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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.

The dvd player worked well for 1 hour. Then the picture failed totally. This is when the pain began. It took over a week to get a customer number to enable me to return the item Promised call backs never happened. Then I returned it and it has been more than 8 weeks. Last story was this model is no longer made and they are trying to decide what to replace it with. Again a promised call back never occured. The item still has not been replaced! I would stay away from magnavox / phillips at all costs.

I purchased this dvd player almost 2 months ago, and am very happy with my purchace.It has a great picture, good optics, good sound, but depending if there are loud noises, you may need headphones. I used my walkman headphones,and they worked just fine. I have a friend with a no name brand, and you can't basically hear it without external speakers, so this was a concern for me. The sound is suffient, at least for the size of the speakers. I can sit a good few feet away and hear it just fine. The charge lasts a really long time. Well, I never played it for more then 3 hours, but the charge still remained. Plus I always charge it up before I store it, and when I plugged the battery back on the machine after a month, it was still fully charged. It comes with a remote which is a nice feature as well. I felt it was a good choice for the money, I am happy with my purchase.

My husband bought me this DVD player for my birthday earlier this month. I fell in love with it. The screen is a great size, picture is crisp and clear, I had these awesome headphones that when plugged into this player made it sound as if I were in a movie theater.

I only give this 3 stars because it just gave out on me 2 weeks after I got it. I thought maybe it was the plug or battery or something but those weren't the issues at all. It was just that the player stopped working. I was extremely disappointed with this.

With a name brand like this I did expect a hell of a lot more than just two weeks of pure enjoyment. Maybe it was just my luck or something.