Judie, as vehelpfulguy says, you can now get major names for a reasonable price. A friend just got a Panasonic DVD player from Currys for �39 and says it is excellent (better picture than the one he had from Powerhouse). Also consider the models at Aria.co.uk but the Panasonic (or Toshiba, Sony) look really good. Do you want to play mp3s and jpeg photos/Kodak discs?