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Summary: Beware of Pioneer
Review: Like others who have posted here, I have also had a bad experience with Pioneer. I had to take my Pioneer LD player to the "authorized service center" (which was 100 miles away) twice in a two year period. After it quit for the third time, it was out of warranty. Pioneer refused to do anything about it, but would be happy to sell me a new one. I will NEVER buy another Pioneer product!
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Summary: problems with reading discs.
Review: The unit worked well for about 8 months. Read all supported formats without difficulty. After about 10 months it started having trouble reading commercial CDs. Often spits them out with an error message or says "No Disc". Still works well with DVDs. I notice that some Sony units have exhibited similar problems.
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Summary: High quality/Great value
Review: This DVD player was a bargain! I got it at [retail sotre] in the summer of 2000. I was looking at a nearby Pioneer single-disc player, and when I noticed that this one was only about $25 more I immediately became interested. Picture quality is great! I have not had any problems with any DVD's and it works beautifully with my Sony KV27FS12 27" Trinitron WEGA Stereo TV or my Pioneer VSX-D409 Surround Receiver. Bit of advice: Although CD's sound just fine on this DVD player, I found that it's just not the same when you don't have a dedicated CD player. Somehow it just doesn't replace it! GREAT DVD PLAYER
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Summary: Great DVD Player until the laser goes bad.
Review: This DVD player worked great for me for about a year. After that, is stopped reading DVD's. After reading the other reveiws here, I can see I'm not alone. It's too bad cause I have had a hard time finding another DVD player that lets you go directly to the disc you want (ie, press Disc 5 instead of pressing Disc Skip a bunch of times).
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Summary: Great for Movies AND Music!!
Review: This DVD/CD player gives you everything you want! As a DVD player, it has the highest quality of audio and video features; giving you the feeling of a movie theater, especially if you have a big-screen television. What makes this unit better than all the rest is the high quality CD player. If you know anything about quality audio systems, then you know that Pioneer has always been one of the leaders of the pack. I love all the extra features like the random shuffle and the program mode. The unit also comes with a "user-friendly" remote that isn't as confusing as most. Get this five-disc player and you will see and hear your movies and music in a whole different light!
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Summary: A fantastic machine!
Review: This is a fabulous DVD player! I have had it for about 9 months now, and I have had no problems whatsoever! The sound is great. The picture quality is fantastic! It's easy to set up the first time out of the box and has more advanced settings for the hard-core entertainment system lover. A huge plus for me is the ability to program across chapters between DVDs. For those of you who are scratching your heads, wondering why anyone would want to do such a thing, let me explain: For those of us who choose to exercise at home,the DVD medium offers the opportunity to mix and match sections of various DVDs to customize our workouts. When you do the same videos day in and day out, you can get tired of them. Or there may be times when what you want in that day's workout just doesn't exist on a single video. Mixing and matching allows you to get exactly the workout you want each and every time, assuming what you want is available on DVD. Want to do abs at the end of your cardio but the workout doesn't have them? No problem! You can tack the abs from another workout on without any tiresome fast forwarding or rewinding. Short on time? Why not program a workout where you do the warm up, 1 of the 3 sections, and then the cooldown? Can't decide who you're in the mood to workout with? Do a section or 2 from each of your favorites! Again, so FF or REW required. Having this feature available is a huge plus, and is the reason I ultimately chose this particular machine. I did want to correct a previous reviewer who said that the 503 only has 1 FF speed, and it requires a 30 second jump. There actually are 3 FF speeds. None of them are a nice, smooth, frame-by-frame FF, it's true, but certainly enough so that you CAN find the spot you're looking for. My one and only complaint about this machine is the remote. The buttons are small and the layout is not intuitive for me. It did take me a little bit of time to learn the positioning. But that's a small price to pay for such a great DVD player! :-)
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Summary: Solid DVD/CD 5 disc player
Review: This Pioneer player is a solid buy. I've had it for over 6 months and have had no problems with playing either regular CDs or CDRs. The remote layout of the keys is a bit odd, but has all of the functions you need. It changes discs quickly and "learns" to skip DVDs when in random mode (I've heard some players actually try to read DVDs when you're listening to music CDs.
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Summary: Super value and features.
Review: We replaced our CD player with this unit. The DVC503 has lots of output choices (component, composite, s-video) to help it blend it with your system. This unit is a 5-disc changer - handling multiple discs at once is an exceedingly convenient feature, especially for CDs. Once you have a changer you will never go back. Our unit has worked well. No complaints. This unit does not have progressive scan and does not claim to recognize MP-3s. If you require these features, look elsewhere.
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Summary: DVD laser gone bad after 3+ years
Review: Well - from the looks of the other negative reviews, I have been lucky. I managed to get 3.5 years out of it and now will play CDs fine but will not play DVDs... It still urks me that one component on these modular devices goes bad and you've got to throw away the entire unit....What a waste of resources.... Thanks to those who posted their views....You've saved me much time....Not even going to waste my time with pioneer for repair or possible actions, but will be sure to never buy another pioneer device EVER !....
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