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Summary: Don't waste your money
Review: I hope I save somebody the time and trouble of buying this piece of garbage. As some of the other reviewers have experienced, mine starting acting up after three months. I was told by the manufacturer that for $80 I should send it back for a "reconditioned" one. Went to Mail Boxes Etc... and sent it back. I received the "new" one about three weeks later and I am having the same problem with this one. The kicker of this whole mess was the woman at Mail Boxes Etc... told me that sometimes the same people send the machine back three to four times! DO NOT PURCHASE THIS!
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Summary: Garbage Do Not Buy This
Review: CD Player only worked once then nothing do not buy this dvd
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Summary: I'm not sure what the problem is...
Review: It seems that this machine has a 50/50 percent chance of survival. I'll just say that I've had this player for 11 months and have encountered ZERO problems. The Matrix plays fine...audio CDs are no problem. CDRs are a problem. Based on what I've read, I don't know whether to recommend this machine. But mine is great!
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Summary: It's been working great for over a year.
Review: I've played over 350 different DVD's on this player and about 170 CD's. This player has been loaned out and it still works. The ONLY disc that had a problem was the layer change on The Man With the Golden Gun. MGM has corrected that problem and offers a free exchange for 5220 owners to get the new DVD. If your player starts to give you trouble, whatever the brand is, try unplugging it for a few minutes. It can work wonders.
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Summary: Plays great when it works
Review: Now, I have no problems with any discs or how it plays.. when it works. We bought our player in February from Circuit City since it was the only one that works with coax cable, and it worked fine for a month. We had a storm, and it was unplugged before the storm since it was on the same surge protector as my computer. When we plugged the player back in, the cable went out. We tracked it down to the RF adapter, and replaced it. It worked fine for 9 days, when the exact same thing happened. We did the same, waited a week, and it went out again. This time when we replaced the RF adapter, it didn't work. We sent the player in this time, and they exchanged the unit. Another week goes by, and then the unit wouldn't even turn on. We plugged it into other outlets, and it would click when we plugged it in, but wouldn't turn on. We took it back in, went back the next week, and they tried to give us a messed up unit (faceplate lose, unit wobbles, drawer part way out). We told them to try again, but we wouldn't be back for 3 weeks (marriage, honeymoon). Came back a few days ago, they gave us the same unit with the drawer back in, and said to go down to the service center to get the faceplate repaired. Circuit City said they'd shore up the faceplate, but they aren't authorized to do repairs, they have to ship it to RCA's factory in Mexico to repair it (which is fishy, since we get the units back in 1 week). We call RCA to complain, they said that Circuit City does the repairs. My advice is, do not buy any RCA players from Circuit City. My faith in both companies is gone.
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Summary: I'll Never Buy An RCA Product Again...
Review: I bought an RCA DVD player a year ago. 25 days after the warranty expired, my player DIED. No matter what I did "No Disc" was displayed. I shipped the thing back to the manufacturer, had to pay $80 and got a "new" one. Now, 6 months after getting the replacement, my player has consistant problems accessing "special features" on various disks...video distortion while playing the second half of various disks...and won't let me play the last two episodes of any of my X-Files Season One disks. I am disgusted with RCA. I'll never buy another product from them again. I should have bought a Toshiba.
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Summary: DVD play good, audio CD big problem
Review: For DVD's this unit works fine. Great pic, great sound, etc. nocomplaints. The major problem is audio CD's. It will play if you putthe CD in and let it play. If you have to switch tracks, I would recommend you do so very slowly b/c it will tend to freeze. I don't know. Maybe it's only my unit...I would spend a little more and get a nicer one. Also mine does not play video cd (VCD).
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Summary: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Review: The Good
I must say I love this DVD player. The first one I have owned and it playes great. I use the A/V jacks into a 28 inch Phillips Mag TV and it looks like a movie screen. I'm so spoilled that I don't even rent VHS tapes anymore. I had one problem with a rented DVD (Wag the Dog). But once I cleaned the disk like the manual says it played perfectly. The stero sound is great too. A quick tip though.
If you don't have a receiver and just use your TV for sound, in the system setup choose PCM sound and high compression for the best sound. No compression makes you have to turn the TV up real high in order to hear clearly.
Make sure the sound on your DVD player matches the one on your DVD when watching movies. I bought The Best Man for my lady and the player was set for Dolby while the disk was sending DTS. Result, no sound and 5 minutes of PANIC. Just match them up again and all is fine.
The Bad
Not being able to burn your own Audio CDs is a bit of a moan. But once you play the Matrix for the first time you get over it. I am mad that I can't play burned Video CDs. Wanted to archive my collection of Kung-Fu movies and tapped Saturday morning Cartoons. But in a year I should be able to upgrade my pc and get a second DVD player for the bedroom so I could do that then.
The Ugly
All the reports I have heard about the DVD player had made me kinda scared about my future with the RC5220P. The review seem to be about 65% to 35% in favor. I am almost past the 2 month mark so I will do a follow up if anything happens. But so far I am on happy camper.
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Summary: I've had it for 3 months and never a problem
Review: Out of all the dvd players out there that are outragously priced this is the one,it's inexspensive, user friendly,and plays wonderfully with a crisp clear image everytime,and if your in the mood to play your regular cd's on it,it will handle those just fine also,This is a great investment and looks classy also...
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Summary: Loved it so much I bought another
Review: Gave it to my brother - not because the first one broke! I've had it for a year now - and not ONCE did it ever give me a problem - watch the matrix regularly. I get rental DVD's (more scratched - usually "more difficult to play") about twice a week - and in the last 6 months of renting so frequently I have never had a disc that gave me a problem. Overall, I think there's no reason to buy a more expensive DVD player - like cd players, they're one and the same unless you're really descriminate about quality or features not detectable to an average consumer.
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