Naiko N-888 Review

Overall Rating

Very cheap at £250. Reasonable build quality. Digital output. Passably effective stereo sound provided you activate the 'Q' setting in the menu.

Slightly odd colour reproduction and no contrast control which it badly needs. Sound through headphones is awfull. Not a patch on a 'proper' dvd player when playing back through a tv. With an effective range of 4 feet or so the remote is pretty useless if youre using the unit via your tv.

Overall I'm quite pleased with this player. At £250 in my local Safeway it was half the price of a similar spec offering from Panasonic and the picture/sound quality wasn't far off. You'll be a little disappointed if you're intending to use the Naiko as a proper dvd player though as the playback quality while fine on a 5in screen is pretty poor on the big screen, optical output is provided for 5.1 digi sound though. Battery life seems ok (watched Lord of the Rings-just) but as it comes with both mains and car adapters unless you actually intend to take hiking with you it shouldn't be too much of an issue. It's quite a heavy and bulky unit compared to more upmarket ones and lacks some of the 'wow look at that' effect. To sum up as a fun toy and to keep the kids happy on long car journeys it's great but no substitute for a full size dvd player at home, but what did you expect for that money....

Members' Comments onMoreymach.'s Review

• simes66 on 7th Jul 2004

  BTW even though it says it's region 2, it is actually multiregion and is now only £130 in the safeway sale!