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Buyer's review: - Only buy this if you need a set of speakers.
This DVD player is very sensitive to whether or not the disk is clean. Many DVDs that I have will not play on this player, but will play on my other devices without problem.

Also, the DVD player has no way to access the menus if you happen to lose the remote.

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Buyer's review: - Good for the cost
I bought this on July 4th, 2002 and then read the reviews at Circuit City (when they still carried it). I was horrified at all the negativity. But, I hooked it up and tried it out. It's GREAT! Never had a moment of problems, the tuner works great and the additional input allow me to have my VCR and video games play on Dolby, too. Why this model is out of stock eludes me. I truly love this thing and recommend it highly! Don't always trust all reviews you read. Trust mine, instead! LOL

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Buyer's review: - Good low-cost DVD/Receiver combo - and region selectable!
I've actually purchased this player as a gift for someone else, but I tried it out first to be sure it performed sufficiently. I was satisfied. The set-up was easy with color-coded wires, and the picture and sound were without noticeable problems. I even tried running my laserdisc player's sound through it, and its Dolby ProLogic decoding sounded good.

A little searching on the web will reveal that "Open tray - Menu - 1 - 6 - 7" lets you select the region code. ("Mute" selects region zero, or "all regions".) Of course, this player does not do PAL->NTSC conversion, so you can't watch PAL films without extra hardware.

I haven't tried the digital tuner or CD player, but I expect that those components also perform sufficiently.

Outputs:
Component Video
S-Video
Composite Video
5.1 analog audio (small but decent speakers & sub included)
Digital audio (coax & optical)
Stereo audio
Preamp audio

Inputs:
A/V (2)
Coax RF

The remote is a tad tricky to figure out, but I didn't have any functionality problems with it.

The biggest downside of this system is that it's all integrated - you can't swap out the receiver or DVD player for a better model if you choose to do so later. (Also, there is no digital audio input, so you couldn't run a different DVD player's digital audio through this receiver...)

Overall, I'd say this is an excellent system for the price, if you're not planning to upgrade for a while.