I bought this player as a gift for a friend. I own a JVC XV-501BK that's about two years old and twice as expensive. I didn't realize how nice my JVC was until I used this player. The load time of the disc is unusually long (maybe 15 seconds). What exactly is it loading here anyway? My JVC loads a disc in about 2 seconds.

The button placement on the remote is a little unusual as well. The play button is in the top middle while the pause is at the bottom right?!?! At least it saves your stopping place when you hit stop (something my JVC doesn't do without hitting "Resume" first).

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.... I'd keep looking if I were you...

This is a great basic DVD player for the money. I'm not an expert by any means, but just wanted a good DVD player without breaking my bank account. I'm sure that those wanting very high end Audio/Video output for home theaters will want something more elaborate, but the Philips DVD710AT DVD player gives a great clear picture with nice digital dolby sound and many extra features not available on more expensive models. What a price - and free shipping to boot. If you're looking for a good, solid, basic DVD player, you can't go wrong with this unit. All in all, my kids and I are very happy with it.

I bought this DVD player for my husband for his birthday. Ilooked at several of the more expensive DVD players from Toshiba andJVC, but this one seemed to have most of the same features. He wasthrilled. he spent the whole afternoon playing around with it. Hemade me sit through the same scenes, as he hooked it up in differentways . We decided we got the best picture through the component video. He hooked it up through our a/v reciever and it sounds great. Wehave rented DVD's almost every night for the last 2 weeks. For [theprice] this was a great buy. I'd recommend it to anyone who wants tosit on the couch watch movies with their favorite guy.