This is my first DVD player. I've had it since June 2003, and it still works. It lives here with me, and there are no kids around to destroy it, and it gets played once or twice a week. Why wouldn't it work? It's extremely slim, has a cool blue light when it's on, and I've been able to play everything I've ever gotten from Netflix. So, as far as I'm concerned, this player is great!

There are a couple of things I've noticed about it, and I don't know if this is common practice with VCRs or not. But not all my reviews are for ranting or raving; I like to inform, as well! So here's what I know:

I don't have cable, and I've noticed that if I sit the machine on top of my TV, the reception on the TV gets very snowy. It took me a while to figure out why my picture got so bad, when I had a powered antenna that usually brings in a great picture for me. This problem went away when I moved the DVD player off the TV and onto its own shelf.

I think the machine is very quiet. Mind you, I live... Read more

ALL I CAN SAY IS THIS LIGHTWEIGHT SKINNY BLACK ... DVD PLAYER IS AMAZING. IT PLAYS EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN WITH PERFECTION. THE SOUND QUALITY TRAVELED THROUGHOUT OUR HOUSE. MY SON PUT IN SOME OF HIS G.I. JOE CARTOONS HE GOT AT A CONVENTION AND THE QUALITY LOOKED AMAZING COMPARED TO HIS $300.00 JVC. DON'T SLEEP ON THIS PLAYER BECAUSE IT'S CHEAP. IT'S BETTER THAN ANY SONY OR ... APEX>

I bought this unit to replace my older Sony unit, which has trouble playing home-burned CDs and some home-burned DVDs. Furthermore, I thought that with progressive scan it would be a good match to the component inputs of my JVC 56" projection set. Immediately I noticed bad video artifacts on any fast action scenes...anything moving horizontally would have streaky lines trailing it. If you then "rewind" over the same section, it would play fine! I tried every possible combination of settings and switched from the component outputs to S-Video and even composite, but the streaking remained.

The JVC is on it's way back to the store, and my Sony is back in place. Maybe I got a lemon, but I'll be looking at other brands.