Aiwa XD-DV480 DVD Player Recommendations

The badge says Aiwa but this player comes from the same factory as the LG player in this group test, reviewed on page 54. It's a decent enough design - a little short on frills and glitz maybe - but Aiwa has added a few distinctive touches of its own, like the neatly laid-out front panel and the remote handset, which for once is a convenient size with large, well-spaced, clearly labelled buttons.The DV480 doesn't have any surround sound decoding and there's only one Scart socket on the back, but the rest of the features - including 3D sound, MP3 replay, 2-stage picture zoom and a five-scene bookmark - are all familiar territory. The only other notable difference is the locked region code; none of the usual hacks works on this model. If one does exist for the DV480 it had yet to emerge at the time of going to print.