Philips Magnavox DVD611AT DVD Player

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Summary: Great "starter" DVD player
Review: I was surprised to read the other negative reviews. We purchased this DVD player, and found it to be a great deal. We have not had a single problem with it - plays the few discs that we have without a problem, and the picture looks great. As far as sound and picture quality, they are great for the price. We had no problems hooking it up (a cinch) and the sound and picture are very clear. For someone looking for their first DVD Player (or an extra for the kids) this is a great buy.

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Summary: Keep looking...unless you want a disposable DVD player.
Review: I'm glad to see that I am not the only one who has had problems with this machine. It worked great for months (but much less than a year) then suddenly it would no longer play discs. I took the cover off to see if there was anything I could possibly fix and a piece had totally come loose, the main part responsible for spinning the disc. Needless to say it was beyond my help. It's dumpster material now. Please don't waste your money, too.

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Summary: Keep looking...unless you want a disposable DVD player.
Review: I'm glad to see that I am not the only one who has had problems with this machine. It worked great for months (but much less than a year) then suddenly it would no longer play discs. I took the cover off to see if there was anything I could possibly fix and a piece had totally come loose, the main part responsible for spinning the disc. Needless to say it was beyond my help. It's dumpster material now. Please don't waste your money, too.

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Summary: A solid investment
Review: Making the move from laptop to 27" TV DVD has been a thoroughly enlightening experience. This entry level Magnavox player does the job...it played The Matrix and Sleepy Hollow without a hitch. It froze on one movie, until I cleaned a highly used rental disk with dishwashing liquid and hot water, taking the oily fingerprints off it and allowing it to play smoothly. Sound is ravishing, even without the S-video and digital audio hooked up (my old Sony TV doesn't have such connections). And what a price, esp. with the coupons available these days.

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Summary: A solid investment
Review: Making the move from laptop to 27" TV DVD has been a thoroughly enlightening experience. This entry level Magnavox player does the job...it played The Matrix and Sleepy Hollow without a hitch. It froze on one movie, until I cleaned a highly used rental disk with dishwashing liquid and hot water, taking the oily fingerprints off it and allowing it to play smoothly. Sound is ravishing, even without the S-video and digital audio hooked up (my old Sony TV doesn't have such connections). And what a price, esp. with the coupons available these days.

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Summary: Good at some things, very lacking in others.
Review: Shopping for a DVD player, one basically looks for picture, features, good price and reliability. We picked this machine because it was feature-loaded and on sale at Circuit City. We basically crossed our fingers and hoped the picture was good enough and reliability would work out. We found that this machine does have an impressive array of features. Also, if you are looking for great sound, this is a terrific machine in that respect. However, the picture has been a great disappointment. We noticed lines ("wrinkles") around figures on the screen, a washed out appearance to the screen and none of the 3-dimensional quality that one can find in decent DVD players which also produce a razor-sharp picture, sadly missing from this machine. The movies watched looked like old movies on a rural TV station. At one point in DVD's we have watched, the machine would pause, garble, seem to sputter before getting back on track with reading the DVD--we think this might be due to the layering in DVD's which some machines unfortunately have trouble dealing with. This apparently is one of those. We are disappointed that our attempt to save a few $$ was not successful, but fortunately we have the ability to exchange for another machine from the kind people at Circuit City.

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Summary: horrible!
Review: Skips/Freezes on disks. Just when you get into a movie it will freeze/skip so horribly that you cannont continue watching. We didn't discover this until after the 6 month warranty ran out and Philips' solution was for us to pay ...for them to replace it with the same defective model. DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT.

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Summary: Disposable DVD player-
Review: This dvd player worked fine for about 7 months starting last January, and then started to exhibit a small amount of occasional skipping, and would freeze up every so often. Player would become frighteningly hot during/after playing a movie. It is now fully non-functional, a movie will skip constantly- there is no point to even try to play one. All of the reviews are true, this machine is an honest LEMON. Amazon.com needs to add a no-star rating, one star was far too generous.

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Summary: Absolutely Terrible
Review: This is a terrible product! don't let the other reviews fool you. This machine isn't worth the time or effort. You will put more time into trying to make the dvd's play than actually enjoying your movie. Every time that I play a disc it skips or shuts off! It makes noises at you constantly and takes forever to load anything. It doesn't matter if the dvd's are new or not. I am truly upset that I wasted the money on this machine. IT ONLY GETS WORSE THE LONGER YOU OWN IT! I have had this product for more than 90 days and the skipping now happens after every thirty minutes. Don't waste your money. Invest in something that you know will work proporly!

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Summary: Worse than the cheapest VCR
Review: This is the bottom end product for a reason. The playback is worse than the cheapest VCR, with the colors switching in and out from what they are supposed to be to a hideous red color. It ejects DVD's when it feels like it - not when it is supposed to.
This machine isn't worth the box it comes in.