thismeintiel said:
Yep. I remember this well. My son accidentally broke the tray to my PS2. It held in there for a few more months and then just stopped working. So, I went and got the newer version that had the yellow + in the corner of the box. I think it just supported progressive scan and a few more video formats. And that came out in 2003, which is when you could get a DVD player for less than $50. |
Actually the main reason I used a dedicated player was because I lived in Europe at the time while importing most of my dvds from Amazon in the US, so I needed a region free player. My ps2 and PC were locked to region code 2. My PC was my first DVD player, bought the DVD drive when Tex Murphy Overseer came out (feb 1998), first game on DVD. The drive was NLG 700 ($342) at the time. I imported my first dvd player from the UK a few months later for NLG 1500 ($735) While I paid NLG 1200 ($456) for the ps2 (plus extra controller and 2 games) when it came out November 2000. No clue how much a dvd player was at that time, but I doubt it was as much as a ps2 (bad exchange rate at the end of 2000)
By 2003 I had moved to Canada and had bought a new dvd player for CAD 150 with all digital audio outputs and progressive scan etc. And yup, budget models for CAD 50 were available as well. (dunno if they had component video output though)
