I was in desperate need for a new DVD player after my existing little Cyberhome decided to start throwing up completely blue screens if the action got a little too bright for it. Very irritating. I headed out to Asda because cheap is good, and picked up what I consider a bargain. For 30 notes, I acquired a DVD player, an Onn SW2411A-DivX, that can also play DivX files on disk or, get this, on a USB connected drive. Yes, you read right. There is a USB (1.1 only, sadly) port on the front and you can plug in any FAT32 formatted drive.

At this moment, I have my 60GB portable maxtor drive plugged into it. I have watched my Dr Who AVIs and am now listening to MP3s via the on-screen file browser. It even scrolls the ID3 tags across the bottom. How good is that, for the money!?

update I finally got round to trying a region 1 disk in it. I didn't know what would happen, but I failed to find any region-free hacks for the player. Turns out I should have just tried it; it's region free out of the box.