JVC XV-S300 DVD Player
Problems with MP3's
I bought this DVD player mainly to play MP3 audio.  It starts to have problems if there are more than about 20 songs on the CD, and the fuller the disk is, the more problems it seems to have -- mainly, VERY frequent skips during playback (every 2 or 3 seconds).<br />I only have this problem with MP3 disks, but they whole point of being able to play MP3 files (to me, anyway) is to be able to put a disk with 100 songs on it and hit &quot;shuffle.&quot;<br />BTW -- to play songs randomly, you have to put them in separate folders (&quot;groups&quot;).  It selects a group at random, plays the songs within that group in alphabetical order, and then selects another group at random, etc.  On some disks, it tended to pick to pick the groups in the same order each time -- i.e. its random number generator isn't so random.  It also takes a fairly long time to select a new group -- 5 or 6 seconds (that's a long pause between songs.)<br />Sometimes I could hear the disk whirling, especially when first inserted.<br />Everything else seemed fine.  If you don't care about the MP3 features, it's a good buy for the money.  Especially if you already have a universal remote, or don't mind using a seperate remote for the TV.<br />Mine's going back to the store tonight, though.