Response to Richard Pingalore

Richard Pingalore is allowed to post reviews.

Richard, you are a schmuck.
If you are going to put garbled, unspecific responses as reviews, don't bother. How could something with a great picture that costs 175 bucks and comes with 5 free dvd's get only one star as a value rating. If you want, give it one or two stars for quality, but for value? You are a moron.

Price, mostly smooth and quick layer changes. Can turn off display on unit when watching movies.

Won't play CDR's or CDRW's. No digital optical out.
No component out. Can't eject disc from remote.

At first glance, this DVD MAY impress. However, after a little while, its shortcomings will become crystal clear.
First and foremost, it often won't read a DVD or CD at ALL.
It'll try for a few minutes, then say "imcompatible disc".
The only solution is to unplug the player for a couple of minutes, then plug it back up. Very annoying.
Secondly, on "The Man with the Golden Gun" DVD, it froze up at the layer change and got all pixelated for THE REST OF THE MOVIE!!! VERY ANNOYING!!!!
I thought these two problems were isolated to my unit, so I checked out my friend's "top of line" Proscan model...
What do you know, same thing!
Lastly, and this was unique to my model, it wouldn't read "HIGHLANDER" at ALL! No matter what I did!
I wouldn't recommend this player to ANYONE, unless they were on an extremely tight budget.
The picture quality is ok. The sound is ok. The best thing about this player was its price, $129. A good VCR will cost more that, coincidentally, so will a GOOD DVD player!

Similar Products Used:

Pioneer dv 414, Sony 550, Sony 530, Proscan w/ Divx(forgot model #) Onkyo dvC600.