Magnavox 13MDTD20 13-Inch TV-DVD Combo
Piss-poor DVD playback - unable to play discs after 4 weeks
This TV-DVD combo does not play DVD discs at all. We received it as a Christmas present and have been extremely disappointed with its performance as it only seems to be getting worse. Unfortunately this may be a problem with Magnavox, as a friend's earlier Magnavox DVD system had similar problems - &quot;sticking&quot; and &quot;freezing&quot; during playback. We have had a second DVD player for over a year, made by a different manufacturer (we won't mention any names, but it starts with an &quot;T&quot; and ends with &quot;oshiba&quot;) and have had absolutely no problems with it - so it's not our discs.<br />We even visited the site and tried out Magnavox's &quot;product troubleshooting list&quot; for the item - (e.g. is the disc a DVD-R, is it a Disney movie, did we place it in the tray correctly). None of it helped, nor did a &quot;disc cleaner&quot; or cleaning discs with a soft cloth.<br />The system first began to act erratically approximately three weeks after we received it, when we found that it sometimes did not play discs all the way through, without &quot;sticking&quot; about 45-60 minutes into play. Then, it began to provide &quot;Disc Errors&quot; when playing some, but not all discs. Usually the problem subsided if we turned off the machine, reinserted the disc (making sure it was clean of any dust), and then attempted to play again. <br />Currently however, it will not play ANY discs, only four months after we received this as a gift. We have tried consecutively, five different CDs of different types - none of them MP3 CDs, none of them DVD-Rs or special Disney movies. All of them simply zip around and around in the DVD, with the final result being a &quot;Disc Error&quot;, suggesting that the disc may not work in playback. Of course, all of these discs work fine in our other DVD player.