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I got my dvd player today, and its great, following the instructions I changed it to a multi region very easily.

So far it has played the following

DVD REGION 1
DVD REGION 2
SVCD
VCD
DVDR
JPEG PICTURES FROM MY PC
CDRW
CDR
MP3

GREAT LITTLE MACHINE AND WELL WORTH THE MONEY BUY ONE NOW
It does not have an LCD DISPLAY but you can't argue for the money, only one complaint when you switch on the power button there is no light, but just a small worry for an overall fantastic player. I already have 2 on order for presents!!!!!!

Let me start by saying I only purchased this dvd player as I had lots of vcds that I was fed up of watching on my pc.
I was skeptical about spending only 30 quid on a dvd player, and was going to bid on ebay for a proper vcd player instead, but reading the reviews I thought give it a shot.
For 30 quid its ridiculously good, and has prompted me to write a review for the first time, not something I would normally bother to do.
I have tried VCDS and SVCDS on several types of CD-Rs burned at different speeds and it plays them all. It also has worked fine with several types of dvdr+ and dvdr-. After doing the multi region hack I have tested it with dvd region 0,1,2 and 4, and all worked perfectly. The remote is not flimsy as per other reviews, the machine is light but doesnt feel too fragile, tho the whirring noise when it stops sounds a bit funny but am sure I get used to it. In fact the only criticism I have of this player is that when its switched to standby the red light that is on the power button is far too bright, I put my hand quite a distance away and it still glowed on it, it was almost like an optical mouse brightness.
I have to say I have not yet tried it with any CD-RW or DVD-RW or jpeg cds/dvds or mp3 cds/dvds but as these are not the primary purpose I bought the machine for, if they work it will be a bonus. As it stands I would like to give this machine 4.5 stars but I cant so will just give it 5 and try not to stare at the red led too hard :-)

Like others reporting here, I have already had to return one player back to Amazon, who have replaced it without any quibble.

The replacement behaved exactly as before.
The problem is that the player sticks and "stutters" on chapter marks on a whole range of DVD's and refuses to play "Pirates of the ..." and "Finding Nemo" which play OK on other players.
The remote control is very un-responsive, takes a number of button presses before the player responds.

Support from the distributor, Umax, is rubbish. Fair play to the German support site, they did respond within 1 working day, but not much help. Basically said get in touch with UK site.
I’ve been waiting for a response from the Umax UK site for over week. If you want to see how not to do Customer Support, give the UK site a phone call, sigh.

support@umax.co.uk - haven’t bothered to reply
support@umax.de - just refer you back to support@umax.co.uk

I am still trying to pursue UMax for a response, it this fails I will try to get hold of someone via the Yamada Taiwan corporate HQ.

Have a look around the Internet for an increasing number of problems being reported by the latest version of the Yamada 2500, seems only the latest release is affected, the earlier release has received great reports.

I am hoping that can get some satisfaction out of UMax / Yamada as the player would be great value-for money if it were not plagued with problems.

If this fails, I will be forced to return the player back to Amazon for a refund as it is most definitely not-of-merchantable quality, but the problem isn't with Amazon but the player’s design.

Was just about to return the player as it decided to start skipping furiously. Pulled the player out, which was sitting at the top of a stack of VCR and cable TV box, and the bottom plate (metal) was too hot to hold my hand on. So I left it to cool and tried again and no skippping! I've since put the player at the bottom of the stack of components and now it's playing fine again.

Good little player, although not amazing. Pretty good value for the money, but watch where you put it!

Got a new version player today, and the old Multi Region Hack does not work. You need to do the following:

1. Press "Eject" button on the remote control to open/eject the disc tray.

2. Press number "2812" on the remote control, the factory default region code
will be displayed on the TV screen.

3. Press "Play" button to select the region ( please note that we defined digit "9"
instead "0" for region free) code.

4. Press "Setup" button to exit settings.

These instructions are from UMAX themselves. And they work, I have tried several Region 1 discs and no problems so far.