Norcent DP300 DVD Player , Silver
expensive doorstop
Do not buy this product.  I put it on my wish list early in 2003 because of the really high reviews.  I was also very attracted to the dual voltage feature and the fairly reasonable price.  Apparently, Norcent has decided to change the features of the model within the last year.  I recently received it as a gift and was quite dismayed.  It's unbelievable that a product could change so much in just one year.  Read the recent reviews.  VERY SIMPLE quality control could prevent such subpar players being shipped to consumers.  After taking it out of the box, I was slightly disappointed that it was only one voltage.  It was a major selling point for me, but I was willing to live with it.  However, after setting it up, I inserted a DVD and after several minutes of a HORRIBLE grinding sound, the player displayed a \\"no disk\\" message.  I tried several DVD's with the same message.  The DVD's were region free or one and in good condition.  Finally, it \\"started\\" to recognize a DVD.  The first image loaded and paused for a very long second and continued to load pausing frequently.  Finally, the menu finished loading and I selected play.  Nothing happened.  Stopped DVD and went through the whole process again (after several \\"no disk\\" messages).  The movie began playing chopped up with pauses every few seconds with the player continuing to make loud grinding sounds all throughout.  So a very frustrated two hours later, I still had not watched the movie that I should have been finished with and packed up the DVD to return to Amazon.  Don't bother to waste the time that I did.