home dvd players

I read several reviews on more websites than Amazon. Everyone was reporting the Black and White issue. When I brought my DVD player home and plugged it in, I attached the cords as if I was hooking up a VCR using the 3 plugin's in a row. "WRONG"! Put in a DVD and turned it on. Black and White... I found this amusing. However, when all else fails, read the instructions. I reconnected the player according to the instructions using the yellow video plug in the yellow connector and the red and white in the audio connectors and we have wonderful color and audio. I am very happy with the results of this player. Using the audio jacks I connected the dvd player to my stereo and all sound comes through our surround sound and/or stereo speakers.

This player supports all the formats listed on the box wonderfully. I have tried the following DVD's and CD's and all worked great.
Regular store bought DVD's.
Home burned DVD-R and DVD-RW's video's.
Nero Created SVD to includes chapter selection support
Data DVD and CD which contains mpg videos. Each mpg video plays one right after another or you can select from a menu index which one to play. This includes the mpg videos created on my digital camera and copied to a DVD as a storage medium.
DVD-R burned in my burner using home video in avi format
CD with 200 plus MP3's burned on it. Displays index for picking songs individually or you can select to play random. Since my DVD player is connected to a stereo through the audio outputs, it doubles as a device for listening to songs through the stereo speakers.
Plays regular music cd's.
We will see how this holds up over a period of time, but I have an APEX DVD player that is over 3 years old and still works just fine. It was one of the first APEX DVD players that was marketed for $80.

I was shopping with my husband at Sam's club and saw this item for about $40. We wanted a dvd player in our bedroom but I was very skeptical because of the price and the size of this player. It is extremely small for a dvd player. It's actually about the size of one of my daughter's school books! For $40 I figured we'd give it a try and I'm really glad we did. It loads up the movies within seconds, unlike the $300 dvd player in our living room that takes forever for the movie to start. And for such a little machine, the picture it gives is quite incredible! I highly recommend this little player. For the price, you can't really lose. I plan on going out to buy a few more of them to stock up for Christmas presents.

The machine is supposed to also play cd's and mp3. I haven't tried that yet but it they work half as well as the dvd's, I'll be very happy. I'll actually have a "stereo" in my room now too!

I don't normally review products, but, as I was scanning for a replacement for this POS, I found it for sale here at Amazon and thought that I may save someone else the headache. After being used for a total of about 12 hours, this player stopped working completely. It decided to hold my DVD hostage, refusing to either play it or open the disc tray. After trying every resource I could think of, I finally extracted my DVD with a screwdriver. Luckily, I got the disc out clean, since it's worth more than this junk player. Spend the extra money for a brand with actual customer service.