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Summary: Magnavox makes crappy products.
Review: I purchased the MRD200 a year ago. After 10 months the audio would cut out when watching television, listening to radio, or playing a CD. No audio through the speakers or through the earphone jack. After a while it would return. The problem got worse and worse so I called Magnavox support and they said I would get a replacement if I shipped the unit to their exchange center in Tennessee. It cost me $61.00 via UPS, no RMA, no refund for shipping. Two weeks later I received a replacement, an upgrade actually, to the MRD210. I set it up and it works fine EXCEPT when watching a television program. With both the MRD's audio and the TV's audio on there is a delay that causes an echo. It doesn't happen all the time, it drifts in and out. After 15 minutes on-line with Magnavox's support I learn THIS IS NORMAL! The MRD200 didn't do it. I can't imagine this is normal, let alone acceptable. I won't be buying Magnavox products in the future.
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Summary: Absolutely lousy
Review: I purchased this item in July. I hooked it up and it did not work. I called customer service twice and was put on hold both times. The second time the customer service fellow was pleasant but not helpful. I rewired the surround system while he waited(seemed like it took forever). In the end, it did not work at all. So it sits here as a $200 paperweight that my wife teases me about.
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Summary: Wheres the sound?
Review: I received the MRD-210 as a gift. First the remote was tricky to get to work. When I finally got the sound to work it was wavy while watching television. I tried a dvd, the surrounding sounds were great, loud. The actual dialogue...I could see the lips move but could barely hear what they were saying. I know, turn up the volume. At maximum I could kind of hear them, the surrounding sounds were deafening. Would I recommend this to anyone, Im taking mine back and getting a Sony.
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Summary: An extremely disappointing system
Review: Our previous DVD player was a bottom-of-the-line no-name system, and, frankly, it performed better than this one. The programming on this system is very poor; for example, it is impossible to rewind through the beginning of a scene (you have to scene-skip back to the previous scene and then fast-forward to the end of it). The remote control combines the scene forward with fast-forward (and the previous scene/rewind likewise) but the buttons are often unresponsive, so we never know which behavior, if any, the system will exhibit when we press the buttons. Sounds or pieces of sounds are occasionally absent (and a switch to a different style of surround sound does not improve the matter). After six months of owning the system we are also frequently finding that sound and video are not perfectly synchronized, when the same DVD plays well on another system, and we notice a flickering/skipping of the image with some frequency that suggests poor handling of signal decompression. We are replacing our system with a different brand and strongly recommend that others look for a less error-prone model.
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Summary: best system for your buck
Review: PROS:: POWERFUL SOUND
EASY TO INSTALL
EXCELLENT VALUE CONS:: REMOTE NOT UNIVERSAL
DVD SLOW WHEN LAODING
NO S-VIDEO CABLE
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Summary: best system for your buck
Review: PROS:: POWERFUL SOUND
EASY TO INSTALL
EXCELLENT VALUE CONS:: REMOTE NOT UNIVERSAL
DVD SLOW WHEN LAODING
NO S-VIDEO CABLE
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Summary: To Clarify James O'Rear (Black & White Picture) Review
Review: This DVD player can send video output for both NTSC and PAL(European/Asian) TVs. If your DVD System Setup is set to AUTO or PAL and you hook up your DVD player to NTSC you will get Black and White Picture. Change your DVD System to NTSC by using menu "Picture Setup" and then Choosing Option "TV System" and you'll get color picture. I hope this helps.
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Summary: No dts Decoder
Review: This unit does not have a dts decoder and cannot play dts DVDs. Even though the Amazon tech details listings said it did when I looked and the editorial review said it did, the MRD210 does not. I put in a dts disc and the player said it couldn't play it. Also note that this unit has only 2 audio inputs, one for TV and one for AUX. In my case I found I wanted a third set since I have a TV, a TiVo, and a VCR. Also note there is no video selection capability in this unit so your TV needs multiple inputs and the remote is not universal.
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Summary: Magnavox MRD210 great value great sound
Review: This was my first sound system. Very easy to follow instructions with illustrations. We love the system and its ease of use. It has a sleek look that does not stand out in the room. So far so good! We are not music critics so don't really know what to compare it to except to say there is no comparison to what you get from the regular TV vs. this sound system. The MRD210 is a great value with great sound and easy to hook up.
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Summary: 0 for 2 with this system
Review: We recieved this system just before Christmas but the s-video connection only gave a black-and-white picture. I replaced my cable with a new one and got the same result. I switched over to the RCA output signal to get us through Christmas when it also began sending a black-and-white signal. I returned the unit (very easy, kudos to Amazon for their return procedures) and hooked up the new unit yesterday with the same result: black-and-white signal out of the s-video hookup. We tried all new cables, 2 other DVD players as well as another monitor and the results were the same. Sorry, no more Magnavox products in our house.
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