DVD Players for TV with HDMI, DVD Players That Play All Regions, Simple DVD Player for Elderly, CD Player for Home Stereo System, HDMI and RCA Cable Included

Really good DVD. I like it a lot. It plays all the different regions of DVDs I have. The picture is good, at least to me. I read before purchasing that some of the buyers had an issue with the remote. I find it absolutely all right. No issues so far. And I have quite big hands. :) Installation was quick and basically, I had to connect it and it started to work.Really good item. Very good for the price. Really small. I don't find it loud. To me is quiet. Of course, when the DVD is loading, you can hear it loading, but while watching, no issues at all.So, my personal opinion about this small DVD is 5/5. Exactly what I needed.

I have only had this DVD player for a couple of days, but I am very impressed with it so far. I can now play some DVDs that I have from Australia, which I cannot play on my PC or ordinary DVD player. The picture quality is good, it is very easy to set up and use, and it takes up very little space. The menu function works better than the one on my old Panasonic DVD player (which I still have connected, because this new one takes up so little room). This is a very handy product and at a very reasonable price.

Device received on 13 September 202This review on 9 November 2021 (60 days' subsequent)I will start by stating that the model I received is the Electcom ELC-1910 multi-region DVD player (the model's identification was not displayed on the site when I ordered it).To date, this player is providing satisfactory service. It plays my DVD's from North America (where I lived for many years) and from Britain without specific action required on my part. I place the DVD into the drive and the DVD plays regardless of its origin.The player arrived in a neatly presented and packaged box. The box contained the DVD player (with a mains cable moulded into it, terminated with a three-pin UK plug), one HDMI cable, one three-channel A/V cable (RCA cable), one remote control, and one instruction booklet.The player is aesthetically pleasing (as any entirely black box can be). Its case is entirely plastic.A sticky label on the back of the case indicated the manufacturing date to be January 2021 (I received my player in September 2021). The unit has no serial number.If you are keen to see the player in action as soon as you receive it, be aware that the remote control requires two AAA batteries, and these are not supplied with the device.Physical set-up is easy. If your television has a HDMI connection (all recent ones do), then connect the player to that (if your television has multiple HDMI connections, refer to your television guide as to which one to use). Otherwise, use the RCA cable; the instruction booklet shows you how.I strongly recommend that you make yourself a mug of tea, sit down comfortably, then take the time and the trouble to first work through the instruction booklet, familiarise yourself (at least to some extent) with the remote control, and to set-up your system. The instruction booklet is far from perfect, and is confusing in places, but it is all you have to get started, and it does provide some useful help. Persistence is a virtue that brings its rewards.During set-up, under "Rating", be aware that the player is initially set to the highest parental control rating (level 1, "Kid Safe"). There are 8 settings, level 8 being "Adult". Unless you are aware of this, you may think that the player is faulty (when it is not) when it fails to play some DVD discs, or some chapters on some DVD discs. (I encountered this upon inserting a CSI: Crime Scene Investigation disc for my initial test before I had read about the parental control. The main menu appeared , but I could not select any of the options.) Set the parental control rating to whatever is appropriate for your needs. It can be "password" protected (a four-digit number).Criticisms made by others may, in some cases, be due to a lack of understanding in the set-up and use of the player.The remote control:The remote control is fairly large with the buttons neatly laid out. This is better than many. A single, firm push of a button works fine. While adequate, a larger device with more space between the buttons would have been better.My biggest niggle is the placing of the rewind and fast-forward buttons immediately beneath the previous chapter and next chapter buttons respectively. On a number of occasions, my finger nail has accidentally pressed the change of chapter buttons when all I wanted to do was to go back or forward a few seconds. There is then the fiddle and delay of getting back to where I wanted to be.It would have made sense to place the mute button beside the volume up and volume down buttons, but you won't find it there.Other:Apart from DVD-video, I have played a few CD-audio discs (music) through the player. I can find no fault with the sound quality that the player outputs. Obviously, I interpret this only as I hear it through my television speakers, but I can detect no distortion; indeed, the music sounds wonderful.When playing a CD-audio, the "ELECTCOM" name and a large QR-code-square are permanently displayed in a fixed position on the screen. If you are going to use the player frequently for CD-audio, then, to alleviate your concern about potential 'burn-in', you will need to turn off the display using your television's controls, because you cannot turn off the display using the player's controls or settings (at least, not that I can find).I have not used the player for any other purpose.The instruction booklet states, under "Features", that this device has "high reliability and stability and super error correction." This does not mean that you will not experience jitters and jumps on occasion. Such occurrences have been few, and can, of course, be a problem with the disc itself, nothing to do with the player (everything is clean and free from dust on my system, and I handle all with care). What I can say is that in all cases so far, rarely by just rewinding and replaying, more often by ejecting the disc then restarting from an appropriate position (chapter selection, for example), I can view those same scenes without the jitters and jumps reappearing. While I feel it harsh to mention this given the few occasions I have experienced it, I feel it fair to consider why such problems arise, and that I have to go to such lengths to review the scenes, in light of the player's "high reliability and stability and super error correction".I hope this has been of use.

Excellent buy.Easy to use.Gets plenty of use.

Within 10 minutes of plugging this in I applied to return it. It was at the post office within an hour of then. It doesn't work other than to make my skin creep with the scratching sound. It actually sounded like it was doing an old fashioned dial up connection weee screeetch chug chug scrrritch.It won't recognise multiple DVD's that do work and the noise it makes is hideous so if it worked you couldn't watch anything on it for the noise. It scritches, screeches and chugs away to itself before returning an error message. Most media appliances are soundless now so this was a horrible surprise. We didn't get to watch a DVD, but if it kept up the way it was when searching for a DVD you couldn't watch one while monitoring a sick child. It'd destroy any immersion and wake the child up or give them nightmares about something digging through the wall after them. Both are possible.This was supposed to be a multi region DVD but what arrived had nothing about using the DVD in the manual, let alone did you need to change between regions to get it to work written anywhere. Not that we were trying a non UK DVD.The buttons on the machine are really primitive and clunky, the tray is really flimsy so I don't think it could used for long before coming off and it takes a lot of pushing of the buttons before it decided to act. Then there's the remote, the buttons are a bit erratic in their workings. Furthermore none of the universal symbols are there, it's text only instead the back, forward, rewind and fast forward symbols people are used to. You should not have to hunt down the main function buttons amongst a lot of (pointless) secondary and tertiary buttons. Who thinks hiding these buttons are a good idea? They've been in the central section with icons for easy access for decades.The set up menu, which is of little help is really poor resolution and the picture constantly shakes on the screen. Finally it'll make you feel old and stupid before your time. A DVD player should immediately offer you your DVD's options to watch, rather than sit there and offer you a horribly shaking screen with terrible resolution which made our eyes hurt. The DVD player it's replacing is a decade old and the picture is much sharper than this, faster, more modern looking and quieter.AVOID.We cannot understand how it got so many 5 star reviews.