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I love this thing. Had it for months now and never have problems! Runs great, Looks great, and it's nice and light and easy to carry around!! A MUST BUY!!!!!!!!!!

We bought this player almost 5 years ago right before a trip to London with our (then) 4 year old. This thing has been on planes, trains and automobiles with 2 children and has proven to be about the most durable electronic appliance we've ever had. I'm sad to see the 1-star reviews from people because our experience has been so different. It has survived being dropped from the seat of the car onto the floor of the car (more than once, I'm afraid) and is routinely operated by our four year old without any trouble. It's been just great. The sound and picture still work fine for their purposes and it's still going strong, knock wood. I wouldn't hesitate to buy another. In fact, ours is starting to show some serious wear and it wouldn't surprise me if it finally gives up the ghost. All in all, though, it's been a terrific value and I recommend it highly.

I bought for using overseas (VCD), the picture is very bad, poor, poior quality, if you have a T.V. to plug it into then great! I also bought it for the zoom and slow motion features - AGAIN - buy it if you want to use it as a temporary and have an alternative T.V. screen in which to view. I have had issues with it freezing, but I gues once it warms up, it works. Some DVD's and VCD's work in my old DVD player, but do not play on this particular model...I do not recommend this for these reasons.

Never in my life have I owned a product so terribly horrific and cheaply made. There are an ungodly amount of reasons why not a single solitary person should buy this, but I will only name a few. First of all, it is very low quality and has horrible overheating problems. I used it for just an hour and a half and it started skipping and messing up. I felt the bottom of the unit and it was very hot. Another reason is it has a horrible time reading widescreen DVD's. I tried every single widescreen DVD that I had and every single time it claimed that there was no disc in the player. The unit is also huge and clunky and nearly impossible to comfortably sit in your lap. Another thing is that, to do half the functions that the player has, you need the remote. This is a really big pain. First of all, you have this gargantuan monstrosity of a DVD player in your lap, then you have to dig out the remote and then spend five minutes trying to find the button on the remote because the remote is so difficult to use. I will NEVER EVER EVER buy another Magnavox product EVER again. I would reccommend getting in RCA player and saving about $40.00, because the RCA player is less expensive and works about 100 times better. So, do not get ripped off by Magnavox by buying this player for $240.00 and getting in return a product that is worth less then a dime. There are only two words to sum up this product, and they are MAGNAVOX SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!