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THough I may have a defective unit (I am about to send it back to Philips) this unit drops about 30 seconds of audio after any PAUSE, FWD, REV, or layer change. Makes it REALLY annoying to go back and watch something over again. On the plus side, a DVD/MP3 combo for [this price] is a great deal. I picked it up at Costco, but they QUICKLY discontinued carrying ANY Philips DVD players. Maybe too many returns??? Let me know your experience with this unit...

We bought an entire system. We had heard that Phillips products were reliable, but almost everytime we watch rented movies on the DVD player, they skip. Sometimes the movie will stop on the screen for a minimum of fifteen seconds at a time. It's a problem comparable to the tracking being off while watching a VHS movie. It's extremely annoying. We tend to use our VHS player much more than the DVD because of the skipping problem.

The first couple of months the product was terrific, but then we noticed that the on/off button rarely works now, and the DVD freezes constantly. I don't know if it is a lemon, but it is very poor quality performance wise.

I bought this unit from Costco for [$] hoping that it can play copied VCDs, and it can! The DVD picture quality is good, and I have not experienced any audio dropping after I a forward/backward/pause function. BTW, it can only forward/backward at 2X. If you need a basic unit, this is a good buy. (I haven't tried the MP3 function yet.)

It's almost as if Phillips produced a mystery product, (not much info. available) but so far, we like the DVD player. As far as the mp3 playback, it's great! However, there are a few limitations: files must have an .mp3 extension, unit can play up to 200 files per disc, unit does not play mp3 files in the order that you recorded them, it takes over 30 seconds to read the mp3 files and up to 8 characters are displayed for the name of a track. Also, it's recommended that you use only the root folder for tracks.