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Summary: WORKED FOR ONE DAY!
Review: I bought this DVD player 6 months ago for my Mom's Birthday, which was a few days ago. I always buy early and wanted to take advantage of all the deals around Christmas. The first time we plug it in we get the menu and the DVD starts. Then nothing. I have 40 DVD's and every single one doesn't work. I get a no disc error. Tried returing it to RCA and they say no! I have to pay some huge labor fee. I am past amazon's return policy, so basically i spent all this money and havn't even gotten one single use out of it! This is the second DVD player we have owned and it ...(stinks)! we bought one for ...(less money) at target that has lasted over a year and works perfectly! Do NOT BUY RCA!
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Summary: You have to unplug it between viewings!
Review: Am on my third one of this model...each one with the same problem. After a few viewings, it began to get choosy about which DVDs it would read. Sometimes it would not even acknowledge that a DVD had been inserted! I finally figured out how to fix it, since RCA could not. When it does this, you have to unplug the machine from the outlet for about a half hour. Apparently this resets something and allows it to read again. Now, until I can replace it with a better machine, I unplug it each time I turn it off. So far, this works. It's a shame...I have always liked RCA until this machine. It performs GREAT when it works, but I will think twice before I buy an RCA product again.
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Summary: Freezes up and has problems reading disks!!
Review: Have taken this model back to the store and exchanged it three times now. Each time it works fine for about 3 weeks, then starts freezing up, or tells me I have inserted an incompatible disk---even though it had already read the same disk before with no problems. Right now it is reading about 50% of the DVDs I own. It's going in the trash... That's a shame because I have always loved RCA products before. I'll think long and hard before I buy RCA again.
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Summary: just the basics
Review: I found this a good entry-level player. If you have a nice home theater system set-up already, I wouldn't go with this player though. The player lacks several features an audio/video enthusiasts may want: there is no component video output; no coaxial digital output; black levels, color, contrast, etc. cannot be adjusted; it cannot play cd-r/rw's or video-cds. It had trouble reading a DVD (ALL region Hong Kong Movie DVD) and it is very sensitive to the discs it plays; it doesn't even like minor scratches, causing skipping and pixallation. In addition, it takes longer than my other DVD (panasonic Rv31s)to load discs and ESPECIALLY to skip songs on audio CDs. This RCA, however, is great value player if all you do is watch DVDs straight on TV. The colors are good and contrast is good. I feel that the brightness level is a bit on the low-end causing some loss of clarity in the dark areas of the movie. I do pay attention to details so I notice these things. But, the difference is so MINOR visually most people won't notice anything less in this RCA than a more expensive machine. I would say that this player is perhaps the best you can get for this price (better than APEX and Oritron). Samsung players in this price range did get good reviews as well from Consumer Report.
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Summary: Great!!!especially when compared to others
Review: This dvd player is really easy and simple to use. The best feature is that it doesn't screw up at all! May seem odd, but I have friends who bought different brands and both of theirs is alittle weird about certain aspects. One friend's won't open everytime you want it to change dvds, sometimes it doesn't open for days. I really recommend this dvd player. It really is terrific and never gives me any problems. I've had mine for about six months and it still is working beautifully.
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Summary: Worrisome machine.
Review: Not having either a DVD or CD player (I just feed discs to my iMac), I found the discounted price on this model to be all the rationale I needed to invest in such a device. It's capable of producing flawless images and sounds--unless it chooses not to acknowledge the presence of a disc in its drive, which happens far too often with my temperamental (fastidious?) machine. I would also advise prospective purchasers to check dimensions, as this model requires extra deep shelves. Finally, its remote switch is more likely to be compatible with GE or other RCA monitors than with Philips, Magnavox, or Sylvania monitors. (It may be important to remember that a VCR plus DVD assembly requires running the latter in "auxilliary mode," which is hidden away somewhere in my set's menu choices and virtually inaccessible.) In short, the machine has done little to alter my high regard for similar products produced by Sony, Panasonic, and other Japanese manufacturers.
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Summary: good luck getting one that works perfectly
Review: I bought this player about a year and a half ago. It worked great (for about 3 months). It played all the DVDs and CDs. Unfortunately, it cannot read VCDs or CD-R/RWs. For most people that doesn't matter, I guess. However, only after about 3 months of light usage, the player started to act-up. Sometimes, it won't read the DVDs--the player indicated "no disc" in player. I unplugged it and it worked after re-plugging it 1 minute later. Then, it doesn't work again, and I repeated the same procedure of unplugging. Finally, I sent the player back to RCA. Since it was still under warranty, all I had to do was pay for shipping. It came back after about a month. It worked, and then I started to see the problem again within a couple of days. I was confused. Why does it work sometimes but sometimes it fails to work? So, I tested it out to see the prob. myself. It appeared that the disc tray motor sounded weak, and being unable to read the disc, I thought, could be due to the fact that RCA had provided a weak motor part. I was half right. I removed the plug from the UPS/power supply and plugged it directly into the wall. Ever since, the player was plugged directly into the wall, it shows no problem. I think I may have found a solution (for now)--the difficulty in reading the disc, I concluded, was due to lack of power [believe it or not]. Well, if you have the same problem, try unplugging it and have a dedicated power supply for this player. It might work.Beside this, the machine is good. It played every single DVDs I've ever rented or bought. I have this hooked up to my reciever through TosLink (optical cable). The sound is excellent--good proportion of sound from center, satellite, rear and subwoofer. It plays CD but it takes a second or 2 to skip to songs. Basically, don't expect it to play it like a real cd player. It sounded just as good though. The picture quality is excellent. Eventhough I don't have an HDTV, I could still clearly see the improvement over the VHS, or BETAMax tapes. I'm getting rid of it now because I want a new and better player that also plays VCDs.
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Summary: GREAT DVD PLAYER
Review: I HAVE HAD MY DVD PLAYER FOR A YEAR NOW AND HAVE NOT HAD ANY PROBLEMS WITH IT. TO ME ITS A VERY GOOD PLAYER. I KNOW MOST PEOPLE PREFER SONY OR PANASONIC. BUT I HAVE FRIENDS WHO BOUGHT THOSE BRAND PLAYERS AROUND THE SAME TIME I BOUGHT MINE AND THEIRS HAVE ALREADY BROKE AND THEY HAD TO GET SOMETHING ELSE.
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Summary: Not a recommended DVD player
Review: I owned the DVD player for almost one year and have had multiple DVD's not perform. Disney's "The Kid" will shut down the DVD player after the FBI screen. Disney's "Dinosaur" will skip chunks of movie, an 1 hour and 23 minute movie ended up being only 45 mins, because of all the skipping. I called RCA and they also stated consumers had problems with "Scary Movie" and others. RCA blames that DVD manufactures are not following guidelines but all movies mentioned play fine on my JVC DVD player. It took a year to find problems on the RCA DVD player, these films were new releases and if the trend follows, soon it could be more DVD's that won't play. My suggestion is don't buy it.
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Summary: Never had a problem
Review: Reading some of these other reviews makes me wonder if we're talking about the same player here. I've had mine for over a year now and haven't had a single problem. I don't play CDs on it, but it's handled every movie I've watched without a hitch. Based on my experience I can only recommend it very highly.
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