@amigamad
What the hell where they smoking i bet they dont pay up.
This is my latest thing i got off of ebay my latest toy will make good cd player if i dont get it sorted.
it cost new between 600 to 700 pound.
ummmmmmmmm, have you got it fixed yet? cause i asked my sony friend and he said that optical systems cost like £60 on a cd drive, so it iwll be more on a dvd drive, so.... :-(
**edit**
oh yeah, and why is it so expensive new :-?
playstation 2 does all that for £129 :-D and more (games).
The only thing is, it's not a dvd player, it's a dvd-rom, that happens to be able to play movies, (i know it's confusing :-) ) so it's not like a dvd player, in the way that it can play vcd's and s-vcd's, and of course when they give away "films on dvd's" in newspapers, it's not a dvd, it's a vcd (although they advertise it as a dvd) so when i put it in my ps2, it doesn't work :-(