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Most frustrating experiences with this DVD player. I do the same thing with any DVD disc. Open the player, insert the DVD and then this *** machine decides whether to read it or not. If it decides not then I get an "invalid operation" report on the top left of the screen. It makes no sense. For instance on The West Wing Series 2, it played the first and second side of Disc 1 but it refuses to read and play either side of Disc 2. I have gone to the extent of playing these rejected discs on another DVD player and they play fine. Can anyone help or is this a lost cause?

This DVD player is capable to read only half of DVD's in the market place. Is a firmware exist to correct that situation? I don't know... In many cases this Konka DVD player will stop to read a DVD in some parts of a film... But when it's working images are very good... Meanwhile, it should be always good to read DVD's...

i purchased my konka kd-1800u1 used from a pawn shop for 50 bucks and the only thing that i have ever had wrong with it was when i put in adaul layer disc alot of the times it wouldnt read and gave me a ivalid operation error but i didnt fret it to much because the reason i bought the thing in the first place was to play vcds and it did that well so one day i tried to play a dual layer disc and it worked fine with no errors and i figured out why it was giveing me errors when i put the disc in it was because when i put the disc in istead of pressing the open close button i was pressing the play button so now i just press the open close button and dont have any more problems its a great little dvd player and now insted of using my playstation 2 as my dvd player with an optical cable for dolby digital i use my konka with a coaxal witch i think sounds better as far as the remote go's i have know clue since i bought it from a pawn shop i didnt come with a remote so i just use my universal remote witch is a rca lcd touch screen remote witch is another fine product and i have know delays or slowness in responces

I'm rather serious when I say this is possibly the worst purchase I ever transacted. Every other dvd player I've come in contact with has far surpassed this ... machine, which has given me three-something years of agony and rage. Its response from the remote control is relatively long, it freezes up on some of my dvd's, screws up on reading the disc if I use fast foward or rewind, and is incredibly slow. When I first bough this, I wasn't expecting anything great, but at the same time, I did not expect for it to be of such low quality. I give Konka the Black Mark when it comes to this product.

It will not play DVDs. On 3 separate occasions, a rented DVD was put in, and it gave some error code. After an hour or so it might play the movie. Uhhh, just a thought here, but shouldn't a DVD player play DVD's? Sorry for the sacasm, but it seems that the quality of everything is pathetic in general and has been getting worse over the past few years. This is just one more thing that is not some unknown technology, (DVD players have been common for years now), and it simply has no excuse for not working other than shoddy engineering / assembly or perhaps both.