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Summary: Great sound and picture, but......
Review: After researching many DVD players I decided on this one. The deciding factor was the ability to play all types of CD's and MP3. I have a Kenwood VR 517 home theater system that I also bought to complete my listening experience. When I had the whole system connected there was a loud hum in the subwoofer and a soft hum in all of the surrounding speakers. After a process of elimination I discovered that when the Video Output was unplugged from the DVD player the hum stopped. I exchanged the DVD player for another DVD 505, and guess what. This one had the same annoying hum!! I called the Kenwood company and the tech talked me through a number of connection variations, with the same results. When we explained that we had the same problem with both players he came to the conclusion that there must have been a bad batch produced. Now I have to return this player for the second time!! And I've had to drive 25 miles each way to do this! Since I don't want to take the chance of receiving another one from the same batch I've decided to go with another brand. The search begins again!!
Rating: 
Summary: Good overall, but some annoying features
Review: I have had this player for about a month now. The picture, audio etc are good. The best feature about this player when compared to similar products is that I can see the MP3 song names on the TV screen (less than 8 characters display fine rest are abbreviated wierdly) and navigate to the folder and song I want. These are my complaints: 1. The remote is the worst I have ever seen. The buttons are tiny, lay out is horrible, no back light, NO POWER OFF button (how annoying!!!!!!!!!!!)
2. When you turn the player on it wants to read the current disc even if you press the STOP button. You can stop it only after it starts playing that disc.
3. When a disc is removed, and the tray is closed, it just decides on its own to play the next available disc which is not what I would want most of the time. I was reading the reviews for a similar player from Panasonic and someone had the same complaint as item 2 in it too. Since this has a better MP3 menu, I might just keep this one...
Rating:
Summary: Good overall, but some annoying features
Review: I have had this player for about a month now. The picture, audio etc are good. The best feature about this player when compared to similar products is that I can see the MP3 song names on the TV screen (less than 8 characters display fine rest are abbreviated wierdly) and navigate to the folder and song I want. These are my complaints: 1. The remote is the worst I have ever seen. The buttons are tiny, lay out is horrible, no back light, NO POWER OFF button (how annoying!!!!!!!!!!!)
2. When you turn the player on it wants to read the current disc even if you press the STOP button. You can stop it only after it starts playing that disc.
3. When a disc is removed, and the tray is closed, it just decides on its own to play the next available disc which is not what I would want most of the time. I was reading the reviews for a similar player from Panasonic and someone had the same complaint as item 2 in it too. Since this has a better MP3 menu, I might just keep this one...
Rating: 
Summary: Little annoyances really sink this ship!
Review: I was so impressed with my Kenwood home theater (HTB-504) that I thought it would be nice to have the matching DVD player. I got it as a gift and upon hooking it up, I was initially very pleased as it is a great looking unit with great picture and sound, but then the disappointment came. First off, there is no standbye mode, which means you have to manually turn the unit on and off by pressing the power button on the actual unit, this is ridiculous. The remote is the worst I've ever seen. I thought the remote for my Panasonic DVD was bad, but the Kenwood remote is much worse, poor construction and small buttons make it feel very cheap. The player does play MP3s which is nice, but there is no random function for MP3s, only CDs. One nice feature is that there is an onscreen playlist for MP3s upon which you can create a custom playlist, a definite bonus, but the unit display on the the player doesn't give the track#, only the time lapse which makes you have to have the tv on just to see what track it is on. The fact of picture burn in coupled with no screensaver makes this onscreen feature worthless. There is a random function for music CDs but it is only within that CD and not across multiple CDs, which makes having a multiple DVD/cd player worthless as I like to listen to music in random order. Another serious problem with the player is upon watching my first DVD, "Scary Movie 2", everytime a scene that had multiple angles came on, an annoying movie camera icon would pop up. I could not figure out how to turn this "feature" off as it was not even stated in the manual. I would call Kenwood as they do have great customer service, but at this point I had already decided to return it.
Rating:
Summary: Little annoyances really sink this ship!
Review: I was so impressed with my Kenwood home theater (HTB-504) that I thought it would be nice to have the matching DVD player. I got it as a gift and upon hooking it up, I was initially very pleased as it is a great looking unit with great picture and sound, but then the disappointment came. First off, there is no standbye mode, which means you have to manually turn the unit on and off by pressing the power button on the actual unit, this is ridiculous. The remote is the worst I've ever seen. I thought the remote for my Panasonic DVD was bad, but the Kenwood remote is much worse, poor construction and small buttons make it feel very cheap. The player does play MP3s which is nice, but there is no random function for MP3s, only CDs. One nice feature is that there is an onscreen playlist for MP3s upon which you can create a custom playlist, a definite bonus, but the unit display on the the player doesn't give the track#, only the time lapse which makes you have to have the tv on just to see what track it is on. The fact of picture burn in coupled with no screensaver makes this onscreen feature worthless. There is a random function for music CDs but it is only within that CD and not across multiple CDs, which makes having a multiple DVD/cd player worthless as I like to listen to music in random order. Another serious problem with the player is upon watching my first DVD, "Scary Movie 2", everytime a scene that had multiple angles came on, an annoying movie camera icon would pop up. I could not figure out how to turn this "feature" off as it was not even stated in the manual. I would call Kenwood as they do have great customer service, but at this point I had already decided to return it.
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