WOW is based in Hong Kong and was formerly of budget record label, Tring International. They ship from multiple countries including: United Kingdom, Hong Kong, USA, Republic of Ireland, Australia, Sweden, Spain and Germany. In 2000 they started...

pc2308 13.09.2007 (28.09.2007) · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of cd-wow.co.uk

Best CD prices on the net

Advantages: Good service, cheap prices
Disadvantages: Inevitable time delay between ordering and receiving goods

...CD Wow is a site that I found out about through Dooyoo and Ciao so since I tend to spend a lot of my disposable income on CD's I decided to check it out. Wow is the word I was very impressed and all the claims I had heard regarding what a good service and how cheapo it was were all true. >>>THE BASICS<<< CD Wow is an online shop where you can buy CD's and more recently DVD's. The web address is: www.cd-wow.com The biggest advantage of using this site is the price of the CD's. They normally charge a max of £8.99 (single CD) for any CD listed on site, including new and chart CD's. Since the Postage and packaging is free this price represents a very good deal when compared to other online or high street CD outlets. When you log on to the main page you are faced with three separate sections to choose from. *The Top 20...

Mauri 26.11.2001 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of cd-wow.co.uk