Philips DVD621AT DVD Player
Needs to be upgraded after purchase.
Unfortunately, I did my research after buying this item. There really are manufacturing problems. I had a 45-minute online chat w/Philips and said the problems will disappear with an upgrade, even though the machines are brand new. They said that some of the special effects in the newer DVD's are unreadable to this player,(though Philips couldn't be specific about which effects were a problem), not that the 'effects' themselves don't work, the DVD becomes completely unreadable causing the disc to freeze. They assure me that the upgrade should take care of any problems the DVD players have, but could not tell me if the player will need another upgrade sometime in the future.<br />This is only a problem if you have a newer DVD, which is why my other/older DVD's play without a problem.<br /> Someone else mentioned that this player didn't play Disney DVD's, it does. But, instead of putting in a disc and hitting 'close', then 'play', you must put in a disc and hit the #1 on your remote only or it will not play. Of course, the directions don't tell you that, I found it on their website.