AGiP DVD Player

I was looking for a DVD player at Tesco and there were a few el cheapo brands on promotion. I chose one which felt like it had OK build quality - the least tacky-looking one was sold out - brought it home, and set it up. The next day I couldn’t find my condominium pass. I last saw my one-year-old son playing with it. I looked under the cushions and rummaged amongst his toys - this has happened before, but no luck this time. Then a sickening realization dawned upon me - did he put it in our new DVD player?

I pressed the eject button - nothing happened. Oh man. I peered inside the DVD tray and there it was - my condominium card. Aaargh! I tried to pull out the tray but it was the stuck, the card was wedged inside. I had no choice but to prise open the top cover, voiding the warranty. It wasn’t easy - DVD players aren’t designed to be disassembled by end users, unlike PCs - but after a sweaty 30 minutes I managed to get my card out.

I refastened the top cover and found two screws left over. Who cares. I plugged in the DVD, fully expecting it not to work. It switched on. Hmm. Then I pressed the eject button. No response. Yup, just as I thought - I had pulled out the tray with some force, so I was sure I had broken something. Then my son pressed the eject button. The tray came out like it was brand new! Woohoo!

I would therefore wholeheartedly recommend the AGiP DVD player. It has been toppled over, dropped, force-fed, unprofessionally disassembled and even sat upon by a 16 kg toddler. And it works just fine. For RM89.90 (original price RM119.90) you couldn’t ask for more.

19 December 2007 | Uncategorized | Comments

13 Responses to “AGiP DVD Player”

  1. 1 nadiah 25 March 2008 @ 11:05 pm

    just curious,have u ever try burn .divx files and play it on agip dvd player ? thanks in advance

  2. 2 Rizal 26 March 2008 @ 8:47 pm

    sorry nadiah, but i haven’t …

  3. 3 ben 10 July 2008 @ 2:02 am

    yes,the divx which means the avi files that i burn it and play on agip.the result is the picture is very clear

  4. 4 Rizal 10 July 2008 @ 8:30 am

    thanks ben!

  5. 5 karuppiah 2 October 2008 @ 7:49 pm

    Dear sir ,
    I am karuppaiah from india (chennai) i was using your DVD Player last 5 year.my remote control was damaged so tell me the address where i go to purchase

  6. 6 lyn 2 November 2008 @ 11:58 am

    i lurve my agip player too.just got a new one but this new one after power off to standby it will not resume from where i stopped. the old one best! can.
    your agips how?

  7. 7 Lyes 8 September 2009 @ 11:15 pm

    Hi there,

    Touch wood but I have been using it for the past 1 and half year or so and noo problems. The tray opens half way since my 3 years old girl decided that the tray would not open fast enough for or or something towards that thinking.

    The DVD player reads almost anything I cam across except Blue Ray discs. I got it from TESCO for about RM109 or 119, I cannot remember. The player is now priced at RM139.00 (08/Sept/2009).

    I am very pleased with the player since I can just download movies from YouTube for example and save them to a USB drive or even harddisk with no problems.

    Large images more than 2 Mb load slightly slowly, but I never use it for the purpose.

    CD-R and RW play beautifully. However, when it comes to DVD’s, I have tested DVD-R 16x for a birthday party video and it works swell. DVD+RW do not work well.

    Divx , MP3 and audio CD’s are no issues.

    Now guess what???!!!!!

    I have just purchased from TESCO the newst model at RM169.00 . Not only it can do whatever its predecessor could do (duh), but guess what? It supports SD cards ;) and HDMI output with HDMI cable included.

    I have purchase this toy (he he) for my office to hook it to out Digital Display for promotional purposes.

    I hope this small little review would help.

    P.S. : I don’t work for AGIP LoL

    Cheers.
    Lyes

  8. 8 nazri 15 December 2009 @ 1:45 pm

    Hi Lyes,

    About the one with the price at RM169. Does it read SRT or SUB subtitle? How’s the picture, does it look nice?

  9. 9 izham 19 December 2009 @ 8:47 pm

    Hi Lyes,
    Apart from Nazri question .. Can this player support .MP4 file?
    I stumbled this player at Tesco also.. this evening.. looking @ Rm169 price and the spec.. it sure attracts me.. Sony price with same spec @ RM299!!!.. I’m looking for dvd player that can support .Mp4..

  10. 10 Alvin 8 January 2010 @ 1:08 am

    Hi,

    Anyone know the Universal code for this AGIP dvd player?
    my remote control is damaged. i need to get a universal remote control but i can;t get the correct code ? anyone can help

    thanks

  11. 11 nazri 14 January 2010 @ 5:51 pm

    Alvin, maybe u can find a new one at Jalan Pasar.

  12. 12 aishah 17 February 2010 @ 8:33 am

    i’ve been using agip for almost 4 years now and it is still working well. :)

    but yes, i can’t play the blue ray dvd with it but it’s cool enough for the price. :)

  13. 13 kamel 28 February 2010 @ 4:48 pm

    LATEST,THE OFFER PRICE FOR AGIP AT-8 DVD/DIVX PLAYER IS RM79 AT TESCO.IT’S PLAY DIVX MARVELOUSLY,COMPLETE WITH EPISODE TITLE AND SUBTITLES (WHEN AVAILABLE ON DISC). PREVIOUSLY OWNED SAMSUNG P170 DIVX PLAYER,ANOTHER GOOD PRODUCT STILL IN USED AFTER 5 YEARS WITH HARD USED,ONLY THAT THE REMOTE SPRING IS TOO SOFT; MANAGED TO MODIFIED IT SOMEHOW !ANYBODY WHO HAD AVI TV SERIES FOR SELL/SWAP, PLEASE E-MAIL ME AT jamalm64@yahoo.com.THANKS !

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