Get your butts to walmart! Cyberhome DVD player DVD655.

[funboy6942]

Originally posted by: OrSin
I owned one. It was piece of crap. It would take 20 secs to even bring s regular and over 1 minute for and avi, or dixv files. It would randomly lock up. The mnue screen is not support while a dvd id playing so you ahve to stop the dvd to change most settings.

$25 is ok, but you get what you pay for.

So far though for me I havent had a lick of problems at all. I still havent gotten around to trying divx but it has played every movie I have thrown at it so far without as much as a hiccup. As for not getting to the menu Im sorry but I havent own one dvd player that would let me get into the set up menu of the player itself without having to press stop and that includes the over $400 sony I just sold and the cheaper ones here in my house still.

 

[kazel]

Still $39 in Champaign and Savoy, IL.

 

[rile0161]

I went and bought this today and it is a piece of ******. It did not work out of the box on any inputs. The only time I could even get a picture was by hooking it up to composite inputs, and then it was black and white and constantly scrolling up and down. I tried it on both of my TVs as well. Hopefully I can return it since it just doesn't work, but I'm wary since it was clearance.

*edit* This was also a brand new in box unit, not a display.

 

[conehead433]

I'm holding out for the Oppo 971 or if I wait long enough a combo Blu-Ray/HD DVD player. I was thinking the Oppo would start dropping in price, but It's still ~$200. If you are using a screen less than 50" you could probably go with the newer Oppo 970 for around $150. I need the 971 for a 129" digonal screen and would much prefer buying a quality machine that's going to last a few years.

 

[BigBirdBuggy]

Originally posted by: sixt7gt350

Originally posted by: AStar617
Good price, except I'm generally worried about Cyberhome build quality. Every one of their units that I've come across (friends/family homes) was reported broken soon afterwards...

Internet reports are typically 3-8 months of use before the power supply takes a crap and weird things start happening. 1.5 years later, my $25 Cyberhome 300 that I bought for the kids' room took a crap today. It wouldn't read the disk that was in it, nor open the tray. I used the mechanical switch on the bottom to open it up. It closed on its own, but still wouldn't read the disk. I went into RadioShack for replacement capacitors to repair it and they didn't have squat for component selection. "We've got new DVD players we could sell you, though." "No thanks, I've got a backup." The GoVideo DVD player may be top load, but it certainly has lasted longer. (and has a cool karaoke feature that the kids love!)

The Cyberhome would read every type of disk I put in it, but I wouldn't recommend it because of poor quality.

yea...we have had the DVD500 version for about two years and it has recently started to give us problems. Each time you turn it on it will shut off in about 3 seconds. Repeating this step a bunch of times extends the shut off untill it is able to then eventually open the drive for the movie. The possibility of a bad power supply, as mentioned above, is the probable cause of this.

These are nice though because they are easily hacked to play international dvds

 

[mikeford]

none at Orange Ca walmart

 

[tvarad]

I can vouch for Cyberhome's lack of build quality; the DVD player that I bought crapped out on me a couple of months after I picked it up.

On the other hand, it's worth it to take a chance on a $25 upconverting DVD player.

 

[CrapHead]

Couldn't find any at my local Walmart.

 

[craftech]

With all the questions and discussion about the unit you are all overlooking one BIG thing. Almost all Walmarts were out of stock of those units six months ago. The original poster's find was a FLUKE.

John