Tesco had quite a reasonable looking DVD player for about £45 the other day; and I bought one recently from WH Smiths for about the same, and it works fine. There seems quite a number of ones around that price.

Slight thread drift: I was thinking of getting a DVD player to put in my PC, as a companion to the CD player and writer I've got. The one I was looking at says it plays every type of DVD "except DVD+R" - is that likely to matter? Is that a format that I'm likely to need to be able to access? (The odd thing is, when I looked up "DDV+R" in a book, it said that it allowed "more compatability with existing drives and players".)