I already had a Dansai 852 and my partner wanted her own dvd player for in the bedroom. So with working at Tesco I spotted this player at only £59.99, so I thought why not. Upon getting it home I thought I'd try my collection of vcd's etc. It played all of them! It also played Some dvd's that I'd got in Austrailia without any need for any multi-region codes. Then as a bonus we had taken some pictures using a digital camera and as it said in the manual it played Kodak discs I tried it, and up popped the pictures in Jpeg format on my tv. So far I can't fault this player except that it doesn't have a digital output. It also seems very similar to the Dansai 852 except no stupid ping when you open the draw.