9 out of 9 people found this review helpful.
Not worth the time or space it occupies.
Date of Review: Mar 20, 2004
The Bottom Line: Avoid this machine. It is so very limited, you will soon find yourself out shopping again for a more capable machine.
I bought this on the day after superbowll when Best Buy had nothing else left. The VCR portion of this player is poorly designed and will send a horrible unbalanced buzz into your TV set if you use the component video jacks on the front or rear without a tape in the drive. That is very shoddy engineering. If all you want to do is play VHS tapes and commercial DVD's, then it is OK. If however you want to play DVD's you have made of family and friends, you had better make sure they were created using the DVD+R burner, and +R disks. If you create small DVD's for friends and families on your CD burner, you should hope the friends and families do not have this player. This is the only modern DVD player I have found, that will not play home recorded most common, DVD-R disk. It will not play VCD's, it will not play S-VCD's, it will play MP3's. If you have a friend who creates home movies of the family and he has a DVD+R capable burner (most are -R) and he does not create the audio files in AC3 to accompany his video files, you might be able to view his movies, but you won't be able to hear his audio, The layout of the device is far inferior to much less expensive machines offering much greater flexibility. Do not waste your money on this piece of junk. Mine is 45 days old before I discovered it's limitations. I would not even *give* this piece of trash to anyone else, I will set it out for the garbage. Next Monday.
