I see these getting thrown out a lot, even though there really isn't anything wrong with them. The problem is that sometimes the plastic platter that holds the DVD has been pressed too deeply onto the motor shaft at the factory. When this happens, it causes the skidding-scratching that others keep writing about. Gently prying up on both sides of the disc platter at once fixes this. Only raise it up the thickness of a matchbook cover, you will fix it. Every tossed one I've found was fixable, even those that Radio Shack SMASHED in the dumpster :-( .

This unit is great for playing MP3 CD's and also plays MP3 DVD's as well. You can burn a mix DVD with your entire music collection on it and not worry if the disc gets stolen.

Internally this thing runs on a 12 and 5 volt power supply, so you can hack it to work in a car!Just feed it thru your aux input and listen to MP3 DVD's there as well. Car is 12v, so just steal the 5v from a junk phone charger.

I LOVED IT

By Value Hunter from Olney, MD on 6/10/2008

I wanted something cheap to play DVD's - nothing more. That's exactly what I got. It's small, easy to use, plays a DVD, and at [$], how can you go wrong? If you're looking for something fancy with colored lights, multiple disks and a crazy remote, this isn't it. This is great value for something simple. It just sits there and plays my movies, and that's all I want.

I have used it on all types of DVDs, both home and movies along with music CDs and haven't been disappointed yet. We have used both the cheap ones and high priced units before and this one just plain gets the job done with no frills!

I have dropped this at least 10 tens, even broke the door off when I dropped it once. It still works! Had it over a year.

This product is GARBAGE with a Capital "G".
I bought this hunk of junk at Radio four days ago. (2/15/08) It is now Tuesday (2/19/08) And The DVD Player STOPS WORKING. First, It skips on my "Why did I Get Married" DVD (Good Movie, by the way), then it just stops. And when I ejected it, My DVD had scuff marks on it. Now, It won't play ANY DVDs.

If you want quality, Do not buy this product. It may be economically sound, but that about it.

THIS A GGOOD DVD-PLAYER I GAVE IT TO MY GIRLFRIEND. AND I BROUGHT ME ONE THAT COST MORE MONEY. THE GXP-DVD PLAYER WOULDN'T EVEN PLAY MY DVDS, CDS, I KEEP GETTING A MESSAGE SAYING BAD CDS, BAD -DVD. THE PHILCO COST ONLY [$] DOLLARS AND MY GXP-DVD-PLAYER COST ME [$] DOLLARS IT SEEMS THE CHEAPER DVD-PLAYER BEAT THE MORE COSTLY DVD-PLAYER SO I'M BUYING ME ANOTHER PHILCO- DVD-PLAYER.

By Rossco Hinton from cleveland Ohio on 1/27/2008

THIS A GOOD ONE I REALLY LIKE IT I BROUHT ONE FOR MY GIRLFRIEND, AND I'M GOING TO BUY ME ONE ALSO. ITS A SUPER BAD DVD-PLAYER.

I used this 3 times and it stopped working... So now I can't watch ANYTHING! Thanks Philco for screwing me over. I am now motivated to go out of my way to make sure no one ever buys this again. EVER...

Please, I advise you, spend ten extra dollars to buy a dvd player that isn;t absolute garbage. It refuses to eject a dvd, [...]!!!! DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT. I wish there was a category for no stars.

By Duty NCO from Philadelphia, PA on 12/22/2007

I bought this as a replacement piece because I was using my XBOX as a dvd player and it died. The remote has a ton of features including a memory stop which seems to remember where you stopped dvd and picks up where you left off. I just opened the box and plugged it without reading the manual and everything is intuitive.

THIS UNIT WAS EASY TO SET UP BUT ENDED UP EATING MY RENTAL DVD AND IT LATER REGURTITATED IT HOT AND SEVERLY SCRACHED.