none that I can speak of...

Began it's whirring sound about four months ago, not on all discs, but on about 60% of them. Then TWO DAYS after it's one year's parts warranty expired, it no longer works at all. Makes lovely crunching noises as it tries to read the discs to no avail. I will not be replacing it with any JVC, GE or RCA model. Electronics should not break after light use in a year's time.

Don't buy it...I use alot of electronic equipment...and it's not, as some past reviews have insinuated, that I am either incapable of hooking it up properly, or because I use bad cables...unless of course you consider gold tipped Monster cables poor in quality.

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unrepairable

lost the audio, that's when I found out that G.E. DOES NOT HAVE ANY PARTS AVAILABLE for their DVD players. If it breaks, you have to throw it away & buy another one.

The new one WILL NOT be one from G.E. / RCA !!!

I'm getting tired of this mentality from the manufacturers.

This is my first DVD player, have nothing to compare it to, except the picture quality is bad to the bone!

Remote seems to act slowly.

Before I bought this in Oct. of 2000 I checked all the rewiews here to find the best one for the most resonable price. Well I ended up with this one for my own resons. And I very happy with it. It PLAYS all the movies I threw at it including THE MATRIX which seemed to be the benchmark of testing DVD players for multi layer capabilities. Occasionaly I will get a 1-2 sec. pause when it's changing chapters, but you hardly notice it.
Some of these people who went through 2-3 units cause they say they don't work, should probally have someone who know's what their doing to install one of these things. And use QUALITY cables! like running your sub with dollar store 24 gauge wire and giving the amp a bad name cause it don't put out like you thought it would.
There's alot of idiots in this world and I've learned this, don't make your judgment according to others, use your own judgment and try it yourself.
I'm otta here..

Great Picture, Sound.........easy setup, easy to use

will not play dual layered discs

If I'm going to spend $200 dollars on a DVD player, it should be able to play any types of DVD's. The first movie I tried to watch was the Matrix. I was disappointed when I tried to skip to later chapters. It would not play the second half of the chapters without skipping and without distortion. So I tried to just watch the movie straight through and as soon as I got to the later chapters, it would skip and get distorted. I found that the JVC has trouble reading dual-layered discs. I question the reliability of this player so returned it.

Sleek design, ease of use, great name..(JVC)

wish it had backlit remote, also wish it was universal, not just tv and dvd player capable

JVC RULZ!...I have never had any problems w JVC in the past..( own JVC tv, cd player, camcorder.....)and now dvd player.

great picture and sound..price can not be beat..better than an entry dvd player for entry price..shop around and compare sears had it for $199 and Ultimate Electronics will meet the price plus give you another 10 % off of that..
remote is nice, but wish it had a back lit on the buttons...dvd controls do glow in the dark so that helps..I also wish it was a universal remote..the one that comes with it will however control tv and dvd player...

LOVE IT >>>>LOVE IT>>>LOVE IT......

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Great features, nice remote, AV-compulink for other JVC component automation.

Reliability while navigating DVDs, lockups.

This is a nice budget unit. Appears to be the same as the JVC XV523GD except this unit is in a black casing rather than the gold color of the XV523GD. This unit appears to have the same capability to play CDR and CDRW discs, though the XV523GD goes as far a placing a sticker on the front indicating that. The same manual is included with either unit.

One complaint. It might just be my unit. When navigating a DVD with remote, and using PAUSE, my unit sometimes freezes permanently and will not respond to anything until unplugged. This is very annoying. Normal play of a DVD has been great. I have found only one disc, Disney's Tarzan Collector's Edition which stuttered on sound/pic in the end credits.

Based on the complaints of other JVC DVD owners, and I am somewhat leery that my player may not last through the warranty. My initial impression of the unit is great, except for the pause and crash.

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