Konka KD1800U1 DVD Player
DVD Player Freezes, Won't Read Discs w/o Restarting
I promised myself I'd wait at least a year to post a review of this, in order to make sure that I'd given myself plenty of time to test it out. Well, it's been a year, and I have made a note to myself to never buy a Konka product again. <br />When I put a disc into the player, 90-95% of the time the player pauses for about 20 seconds and then displays \\"Invalid Operation,\\" and I have to turn it off (at the box, because although the remote will turn off the box, it will not let you turn it back on). I must then wait a few seconds and then turn it back on before it will read the disc. <br />I've gotten used to that particular bug, but there's a worse one: if I have the bad timing to change my TV's volume or input selection (I have a ... Panasonic Tau TV set) while the disc is in transition, the image freezes, and the only way to get the disc to work again is by turning off the box as in the example above.<br />The remote is as slow as the most negative reviewers here have indicated. If you are at all used to being able to brush your thumb quickly across a pad of remote buttons to direct your appliance accordingly, you must stop that with the Konka player. Each request you send via remote must be entered discretely, and you must wait (sometimes up to 5 seconds) for it to register before you can press another button on the remote.<br />The only good news is that the image quality and sound reproduction are fine, at least to this non-a/v-expert. But I've had consistent difficulties with the actual player since the first hour I pulled it excitedly out of the box and hooked it up to my TV, to the point that I'm actively looking--after only one year of owning this--for a new, better brand of player.