LG DVD player looks good, works well, costs less

Read any tech site and you'd be forgiven for thinking that you no one was making plain old DVD players any more, preferring to spend the time on Blu-ray. Yes, we're guilty. But LG has put some serious effort into this model.

Looks wise, it's hot (lie it flat or wall mount it, it looks good). Price wise, it's cheap (£130 cheap). Format wise, it works (DivX, Jpeg, MP3 and WMA playback). The advantage of the DivX playback is that you'll be able to play HD movies you've downloaded and burnt onto a normal sized rewritable DVD. There's also a USB input and the ability to upscale your existing DVDs to 1080p.

You can lay your hands on one later in the year. And why would you not? (Oh, and for product searching sake, the official name is DVS450H).

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