Gutmann pug

What a bargain........says it plays CD's, DVD's the whole nine yards.

Driving to football on saturday, made a slight detour to pick one up. Lovely job. Got it home plugged it in and it played DVD's but stuttered badily on CD's.

Ok so now I have a dilema. Drive the 30 miles each way to return and replace it or cut my losses and hit it with a lump hammer?

Mate then tells me he is working quite close so will drop in and exchange it for another one (they do 3 varieties for the same money, he has a diff one to me and it works fine) He takes mine back, tries to exchange for diff type, cant as they are out of stock so brings me another one as I had before. Maybe this one will work.

Get it home plug it in and low and behold this one wont play anything, not proper DVD's or CD's.

Now I have the same dilema, take it the 30 miles each way or hit it with hammer .............

Before anyone says why didnt your mate get you a refund I payed on my card so the only option was vouchers which I would have to drive 30 miles each way to spend.

Poxy crap .........


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side note ...subaru = 15-20mpg therefore 60 miles = 3 to 4 gallons = £15-£20



buy cheap buy twice ........ or 3 times or 4 times

Gary

simo

Bargin you got there Gary

Our B&Q is only 5 mins away just to let you know

sti-04!!

What was the score ?????

Gutmann pug

At the moment 2-0 to B&Q

paulr

Dump it and see it as a leason learned.

Thanks for the post,i was going to buy a £24.99 one from Tesco's,now you've made me realise the error of my ways.

Gutmann pug

Been onto head office and may be able to get petrol expenses to return it again Will have that confirmed before I leave home though.

If not I will take a few nice pics of myself beating it to death with a hammer. They will of course be posted on here and to B&Q ........


Gary

sti-04!!

Gary - You know what you want to do

alcazar

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If you paid with a card, can you not have the amount credited back to the same card?
Alcazar

OllyK

It's Hammer Time!!!

Gutmann pug

Yeah but you have to be there for it to be done and to return the goods.

corradoboy

Bought the mother-in-law a multi-region one for £19.95 last year from RicherSounds and it's been absolutely fine. Buying my own mother one this year from Amazon for the same money including a free scart lead Many of the guys over on AVForums now buy these cheapies as they rate them as highly as the top dollar machines, and if they do go t!ts then you simply bin them and get another

Gutmann pug

B&Q also provide free scart lead and battiers for remote. Brilliant other than the fact it doesnt work

Gary

ALi-B

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Is a BUSH?

I noticed these in our b&Q at £19.99, and thought "well blow me, I paid £25 for the same make and model"

Works fine for me (used in my bedroom), plays any bootleg DVD I throw at it, plays mpegs Jpegs and mp3s off my computer.

Which is a far cry from the £200 worth of DVD player downstairs in the lounge, which can't fast forward more than 2x or skip chapters on DVD-RWs, won't view jpegs, wont play MP3s, won't play PC derived Mpegs, has the most unergonomic remote ever made, suffers cross talk from the TV tuner (internal problem). Thus forcing me to make a scart lead with no audio input connected to the DVD player. It has a poor signal to noise ratio (compounding the crosstalk issue) giving backgournd hiss on quiet scenes.

One day I get round to swapping it with the £25 crappy yet perfect one upstairs, that is so far faultless.

I would say you get what you pay for, but I'm not so sure. But at least with a cheap as chips DVD player you know you are getting a piece of crap, so if it works well you are pleasently suprised

Paulo P

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AndyC_772

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Think yourselves lucky. I paid £650 for a top-of-the-range Toshiba a few years ago. It's built like a tank and has superb picture quality, but (as I soon discovered) it can't play CD-R/RW or DVD+/-R or DVD+/-RW discs at all - so no MP3, MPEG, DivX, JPEG etc either. Sadly I just can't bring myself to junk the damn thing.

Karl 227

Another turnip had the same problem and posted about it on the Northloop site, you should talk to her, Gary

Floyd

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Ah, now I understand. Post the whole story next time on NL sweetie

F

Gutmann pug

Thanks for the free plug

EddScott

From experience, cheaper DVD players usually play more types of media and last longer than expensive rivals.

I've bought 2 Sony DVD players, the 1st began playing up just outside of warranty and in the end I did actually take it outside and smash it against the house (this is the fate of nearly all my electrical goods and all 3 Sony DVD/VHS players I've had)

The current one has started to skip and lock from time to time so I'm sure it won't last long now.

However my 4 year old daughter has a cheap Tesco £25 job we got her for last Christmas and it'll play anything you stick in it. It will even play the dodgy **** I've D/L'd from the net My daughter has a posh Sony DVD player now.

Think its something to do with the software of the players, the more complicated it is the more expensive it is and the more picky it is with what it will and won't play.

In this case however I would keep it in the car and the next time you have to go that way try smacking it against the B&Q building, makes you feel soo much better

Gutmann pug

Gave up talking to the numpties at B&Q, will return it when I can be bothered.........Obviously im going to take the batteries and the scart lead out first though if nothing else it will make me feel better.

Gary

sti-04!!

Whats your 4 year old daughter doing watching ****

Andy Tang

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STOP....


Hammer Time:

Gutmann pug

Hammer time outside B&Q has a nice ring to it. Would also give me the chance to try my new camera out again ....... handing back a beaten to death DVD

ALi-B

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I think the "dead parrot" sketch at the returns desk will go down a treat

wrx-ian

Just a thought.
Do you own a lump hammer???
If so you will need to goto B and Q anyway.
So whilst your there.......................