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Summary: Great Affordable Player
Review: After a lot of research, I finally bought this DVD player. The movies look great and sound even better. I've had the player for over a month and I still don't have any problems such as the lip sync problems that both the Sony and Pioneer players have had.Since the player is DTS compatible, it's a good player not only for today, but the future when more DTS movies will be released. I'd definitely buy this player again.
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Summary: Excellent sound and sharpest picture, no problems at all.
Review: After reading the other reviews of this item, I had to respond. Without arguing with them, I shall mention that I have owned this item for the last 1 year and have had no problem at all - no pictures or frames skipping, freezing or other malfunction. The setup was a breeze and using the controls of brightness, sharpness and contrast, I could get the picture absolutely perfect theater-like. After having seen Toshiba and Onkyo dvd players of higher price in action, I am keeping my JVC! The 3D phonic does a very realistic job of simulating surround sound and the component video output gives stunning resolution. My "acid-test" consists of the battle scene from Russel Crow's 'Gladiator'. You can see every detail of the ash-flakes, arrows flying from close-up to a distance against white background and the color of bursting flames to the reality of a cinema. If you pause, the image is non-pixilated even on a projector screen. You can advance frame by frame with ease and zoom in accurately.
This dvd player comes with 5 channel output. So even if you do not have a surround procesor, you can use the JVC 701 to do the job just right for you. The remote is fairly easy and intuitive to use for anyone who knows how to use a remote. There are built in screen savers to protect your LCD or CRT screen from getting burnt..another great feature. I recommend you use it.
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Summary: Excellent sound and sharpest picture, no problems at all.
Review: After reading the other reviews of this item, I had to respond. Without arguing with them, I shall mention that I have owned this item for the last 1 year and have had no problem at all - no pictures or frames skipping, freezing or other malfunction. The setup was a breeze and using the controls of brightness, sharpness and contrast, I could get the picture absolutely perfect theater-like. After having seen Toshiba and Onkyo dvd players of higher price in action, I am keeping my JVC! The 3D phonic does a very realistic job of simulating surround sound and the component video output gives stunning resolution. My "acid-test" consists of the battle scene from Russel Crow's 'Gladiator'. You can see every detail of the ash-flakes, arrows flying from close-up to a distance against white background and the color of bursting flames to the reality of a cinema. If you pause, the image is non-pixilated even on a projector screen. You can advance frame by frame with ease and zoom in accurately.
This dvd player comes with 5 channel output. So even if you do not have a surround procesor, you can use the JVC 701 to do the job just right for you. The remote is fairly easy and intuitive to use for anyone who knows how to use a remote. There are built in screen savers to protect your LCD or CRT screen from getting burnt..another great feature. I recommend you use it.
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Summary: MORE PROBLEMS THAN PLEASURE
Review: At first I liked the unit very much. But about four months down the road I purchased a disc called "Rasor Blade Smmile". I locked the player, the all elctronic functions ceased to exsist, and had to be unplugged to retrieve the disc. After this about 50% of all other discs I put in the unit did exactly the same thing rendering the unit so wildly inconsistant that the unit became useless. (Note: these other discs had played fine before the "locking" incident.) This happened after the first three months making it less expensive replace the unit (with a much more dependable, if less glitzy,Toshiba unit). Also, the jog shuttle NEVER functioned correctly.
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Summary: One Con they don't tell you about...........
Review: Before you venture out into the DVD world, you need to know that there are not that many movies on DVD and many new movies that release on VHS don't come out on DVD for months (if at all). I have to question why I have one at all since I thought it would replace our VCR.
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Summary: Cruel Intentions
Review: I bought this player a couple of months ago. It suddenly stopped working after trying to play Cruel Intentions. I was happy with they player up until this point. I just brought it in for servicing. Thanks for the info!
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Summary: Lots of Problems
Review: I bought this player about a year ago. I have always respected the JVC name. Not any more! I too have experienced the same "lock-up" problems.... "Arlington Road" messed up my player so bad that I had to call JVC for advice. They gave me a reset procedure that worked, but only temporarily. My player continued to have this same problem on other disks as well. I also encountered some MAJOR audio and video distortion while watching "Notting Hill". I took that disk to a friends house and it played perfectly with no prblems whatsoever on his RCA player. I have also had problems with accessing certain special features (cast biographies, trailers, etc...) on some disks. Once again, these DVDs played fine on other players. The features on this player are very nice, but they don't do any good when the player won't play DVDs....
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Summary: Lots of Problems
Review: I bought this player about a year ago. I have always respected the JVC name. Not any more! I too have experienced the same "lock-up" problems.... "Arlington Road" messed up my player so bad that I had to call JVC for advice. They gave me a reset procedure that worked, but only temporarily. My player continued to have this same problem on other disks as well. I also encountered some MAJOR audio and video distortion while watching "Notting Hill". I took that disk to a friends house and it played perfectly with no prblems whatsoever on his RCA player. I have also had problems with accessing certain special features (cast biographies, trailers, etc...) on some disks. Once again, these DVDs played fine on other players. The features on this player are very nice, but they don't do any good when the player won't play DVDs....
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Summary: Good Player
Review: I bought this player in December of 99 and ever since have had no problems with it what so ever. It has been a great player, not only in picture and sound quality but also in price. There aren't many players out there that offer the same quality, price, and amount of features. I have used this player with 2 different Sony TVs and it has worked flawlessly with both using the S-video connector. I have not experienced any of the problems that other people seemed to have experienced with this player. I would highly recommend this player.
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Summary: Good Player
Review: I bought this player in December of 99 and ever since have had no problems with it what so ever. It has been a great player, not only in picture and sound quality but also in price. There aren't many players out there that offer the same quality, price, and amount of features. I have used this player with 2 different Sony TVs and it has worked flawlessly with both using the S-video connector. I have not experienced any of the problems that other people seemed to have experienced with this player. I would highly recommend this player.
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