Just went to watch a DVD and found my player has died, it was a first generation Yamaha S700 that gave up playing CDs several years ago and has now decided it doesn't like DVDs either. I guess it has done quite well for a modded player, lasting 7 years or so.

So, I need a new DVD player. Unfortunately I haven't been keeping up with where we are with DVD players.

It has to be a player than can be easily modded to be multi region, as I've got a combination of region 1 & 2 disks. It doesn't need to have a built in Dolby Digital or DTS decoder, as my TV has Dolby Digital itself (it always felt a bit silly having a decoder in both the TV and the DVD player).

I guess I need to decide between getting a very cheap one and a more expensive one. The £60 ones in the supermarkets seem to do everything my old player did and more.

I'm sure I've come across a DVD player that was also a network capable DIVX and MPEG player, can't rememeber where that was though ?

Needs to have S-video and coax digital audio out.

Ideally it needs to be available in the UK.

Any recommendations ?

P.S. anyone want a dead £700 (7 years ago) dead DVD player