Product Description: The ultimate all-in-one player that plays your movie collections in DVDs and VHS tapes. This combination is the only player that maximizes convenience and enhances your movie experience. One player plays it all.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - A really expensive paperweight...
In purchasing a DVD/VCR combo, I wasn't looking for any special features, really, I just wanted a reliable name brand that would allow me to watch both DVD and VHS without too much of an ordeal.
Words cannot begin to describe how much I regret purchasing this player for a couple of very simple reasons. Right out of the box, it froze while playing brand new DVD's. really? hey, i know, let's use the DVD player cleaning disc. Oh, it won't play that? really? it's because of that ridiculous progressive scan feature?
Whoever invented Progressive Scan perhaps wanted to ... Read More
Rating: - Meets my needs
I bought this as a replacement for a VCR. I was aiming to get a fairly inexpensive unit that would record and play VHS tapes. It does both of these things just fine. I haven't even tried the DVD player. As others have noted, it doesn't have the coax antenna connection, but I don't need that connection. I'm happy with it.
Rating: - Just what I was hoping for
Electronics sometimes confound me and I just wanted something easy to work and of good quality so I could play my new DVDs and fav old VCRs; so I read lots of reviews on Amazon before picking this little refurbished sweetie and couldn't be more pleased. The price was good, free shipping was a bonus and the seller shipped really quickly. I hate driving around town for a bargain but I love the convenience, ease, and customer reviews on Amazon.com., so I made the choice of this Philips combo and glad I did.
Rating: - put rf modulator after cable box.
If you have an old tv without the red/white/yellow inputs, you will need an external rf modulator to use this combo unit. But nothing in the Phillips literature or website mentions this. Amazon sells rf modulators, and they should cost about $20. Also, if you have a Verizon FIOS cable box, you have to place the rf modulator between the cable box and the tv. I don't know about other cable boxes. I had gotten the impression from the FIOS install guy that the cable box had to be the last element before the tv. But I couldn't see the combo unit signal until I moved the modulator "upstream". It's something ... Read More
Rating: - vcr/dvd
The delivery was very very fast, the quality of merchandise was great- only thing I didnt like was NO INVOICE was included
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