The Rio Volt SP250 is a neat, portable digital-audio CD player which handles MP3 and WMA tracks as well as standard audio CDs. It includes an FM tuner, too. Portable MP3 players have been around for a while and CD-based Walkman-style devices much longer than that, but a player which combines the two is more of a novelty. Rio Volts SP250 is the top model in a range of digital audio players which aims to play just about anything you drop into it.

This is a versatile device. For a start, it can ..

H & B has launched a new model for the budget DVD player market with the DVD-4420. It’s a well-built machine in a matt silver finish and offers "out of the box" multi-region playback, Dolby Digital, DTS and MP3 audio support. In comparison to the super-slim DVD-5415S the DVD-4420 has no karaoke functionality or metal facia but has lots of other features including audio CD and Video CD playback.

This player is very easy to set up. Simply plug it into your TV with the supplied RGB SCART cab..

The DVP-NS300 is Sonys entry-level DVD player, but still boasts the comprehensive set-up controls of the more expensive models. It also carries Sonys TV Virtual Surround and a Block Noise Reduction system to improve picture quality. On professionally encoded modern DVDs the effect of this is negligible, but it does help with some of the early DVDs which were poorly encoded, helping to reduce artefacts.

The first thing that strikes you about this player as you pull it from its box, is that it ..

H & B has launched a new model for the budget DVD player market with the DVD-4420. It’s a well-built machine in a matt silver finish and offers "out of the box" multi-region playback, Dolby Digital, DTS and MP3 audio support. In comparison to the super-slim DVD-5415S the DVD-4420 has no karaoke functionality or metal facia but has lots of other features including audio CD and Video CD playback.

This player is very easy to set up. Simply plug it into your TV with the supplied RGB SCART cab..

The Toshiba SD220 is a well specified and attractive DVD player that is sure to win many fans. Building on the successes of the award-winning SD210 this new model adds good looks and a host of neat touches that establish the SD220 as a benchmark that other DVD players will need to work hard to match.

The SD220 has an interesting footprint. From the front it looks like a standard size, measuring 430x69 mm. However, a shallow depth of just 222 mm differentiates this from many competing models. ..