Insignia NS-DVD1 DVD Player with MP3 Playback/JPEG Viewer

 (7 customer reviews)

Needed a compact DVD player for motorhome, and this fills my needs just fine. Quality is consistent with price, and what I expected.

Just bought this low priced DVD player for use at work. Haven't set it to Region free yet but it played my PAL DVD+Rs right out of the box. My Divxx discs won't work but I wasn't expecting them to. Happy so far...let's just see how long this one runs.

I bought the Insignia NS-DVD1 yesterday to replace my old Cyberhome CH-DVD500, which had basically stopped working after four years (it would no longer load discs properly). I was looking for a player that was easy to set to "region-free" capability (the ability to play DVD's from any region in the world), and from reports elsewhere on the net, it seemed that the NS-DVD1 was worth looking into.

Well, so far - and note that I haven't owned this player long so I don't know yet what it'll be like in the long term - I haven't been disappointed. The procedure for setting the player to Region 0 is actually quite straightforward, involving a "hidden" menu accessed by turning the unit off and then on again, then opening the tray and entering a four-digit code and selecting the region you want (note that the tray must be empty when you are performing this procedure). I played two Region 2 (Europe) DVD's in the unit to test it and both worked perfectly; they were both PAL discs...Read more