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(53 customer reviews) 30 of 31 people found the following review helpful
Plays well, but minor quality gaps,
July 2, 2010 C. Yee (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Coby DVD298 Upconvert DVD Player w-SD Card Slot (Electronics)
Bought this as an alternate DVD player for playing DVDs & MPEG4 media files on USB devices (my primary player for which purposes is a Philips DVP5990).
A decent player overall, and I have no major complaints so far; but I have noticed a few things that could stand improvement, which I'll mention soley for the benefit of anyone who may be contemplating buying one for the same uses I did, and would have liked to have known, before purchasing this unit (over, say, the Philips DVP5990 for another $10 or so, which I can compare it to first-hand).
1) Case construction seems a bit delicate, as if it might be easily damaged in transit (don't know if it really *is* more susceptible to damage, it just feels much less solid than, say, a Philips DVP5990 case does).
2) Remote codes for this unit don't seem to be well-covered by aftermarket universal remotes; none of my remotes had a preset code that covered this unit, and many of its functions couldn't be "learned"...Read more
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Great for the price! SD reader is VERY handy!,
October 30, 2009 Reader in Palo Alto (Palo Alto, CA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Coby DVD298 Upconvert DVD Player w-SD Card Slot (Electronics)
This is a surprisingly good DVD player. It plays both pre-recorded and home DVDs very well. Picture quality is very good.
Features that I couldn't find on much more expensive players---like USB and SD readers---these save a LOT of time and effort.
Well worth the money!
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Great product but only last for a year!,
January 4, 2010 W.P. "Naive adventurer" (Austin, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Coby DVD298 Upconvert DVD Player w-SD Card Slot (Electronics)
I owned Philips DVP642 (4 years old) that could also play DivX, but wasn't very satisfied. After it stopped working, I decided to try a different brand, rather than upgraded to a new Philips. Coby DVD208 made me proud.
Lots of great Pros and lots of minor Cons:
1) Play most Mpeg4 video I tried. Also play MJPG (most digicam uses this). However, it didn't play the 720p HD Mpeg4 I have. Didn't have time to investigate why. Only play *.avi, not *.mov and others, but this is expected. I'm a PC, not Mac so this won't affect me much. There are lots of software out there to convert *.mov to *.avi.
2) It can read *.srt subtitle file while playing mpeg4. It does not read *.sub. The subtitle font color, though, is not configurable and hard to read.
3) Play from USB or SD fine, also support SDHC (mine is 8GB) BEWARE: you need to insert the SD card upside down!! I was trying hard to push it in the normal way and it went in almost completely, but I had to use a...Read more
