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Summary: Worked great during first year and then became a H02 victim
Review: I brought this 13 months ago and really loved it until I experienced the H02 error like other people do. I followed the H02 solution posted by other people and it began to work again. Don't buy this player coz it won't last long and it 's not worth your $$.
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Summary: H03 And How I Fixed It
Review: Well I too am a victim of the H03 (or H02, I'm not sure I understand what the codes are). Well the good news, is I came to amazon.com to print my invoice and check the warranty on this POS. When I started reading the ratings, I decided to take the cover off. Procedure: Took off the cover and gently spun the mechanism. Plugged in; NOTHING. Spun the mechanism while plugged in; NOTHING. Then I just gently tapped on the "white circle" about three times and BOOM its all working again. I had to go to 2 stars though because I have gotten about 5k hours out of this player. With four kids, who refuse to turn the thing off when they leave 5 minutes into the movie, it has done some serious work for my family. But this is still unacceptable...especially when you consider I have a $....APEX that has about 20k hours on it and has not bobbled. Good luck, Dr. Kevlar
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Summary: Great DVD player, not so great MP3 player
Review: This has all the bells and whistles of a decent DVD player (without progressive scan). The featured that attracted me the most was that it could double up and serve also to play CDs with MP3 files. Having an Aiwa MP3 player in my car, I've made several mixes from my CD collection which I carry around in compact MP3 CDs. It would be nice to have a player at home that would understand the format and the RV31K does, but not without a catch. So, you manage to compile the craziest mix of MP3 files into a CD and you carefully organize it into file foldes. The RV31K does not understand the hierarchy and sees the disc as a flat file system. You can't go to the 5th song in the 8th folder directly unless you know that its the n-th song in the CD. That is, you have to use the remote control to punch in the number of the song you want to access. Try remembering that when a CD can hold over 100 songs. Since this was one of the first few players to have the MP3 feature, this is excusable. However, if this is something you care about, I'm sure you're better off doing a little bit of research to find a more modern player that can recognize file folders.
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Summary: Lemony Fresh
Review: Just wanted to put in my "zero star" review to try to push that overall rating down. Like so many others, my player died suddenly in the middle of a disc just three weeks short of a year from the day I ordered it. I don't remember seeing any of those bad reviews from early 2002. I was going to try to research repair options, but it seems inevitable it will go in the trash, and I'll try to get my disc back. *Sigh*
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Summary: H03 Corrected
Review: Hi-
My previous review stands: don't buy this product. However after the receiving the H03 I needed to rescue my imprisoned DVD. None of the suggested reset procedures remedied the situation. Using a tip from another reviewer I whacked it on top a few times and suddenly it seems to work again. I am happy for now but this just delays my inenvitable Sony purchase.
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Summary: H03 Error
Review: I picked this unit about 18 months ago. Just got an H03 error. Looks like I am not alone. After reading the reviews I can categorically state that I will never buy a Panasonic device again, ever.
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Summary: Dies after one year!
Review: The unit worked really well until I got the "H02" error after about one year. This failure is so common that it seems obvious that Panasonic dumped a known defective product on consumers rather than deal with the economic consequences of recalling these units. Very disappointed!
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Summary: Where's that trebuchet?
Review: After 13 months, the H02. I will try some of the ingenious suggestions offered here before I start looking for Chris and his piano launcher.
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Summary: ANOTHER VICTIM OF THE HO2 ERROR
Review: I too was hit by the HO2 error after about a year and half. I'm buying a Sony.
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Summary: DVD Video Freezes / Won't Eject
Review: The player has been plagued with problems since about 3 months after purchasing. Brand new DVD's freeze up during playback and the system frequently will refuse to eject the DVD's. Stay away from this unit. The worst move Panasonic has made is not providing adequate support/replacements for these systems. Any customer who has purchased one of these systems will most likely never buy a Panasonic system again. STAY AWAY FROM THIS UNIT!
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