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After reading the other reviews, I thought I would share my experiences with the Zenith 2200. I bought mine at a local retailer in June of 99. On those movies that played, picture quality with s-video cable was a knockout, and the sound coupled with a sony pro-logic reciever + 5 speakers is superb. This unit sold me on DVD forever. My VHS has cobwebs over the play button. The problem that I experienced with this player is that an average of one in 3 disks would freeze at some point in the last third of the movie. Sometimes I could skip ahead, then back and continue viewing, but more often, I would miss several chapters or the ending entirely. Also, the "Matrix" bug got me with this Player. I also experienced similar problems with "The Wild Wild West". I am hoping that this unit was of early manufacture, and that Zenith has erradicated some or all of these problems. I have finally said goodbye to my Zenith, and am probably going to buy one of the new Sony units. Im tired of missing the end of the show. My recomendation....Save a lot of frustration instead of a few bucks. Pass this player up.

I was very excited when I got my Zenith DVD2200 in the mail. Icouldn't wait to hook it up and watch some great movies. My first fewmovies on the machine worked great, but I could not get Ghostbusters to work at all! The player would give me a disc error every time I put it in. Finally, I called Zenith and asked what the problem was. They said it need a software upgrade and to send it in. I did, and got it back about 2 weeks later. This time no discs would work at all! NONE of my DVDs worked. I sent it in again, another two weeks... Now, all my movies work, but I have to put the disc in an average of three times before it will read it. Avoid this unit at all costs! Obviously, Zenith forgot to put the quality in before the name went on. END

This DVD Player is a descent Player for the money, However it does have several drawbacks. 1> Any DVD that has any sort of multitrack contiguous playback will not play either at all or it will skip all over the place. (Some movies with this problem are The Matrix, The Abyss, Alien, and several others that have multiple editions coinciding together). There is no statement on the DVD movie itself to warn you of this problem. Be warned that most retail sales store will NOT take back any movies for this problem, if they are open. 2> DVD Player has no optical output (Minor problem, if you are looking for the top of the line)

After singing the praises of this player I ran into problemswith my next couple pf DVDs. The Abyss continually skipped chapterseven though it played straight through in slow mode. I also had problems with other discs. I could not get tech support since they were closed. Rather than wait-and based on other reviews here, I returned the unit and bought the Philips. I tested ALL my DVDs on it and it works flawlessly. I think that if Zenith fixes a few things they could have a fine DVD player.

I purchased player 6/30/99. It's assembly date states April 1999. I now come to find out player will not play newer and some future DVD movie releases. Zenith is aware of problem but is unwilling to recall. E,G,. The Sci-Fi Movie "MATRIX" cannot be played in this machine. Per retailer (where purchased) other movie titles are likely to have same problem. Zenith using old LASER Tecnology and is unwilling to correct problem, even on new purchases. BE WARNED! DO NOT PURCHASE!