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This magnavox combo failed with 4 months of purchase. Using the DVD side returns a Disc error message, leaving the DVD player totally unusable. Full Warrantry was only for three months, but Phillips Consumer service offered to exchange the unit for the same price I paid ($129)to purchase it.

The remote is also difficult to use, and lack of a remote eject option is surprising bothersome.

I didn't get mine from Amazon, but from a brick and mortar Target. This is strictly a public service:

Bought it around Thanksgiving, and before Christmas came, the DVD unit quit loading. I called Magnavox and after agreeing it was an obvious hardware failure they wanted to give me a shipping address where I could send it and get a replacement. Instead, I went back to the store and got them to give me a replacement unit.

It's January 15 and guess what? Last night the DVD drive on the replacement failed just like the first one.

For the record, I do not use the thing more than about three movies a week, so it's not like I'm demanding an industrial duty machine.

I can not state it strongly enough: it is a piece of junk, I would never buy another and my former faith in the Magnavox brand is no more. An inexpensive machine isn't expensive when you have to return it twice for an exchange. The only reason this review has one star is Amazon does not offer a zero.

This item works really well...for about three months right after the warranty runs out. My dvd player also ceased working about 31/2 to 4 months after I purchased it, and from what you all are saying, I'll have to purchase a new one at full price! Talk about horrible customer service! I will not be happy when I get the news from my e-mail I just wrote them. What a load of crap.

Too bad the ratings don't go into the negative. OK, I got my father (who lives 1,000 miles away) this DVD/VCR Combo for his birthday in August. He's not technically inclined so it took him a day to set it up and he played his first DVD, Winged Migration (which drives my mom crazy).

He doesn't use it for a few months and decides he wants to watch it again in November. It's not working, so he calls me up and wants some technical support from me, since I am 1,000 miles away it is rather difficult. I figure he doesn't know how to switch from TV to Video so I square him away on which remotes to use. He tries it and nothing happens. I tell him to get better cables, believing in Magnavox's reputation for being a quality company, I figure better cables will fix the problem.

He calls back a few days later, after he finally got the new cables. Nothing is working. So today I go to the Magnavox web site to check for a PDF of the manual. The site is just a big empty screen. Nothing is loading. So I decide to see if anyone else has had problems with their machines. I come across this site and my stomach turns sour. I just found out the present I bought my dad for his birthday is a piece of crap.

I now have to call him and tell him, and with the Maganavox site not loading it feels like a thief has slipped away with my money and disappeared. It's like they won't even face me.

This product sucks, I will never buy a Magnavox product again and I will make sure no one I know buys one of their products either.

I also learned a valuable lesson, do the research.

Unfortunately, I bought this product without researching it. The DVD player is absolute junk!!! The DVD tray quit opening after 8 months. I also was told by the company that they would be happy to replace it for "discount" price of $99. Given that I only paid this plus tax, it was no discount. Given the company's policy on this item, I strongly urge everyone to take a pass on Magnavox products.