DVD and DVD players were once considered necessities for gracious living. The technology has been around for over 25 years now and remains the lowest common denominator of delivering film and television in a permanent (non-streaming) form to the masses. Although the venerable disc format has been eclipsed by Blu-ray and more recently 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray, some of us still find value in our DVD libraries, especially for those discs which have content unique to them or can only be put on a Blu-ray as an upscale. And sometimes you need just a DVD player. Wal-mart has a house brand called onn. which manufactures an inexpensive DVD player. Last year I found I needed a DVD player to play discs on my CRT, having rediscovered the benefits of watching certain discs on a CRT, and saw that the onn. DVD Player was only $25 and decided to take a chance on it. In this blog entry, I will relate how I discovered some rather pleasant surprises with this player with you.
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