Philips Magnavox DVD611AT DVD Player
Good at some things, very lacking in others.
Shopping for a DVD player, one basically looks for picture, features, good price and reliability. We picked this machine because it was feature-loaded and on sale at Circuit City. We basically crossed our fingers and hoped the picture was good enough and reliability would work out. We found that this machine does have an impressive array of features. Also, if you are looking for great sound, this is a terrific machine in that respect. However, the picture has been a great disappointment. We noticed lines (&quot;wrinkles&quot;) around figures on the screen, a washed out appearance to the screen and none of the 3-dimensional quality that one can find in decent DVD players which also produce a razor-sharp picture, sadly missing from this machine. The movies watched looked like old movies on a rural TV station. At one point in DVD's we have watched, the machine would pause, garble, seem to sputter before getting back on track with reading the DVD--we think this might be due to the layering in DVD's which some machines unfortunately have trouble dealing with. This apparently is one of those. We are disappointed that our attempt to save a few $$ was not successful, but fortunately we have the ability to exchange for another machine from the kind people at Circuit City.