the first DVD player I bought was a Matsui player from Curry's in 1999
for £124

My brother laughed at it's huge size, clunky looking tray and remote. He showed off his fancy Sony 5 disc DVD changer that same night.

Mine turned out to be multi-region and still works. His wasn't and was obsolete in 2 years and failed long before that.
( Bamboo Steamer, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 14:52, 2 replies)

Wasn't Matsui
a Japanese war criminal and they dropped the brand name and come out with Saisho instead?

A bit like, "Buy our Hess TVs, they're ace. It's who? Hess is what? ooh fuck"

Edit: No, it appears they still market the brand, notwithstanding this man en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwane_Matsui
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 14:57, closed)

Matsui
Is the man in Dixons very own brand
(andythepieman Is surfing the waves of indifference on, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 11:14, closed)

Blimey.
First DVD player I ever bought was in Brazil, it was a Panasonic I think. It cost me over $1,000, which is about £600.

Although it seems a lot now, I can't say it was a waste of money, as at the time I didn;t speak a word of Portuguese, had no cable TV so used to buy DVD's all the time. It kept me entertained for 3 - 4 years.
( Not Pineapple anymore, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 17:04, closed)