| Average Customer Rating: 3.0/5
Total Reviews: 4 |
Rating: 1
Don't Waste Your Money
| This player is terrible. It has a serious problem recognizing that a disk is in the player and refuses to play. Additionally, it will occasionally freeze. My friend has one too and experiences the same problems, so I think Magnavox is cranking out lemons. It's worth buying something more expensive or a different brand. Save yourself the aggravation. |
Rating: 4
Works well, has had a few "glitches"
| I have owned this about 6 mos. and it has worked great except once the "open" button on the unit stopped working and the buttons on the remote were acting funny, but this resolved after unplugging the unit for about 5 minutes. Reads my DVD+R backup copies of dvds perfectly. Overall very good for the money. |
Rating: 2
Technically not a DVD player
| This player did play DVD-R, -RW, and +RW (I didn't have a +R to try), but not well. It kept dropping frames (that is, the video would pause and then skip forward), which is generally a symptom of an MPEG decoder that can't keep up with the bitrate of the DVD. But the DVD was authored at 7.5Mbps max (average 5.5Mbps), and the DVD Forum standards specify that a DVD player must handle 9.8Mbps. This might not matter for most commercial DVDs, which (I've heard) tend to stay below about 5Mbps in order to coddle older players; but there are plenty of titles coming out these days that go for high bitrates to provide maximum quality. If this player can't handle them, then, technically, it is not a DVD player; it should not be advertised as such, and is probably not entitled to use the DVD Forum's DVD Video logo. |
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