Gadget of the Day – Alba Freeview DVD player

Here’s the rarest of breeds; a DVD player that also has a built in Freeview tuner.The slender space saver, which answers to the catchy title of DVD382STB, comes courtesy of budget boys, Alba.With an eye to booting the portable boom box off the bedroom drawers it’ll also handle music CDs and do a spot of photo viewing should you decide to burn a few jpegs to CD-R.Don’t expect niceties like a Top-Up TV slot and it arrives locked to region 2 out of the box – but a quick Google search found us the usual remote control hack for spinning region-locked manga classics and cheapo movie imports.Find it in the laminated book of dreams aka the Argos catalogue for the agreeably low price of £60.

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Dan Grabham Editor-in-Chief

About

Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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Computing, mobile, audio, smart home