Baby Einstein

[Chocolate Lips]

Any good? Would you recommend this range, are the CDs or DVDs better?

[Damsella]

WE HEART BABY EINSTEIN!!!!!

You can get the whole set of DVDs on Ebay for about £24. They were absolute life savers for us from about 6-7 months old. DD didn't like all of them, but the few she did like were worth gold in terms of giving me 20 mins to do stuff.

[Chocolate Lips]

I did see that on Ebay, tempting as they are £15 each on Amazon, but they say they are from China :? does it matter?

Isabel loves the telly already, and is currently watching Poor Little Rich Girls and has just finished watching Footballers Wives, her actual fav though is MTV. Just thought I should perhaps start getting her watching something more educational.

[Damsella]

Our ones are from China, you just choose the "English" option when you start the DVD. Most of them don't have any speech so it doesn't matter anyway.

I wouldn't say they're educational (unless it makes you feel better) but babies love them and it gives you some time out.

We call them Visual Ritalin!! :laff:

[Chocolate Lips]

Gotta be more educational than Footballers Wives surely!

[Cherrypie]

Eilis loved these. I too got a set from ebay - under £25 for full set; it was from Hong Kong - but not a problem!

I've since sold them on to another bagger.

[Cheetara]

Thomas loves these. His favourite at the moment is the Monet seasons one. We got ours from Ebay too :yeah:

[Chocolate Lips]

So it really doesnt matter if they are Chinese etc. But my DVD player only plays Region 2? Europe

[icclebunny]

I got the Baby Neptune one for a fiver - might go back and get a set - its all water though so I need to pee after 5 mins of it :oops: Mine wasnt from China its a region 1, american i think

[Chocolate Lips]

I just bought a set of 19 for £45, not as cheap as some of you guys have got them but they seem to be fetching around that at the mo, and I guess for 19 thats only £2.40 each compared to £15 in the shops. She said they are not Chinese either.

[Valentine]

What are they? :?

[Dancing Queen]

WE HEART BABY EINSTEIN!!!!!

Us too!! We have a set borrowed from ChelseaHarvey (who I must give them back to) as Alfie didn't really watch them anymore, and we've copied them. I also may get some of the new ones from eBay, I know all the tunes off by heart, and what's coming next on each one!! :oops: :lol: But boy does Elise love them, and they keep her entertained while I get some stuff done.

[Chocolate Lips]

look here Nay http://www.babyeinstein.com/

[Dancing Queen]

Have a look here (http://www.babyeinstein.co.uk/HomePage.jsp) Nay.

:)

[Chocolate Lips]

I receivd my Baby Einstein DVDs on Saturday - all 19 of them :)

We have had one on each day at the moment and the little telly addict sits and watchs the whole of it without complaining, she gets transfixed, although, to be fair Footballers Wives does the same for her.

The only snag is that they play in black and white, they are meant to be region free however my DVD player is Region 2 and anything that is Region 1 only plays in black and white, so I am going to invest in a new player - we were going to get one of them fancy PVR Hard Disc DVD recorder thingymebobby anyway, but until then - she doesnt care that they are in black and white!

[Calamity]

The books are quite good, we have a mirror one for Lorna and she loves looking through it.

J.x

[Princess Fiona]

I bought 14 dvds from ebay for £30 when Lu was about 3 months. She loved them and still does. They keep her attention the whole way through, She did go through a phase a few months back where she was petrified by them and i have no idea why, she is liking them again atm though.

[seashell]

i've got one of these Baby Mozart - on video as it was cheaper! - Thomas loves it now having watched it about 5 times - he is really kicking away and laughing right at this moment watching it and its lovely to see him enjoying it!

[*Fallen Angel*]

Jess loves these too, they are a lifesaver in our house!

[Loula]

The only snag is that they play in black and white, they are meant to be region free however my DVD player is Region 2 and anything that is Region 1 only plays in black and white, so I am going to invest in a new player - we were going to get one of them fancy PVR Hard Disc DVD recorder thingymebobby anyway, but until then - she doesnt care that they are in black and white!

Before you go getting a new player why not try to unlock your DVD player? We have done this successfully with one of our players but can't with another without much faffing.

If you google the make and model of your DVD player with something like 'unlock code' it might give you an easy way of unlocking it. On ours you pressed a series of buttons on the control which brought up a secret menu and you could choose the region you wanted the player to be, including region-free.

Worth a go before splashing out?

[noo noo]

The only snag is that they play in black and white, they are meant to be region free however my DVD player is Region 2 and anything that is Region 1 only plays in black and white,

Try unlocking it to make it multi region - http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/UNLOCK-YOUR-DVD-PLAYER-AND-MAKE-IT-MULTI-REGION_W0QQitemZ9708946798QQcategoryZ29785QQrdZ1QQ cmdZViewItem

[Chocolate Lips]

Oh I wll give it a go - we found a hack before but it gave us a number code to type in and there were no numbers on our remote control :roll:

[Adelelee]

Never tried Eliza with these, do you think she is too old now?? Mind you NOTHING beats Balamory in our house!! We have two DVDs on the way as I speak from Ebay so thats her sitting there with the remote on rewind for hours on end then :laff: :laff:

[*Fallen Angel*]

I think some of the DVDs go up to 3 or 4, so she's not too old Adele.

I saw in WHSmiths t'other day another version of BE, called Brainy Baby I think. Looked like a cheap ripp off but the price is almost the same :huh: