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Summary: ZERO STARS - Philips needs to recall this piece of junk
Review: I have had the same problems as the other reviewers. DVDs that won't play (for example, did you know that it won't play ANY Disney DVD? It's true), skipping, freezes, won't play CD-Rs, VCDs, or CD-RW.
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Summary: ZERO stars - Nothing But Trouble
Review: I have not been able to watch half of the DVD's I've rented. The other comments on this page are absolutely true. Poor performance. Skips all the time. I wish I had read these comments before I bought it!!
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Summary: Junk
Review: I have to agree with everyone here. Skipping, freezing, slow loading, and no load-up at all. We purchased our Philips DVD player as part of the home theater package. We love the receiver portion of the theater package but hate the DVD player. I think Best Buy wishes I didn't purchase the 4 year extended warranty package because it is going back for the second time in five months and I have every intention of taking it back every time until they know me by name. My procrastination and the long lines at Best Buy have stopped me from taking it in months ago. If you own one of these, don't think that it is the DVD disk that is bad because every time I thought it may have been a bad rental, we ended up plugging in our portable DVD player and finished watching the movie, with no troubles. So, if you are looking at buying a DVD player, take the advise from many others and look somewhere else.
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Summary: Terrific DVD Player!
Review: I really got my money's worth with this DVD Player. It has all the connections to hook up to the new digital televisions and it really performs. The Perfect Storm was really awesome on this player. I highly recommend the Philips DVD player for value and performance.
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Summary: Pure junk
Review: I thought a manufacturer like Philips would be roughly equivalent to other major brands. The 782C is pure junk. I couldn't play 75% of DVDs I tried. Commands took a looong time to execute. And when you entered another command while it is thinking about the current command, it could lock up. The CD mode played all the CDs I tried, but compared to my CD-only Sony changer, it was like going back to the early 80's in technology.On the otherhand, my JVC DVD worked excellently and played all the DVDs I couldn't watch on the Philips 782C.
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Summary: This is as Bad as They Come...
Review: I whole-heartedly agree with the below reviews. This is a total piece of trash, I would not even give a product like this away for free. When I first purchased this model, I went home, plugged it in, and the tray would not open! I then took it back to the store and got another one. This time, I am encountering the problems that everyone else has listed--skipping and freezing--even for new discs. My success rate with being able to play a disc from start to finish without problem is less than 50%, which is COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE. Even worse, I wrote Phillips a scathing letter with no acknowledgement from them whatsoever. I was going to send it back to them to get it repaired, but after reading the reviews below, I won't bother. I'll just pitch this in the trash, so thanks to everyone for saving me the postage. I wish I had seen these reviews before I purchased this piece of garbage.
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Summary: If you buy this, be sure to get the extended service plan
Review: I'm on my second 782C in four months. I'm sure glad I got the service plan, because it looks like I'm going to have to take this one back too. After it runs for about a half-hour, I have trouble with stuttering that eventually leads to a complete lock up. Granted, this is an improvement over the first one, which wouldn't get past the FBI warning on my Suspiria DVD. To be fair, most DVD's I don't have a problem with except for a little stuttering here and there, and I can get rid of it by starting over the DVD and skipping to where I left off, but I have at least two that I've had trouble getting past the first hour of. The afore mentioned Susperia and another Anchor Bay title called Phenomina. I had a friend test both these DVD's on his player and they played through for him with no problem. Perhaps the whole DVD thing is just a bill of good they sold us, two of my friends also have problem DVD's they can't play on their players. Nothing destroys a scary movie like stuttering, freezing, and starting over. And nothing turns me into a ludite faster then unreliable technology. Get your act together Philips, et al!
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Summary: If you got it as a gift GIVE IT BACK
Review: I've bought some junk electronics before in my time but this is as close to the bottom of the barrel as you can scrape. Out of the box it wouldn't play ANYTHING, whether it was a regular DVD or any of the two dozen types the manual says it won't support (CD-R, DVD-ROM, et cetera et cetera). I immediately returned it and got a five-disc Toshiba changer that was the exact same price, and it worked perfectly from the moment I turned the power on. Philips used to make good smeg, but their motto was wrong about this one: it's NOT getting better all the time.
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Summary: Yuk!
Review: I've read a number of reviews where they discussed the time between issuing a command and having it executed/completed and how that can be a "bit" or "somewhat" annoying. If you're trying to save money you may think that such a flaw is ok. Well, IT IS NOT. It is painful. I have 3 kids jumping around, and, from time to time, it is used to pacify or reward them. Such a wait complicates that process. (The preceding example is not intended to make this a "Daddy" review) Stay away from any DVD player where a reviewer mentions the slow response time. It's not worth it. Go get a second job if you have to but spend a couple hundred more.
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Summary: Pure Junk
Review: Like many reviewers I've had the same problems. Skipping, stuttering, freezing, all-out refusal to play and restarting. can't get past the FBI warning on Disney DVDs. This is the second unit I have purchased in the last month. The first I returned to the store thinking I had one defective one. The second one does the same thing. FRUSTRATING!!!! Had a JVC player for two years that was fantastic till the laser burnt out.
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