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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Advantages: Cheap, CD-R playback, easy hack, plays RCE discs
Disadvantages: No 5.1 decoder, no mp3 playback, bad remote

...About a year ago, I was thinking of getting a DVD player. The only problem I had was choosing which one. A mate of mine had just bought himself a Wharfedale 750 and was going on about how good it was. Seeing as it was only £180 and had an easy mutliregional hack I decided to get one. Luckily for me, every Tesco store within 50 miles had sold out. I went on to buy a chipped Toshiba 2109 (which from my review and from the list of top DVD players to the left, you'll know is an excellent player). Anyway, that's not where the story ends. About six months ago, my parents decided to buy a DVD player for the TV downstairs in the living room. Not wanting to spend much money, they went for the Wharfedale. This puts me in a position where I can compare the two players and comment on the Wharfedale with some evidence of my claims. First... Read review

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Advantages: Multi Region from handset
Disadvantages: Doesnt play MP3s, Slow disc loading

...I bought my Wharfedale 750 twelve months ago from Tesco and it was cheap and has performed excellently in the time that I have had it. The drawbacks are that it cant play MP3s and is slow in loading disks. Also region switchinfg is done by setting the machine to region zero, which means that you can play disks where the new region protection is installed. Its given me great service over the year and I would still recommend buying one if you can get it for around £100. It provides all the basic facilities and has lots of outputs on the back, and mine has had no problems even playing CDRs. I've got my eye on a new one now and the Wharfedale will move to the bedroom.... Read review

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Advantages: good picture - when it worked
Disadvantages: didn't work very often

...I bought a WHARFEDALE DS-A 243 from Argos. At first I was very pleased the HDMI picture was great. But on about the third attempt to load a disc it failed. It locked into 'loading' mode and could not be operated by the remote control. It had to be switched off and on at the wall to unlock it. (As I am bed ridden I need to use a remote control). It then worked once before locking again. After several further attempts I phoned Argos technical assistance who were unable to help. So it went back to Argos who replaced it with a new one. The new unit started off working fine and then it did exactly the same thing - refused to load and locked making the remote u/s. I emailed WHARFEDALE who didn't want to know. They referred me to Argos. The moral must be that you get what you pay for. I will now try a Philips DVP5960 and hope that's a bit... Read review

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Advantages: Amazing Features, better than top of the range players
Disadvantages: Only available from Tesco

...This is the best cheap DVD player on the market. Pop along to your local Tesco and for £180 you get a brand spanking new DVD player. The Wharfedale is better than most expensive DVD Players. It plays Region 1 and 2 DVDs, VCDs and CD-Rs. Not only that but it has DTS sound. It plays all American imports without fuss although you have have to use a remote hack to access Region 1 playback. The sound and picture quality is brilliant. Anyone who wants to get in to DVDs with a small budget should buy this.... Read review

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Advantages: Multi-region, good features and quality.
Disadvantages: Horrible remote control

...As my second DVD player, the Wharfedale 750 is the cheap, budget one. Less that $179 at Tescos puts this one in the budget category, but the price is deceiving for the high-quality you get. The player is available under several different names (Bush, Proline), with only slight cosmetic differences. The Wharfedale version certainly didn't win any design awards, as the unit is black, plain and squared. The remote is the worst part of the player: small and ugly, with tiny buttons arranged without any sense of logic. Forgetting about the remote, we get to the REAL reason I bought the player - its multi-region capability. Just place a disc in the open tray - press 1,2,3 and play on the remote and...you have a multi-region player. Since all of my DVDs are from North America, this was essential, and I am still able to play Region 2 discs... Read review

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Advantages: Multi region, cheap, good quality
Disadvantages: Only available from Tesco, tends to sell out!

...The Wharfedale DVD-750 is only available through Tesco's. It has won a slew of recommendations from DVD magazines and "What Hi-Fi?", and is excellent value-for-money since it costs only £169.99 and can easily be persuaded to play DVDs from any region. I personally think that the whole idea of region-coding DVDs is a deplorable piece of profiteering by film companies, and so wouldn't ever consider buying a player that couldn't play all discs. To get the Wharfedale to play other regions, simply eject the disc tray, place a Region 1 (or whatever) disc on the tray, press 0, 1, 2, 3, then "play" on the remote, and it should play the disc. Excellent picture quality, multi-region, and excellent value-for-money. I highly recommend this player.... Read review

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Advantages: Region free done with key presses of remote
Disadvantages: Noisy motor - Bit slow to load discs

...As seen in TESCO here is about as full a review of the two machines as I can get. DVD 750 - Available in most large Tesco stores, cost £179. There are three diffrent versions of this player but most on sale are the newwer chipsets and these have got over the original problems the player had with certain region 1 and 2 discs (more info at the wharfedale website www.wharfedale.co.uk). This player is indeed one of the best 'budget' DVD's I have seen so far, although there is a DVD 750S too which Tesco are selling for the same price..... read on DVD 750s - Available at some Tesco stores (bundled in piles with the standard 750) and at time of writing are available at TESCO.COM The latest version of the 750 (ie the S) is everything the 750 wasnt! Wharfedale have listened to the public and Tesco and brought out an excellent machine. The 750s... Read review

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Advantages: looks good, lots of features.
Disadvantages: 1 scart socket, little bit bulky.

...The Wharfedale KP 21 TK 210 G. 21 inch screen(54cm) with 54cm visible screensize. I got this tv from Ebay a few days ago for just 5 POUNDS!! It wasnt broken or damaged (I dont think the seller knew what they was talking about). This tv is for sale at Argos for 100pounds so i definately got a bargain. The picture wasn't that brilliant when i plugged an aerial into it but it still got all of the usual channels (1-5), it was just a bit fuzzy but still watchable. The sound is good aswell, it can go quite loud without sounding like its going to blow up. But you would expect good sound from wharfedale as there main products are audio. It has a headphone socket to the front of the tv and av socket to the side. Unfortunately, it only has 1 scart socket, but that wasnt a problem for me as i only use my freeview box for the scart socket... Read review

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