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Summary: DVD as gift
Review: Player is not recommended. It does not play the new DVD's well at all. DVD player cleanly for 40-45 min. then will start to freeze picture and sound or just picture while sound continues. The movie will play like this until the end or it may just kick you out of your movie. Older DVD's play just fine. But, I like the newer DVD's with my surround sound. I'm kicking this one to the curb. You get what you pay for!
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Summary: Unless you have money to burn...
Review: This is not what I expected out of a reputable company, but with so many DVD players to choose from stay away from this unit. Freezes up or skips on most discs. Load time is excessive and remote is not very intuitive. Got taken on this unit plain and simple.
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Summary: Entry level DVD- NOT!!!
Review: This is not what I expected out of a reputable company, but with so many DVD players to choose from stay away from this unit. Freezes up or skips on most discs. Load time is excessive and remote is not very intuitive. Got taken on this unit plain and simple.
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Summary: THIS DVD PLAYER IS GREAT!
Review: This is the first DVD player that I bought, and that was almost a year ago. Today, it still works as good as the day I bought it.
It was easy to get set up, the remote fits in your hand well and it's got great features for a great price.
I watch DVD's ALL the time, and alot of them contain alot of extras. I have NEVER had a problem with the DVD not playing, stopping in the middle of a movie, not ejecting, or not taking a command. Mine has worked flawlessly.
The ONLY thing about this player is that it does take a few extra seconds for DVD's to load, and it will not play CD-R's. If you are looking for a great beginner player then this is for you. But if you are wanting a player that plays CD-R's, and has tons of features, then pay more and get a better player. This isn't the best player out there, but it's the best player for the money.
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Summary: The worst DVD Player
Review: This is the worst DVD player in the world. It will not play a DVD without skipping and freezing. I feel that I was taken for ride by the company.
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Summary: It plays...DVDs!
Review: This player does not seem to hold up after much time. It has trouble reading some discs now and when it does takes a long time. Okay, so it's a Philips and it is complete garbage. With what's out there now that's cheaper and better, I give this one 2 stars.I have found this to be an good player for DVD's but not much else. A few things on some of these reviews are just not true for this player, and I have tested these formats and been successful: -Video CD (VCD): ONLY ON CD-RW'S- It does play, even has a light up icon that says "VCD", just doesn't play very well- will fail to load sometimes and may skip
-DVD-R's: The ones I've tested work perfect every time, don't know about DVD-RW's yet So, this is not the greatest of players ...
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Summary: Gets worse over time
Review: This player has been unbelivably frustrating. When I first bought it, it played 100% of the DVD's. Within 2 months it would only play 80% of the DVD's I put in it... and now 6 months later it only plays about 10% of the DVD's I put in it. Doesn't matter if it's a new DVD or old... it either won't load, won't eject, won't play, or keeps looping infinitly, or stutters stop/start/stop/start constantly. A total waste of my money... I won't be buying from Philips again
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Summary: the tease
Review: This player is exceedingly slow to load and has the remarkable ability to freeze (lock up like a windows pc) in the middle of the most dramatic scences of any DVD. I think it was designed expressly for the sqeamish to watch horror movies. It senses your anxitey level and freezes before you become to scared. If you feel your blood pressure can stand to watch the whole movie without pausing then buy another player.
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Summary: Needs to be upgraded after purchase.
Review: Unfortunately, I did my research after buying this item. There really are manufacturing problems. I had a 45-minute online chat w/Philips and said the problems will disappear with an upgrade, even though the machines are brand new. They said that some of the special effects in the newer DVD's are unreadable to this player,(though Philips couldn't be specific about which effects were a problem), not that the 'effects' themselves don't work, the DVD becomes completely unreadable causing the disc to freeze. They assure me that the upgrade should take care of any problems the DVD players have, but could not tell me if the player will need another upgrade sometime in the future.
This is only a problem if you have a newer DVD, which is why my other/older DVD's play without a problem.
Someone else mentioned that this player didn't play Disney DVD's, it does. But, instead of putting in a disc and hitting 'close', then 'play', you must put in a disc and hit the #1 on your remote only or it will not play. Of course, the directions don't tell you that, I found it on their website.
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Summary: Unless you have money to burn...
Review: Unless you have money to burn, I would highly suggest *AGAINST* purchasing this DVD Player. The other day I finally gave it to charity. It stopped working a little over a year after purchase. I started getting "NO DISC" message as if the laser had stopped reading the DISC. I always expected more from Philips. I only used this DVD player about 25 times, and never moved it.
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