Memorex MVD2042 DVD Player

Pros: Design, Picture quality, quiet, PRICE
Cons: remote control set up, automatic subtitles

My other cheap Chinese DVD player broke in my room and I needed a quick and cheap replacement. I figured I would give this a try. Experience in using product: I use it for the most basic function...DVDs. I believe that this is what this item is ...

Pros: Quick easy setup/install, small, light, thin , easy movie play as well.
Cons: Is this a sign of more things to come. Things might be breaking now.

As like most people here, the price was extremely reasonable $39 at Target on sale. We got the desk just about a year ago, just after Christmas (Jan 2006). It has run pretty well, it is sometimes noisy (we attributed it to some DVD's). The buttons as ...

Pros: Skinny, silver, inexpensive
Cons: Button on remote is small and hard to read.

"When I was a kid, we didn’t have DVD players." I said to my 12-year-old when we brought this home. "How did you get by?" he asked. "Well we played outside, we were kids. It wasn't like it is these days. Then when DVD players did come out they ...

Pros: LOADS FAST, EASY READ, LUMINATED DIALS, EASY OPERATION
Cons: NONE

I HOOKED THIS PLAYER UP TO MY VINTAGE BOSE RECEIVER THAT WAS HANDLING 3OO WATTS PER CHANNEL OUT OF 12 SANSUI SPEAKERS, OUTDOORS AT A PARTY, THIS CD PLAYER WAS ABSOLUTELY THE BEST, PERFORMED PERFECT, DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON MORE EXPENSIVE CD PLAYERS, THIS ONE PLAYS CLEAN, CLEAR, AND CONCISE, ANY PLAYER THAT WORKS THIS WELL WITH A BOSE RECEIVER IS AWESOME AS BOSE IS THE TOP OF THE LINE IN ANY YEAR.

Pros: Plays MP3, and many formats, progressive scan, CHEAPEST OF THE CHEAPEST. Slim and light.
Cons: It is so delicate that sometimes it slides when my son puts a movie.;)

My story begins more than a year ago when I decided to buy a DVD for my toddler (now 3 years old) boy to watch his movies, so I got the cheapest DVD player in Sears: an Apex for 40 bucks... luckily I bought the extended warranty for $10 (I strongly suggest this) and when the Apex started to fail I went to the store and changes it for the second cheapest: this Memorex MVD2042!
I am happy with it, I have not experienced none of the problems listed by the other reviewers, and the main user is a 3 years old kid!!!!! who watches it every day.
My husband even managed to program it so it can read DVDs from around the world, no matter the region. So I am more than happy with a long lasting cheap DVD perfect for my kid.
When it dies I'll get another one.

Pros: mp3 and vcd support
Cons: no optical out, lighted remote would be nice

Bought mine a while back at best buy, yeah a little cheap and lacking some extras but it does a fine job of playing dvds.

Pros: Price, easy to use
Cons: unreliable

The price is nice but....
after only 6 months of little use it would not recognize a dvd. Maybe it is a lemon.

Pros: Cheap, time display on unit
Cons: Slow processing, flakey audio, Subtitles always come on.

Well, my $60 Samsung died on me after 18 months of moderate use. So I bought the Memorex based on looks, time display, and price. After hooking it up I realized that my audio is almost non existent. Picture looks great for such a cheap unit, but the audio output on this particular unit is junk.

UPDATE:
The next unit's audio was just fine. However, I have found many things to be extremely annoying. If you jump around much on the disc, the audio tracking gets off. Subtitles always come on. When turned off, does not remember what point you were at. Happens everytime, is extremely annoying. Player gets hung up, and proccesses really really slow when playing around in sub-menus. It's pretty easy for me to lock it up to the point that it shuts itself down. Also, sometimes, and I can't figure out why, you cannot turn the unit back on with the contols on the face. You must find the remote control to turn on the unit, or pull the power cord and restart it that way. So it's not worth the money you save if this is your primary DVD player.

Pros: price, appearance
Cons: durability, lifespan

I watch approximately 5-6 films a week. At first, this machine did everything I needed it to - it played the film. There were some unusual glitches that other reviewers mentioned regarding subtitles, but that didn't disturb my enjoyment of the film. After six months, I had trouble opening the dvd door whether there was a dvd inside or not. The control panel would read "open" and I would wait a good 3-5 minutes but the door would not open. I tried the remote and the same problem happened. After turning the power on and off, I would occasionally get lucky and the door would open. I'm calling it quits on the machine at this point. Due to its low price, however, I wouldn't necessarily go out and buy a different model.

Pros: Cheap, looks ok
Cons: Subtitles are very buggy, menu's look lame

So this DVD player does work -- however every time you put in a disc, it defaults to english subtitles no matter what. Ok no big deal I can turn off subtitles. Except this only partially works. On the Team America World Police disc, when you turn off English Subtitles you get French subtitles whenever there is something written on the screen or when a song is being sung. Really irritating!

Pros: Cheap.
Cons: The severe lack of quality negates mt 'pro'. It is simply a bad product.

This broke within 13 days (and 5 DVD's) of when I purchased it anew. The retailer exchanged it for another, which seems to make bizarre static noises louder than the audio of the actual DVD. It seems to work again (temporarily) when I shut it off and restart it. What a nightmare of a purchase!

Pros: Cheap
Cons: Broke quickly

We've owned this player for 2 months and after the first month, it stopped reading discs on the first try. We sit in front of it and open and close, open and close, open and close, trying to get the thing to read the disc. Occasionally it works. However, it never makes it through the whole movie without messing up.

And we have the same audio tracking problem.

I would send in the warranty, but I don't want to be given another one of these horrible machines. Ouch! There goes 35 bucks!

Pros: Price, size, functions, ease of use, image quality except for color.
Cons: Unacceptable image coloring in 2 out of 2 machines.

Black and white works fine, but color is terrible! It cycles continuously from light to dark with odd tinting. For example, for 5 out of every 10 seconds the Caucasian people have neon orange lips and cafe au lait skin tones. The other 5 they are pasty white. We bought the special support for $5 and are going to exchange them if we can't return them.

Pros: cheap
Cons: mine won't open after only 5 uses

I have not experienced any of the sound or picture quality issues others describe but that may be because I have only had the chance to use the player 5 times over the course of 2 months. The fifth DVD I watched is now stuck in the player. I contacted customer service via e-mail and was given asinine instructions requiring me to hold down the power button, unplug the unit, count to 15 and try to open it with the remote. Needless to say this didn't work and since I no longer have the receipt the 90-day limited warranty is useless to me, although I'm not sure that I would want to pay to have this shipped to Memorex given the other problems experienced by reviewers that were able to use the player more than 5 times.

Pros: None.
Cons: Everything, at this point.

Bought it. Brought it home. Took it out of the box. Hooked it up. Put a DVD from a rental place into it. Machine spit it out. Put another DVD into it. Machine spit it out. Tried to close the DVD tray without a DVD in it and it opened right back up again.

Turned it off, disconnected and reconnected everything (just in case I'd somehow made a mistake the first time), went through the same test cycle with the same results.

Checked the documentation enclosed to see if it shed any light on this behavior, no dice. Checked Memorex's website for relevant information, no dice.

Needless to say, this is going back to the store tomorrow.
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Update 3 days later: Immediately after I had written the above, I fiddled around with the machine some more. For some reason going into the setup menu got the darn thing to work. Yay! I actually got to watch part of a DVD on it!

Unfortunately the next time I tried it, it reverted back to its previous opening/closing behavior. This time I couldn't even get back into the setup menu. So back to the store it went.