JVC XVM565BK 3-Disc DVD Player
Basic, functional but unreliable
I have owned this player for several years and it has been a struggle. It sounds good and all, but the player hangs up quite often and freezes for no apparent reason. It seems to get confused easily if you go a little bit too fast with commands. If there is a scratch or other flaw in the DVD/CD this unit cannot overcome it (a cheap Sanyo I have does this much better). The inability to play the new formats is a very limiting factor. A friend of mine has a different model single-disc JVC DVD player it does the same thing quite often. It seems it might be a problem with the JVC logic circuitry or something else deep and fundamental.  <br />I have had a JVC single-disc CD player for 20 years now and it is a work horse. It reads a disc slower than modern machines but I have never had a single moments trouble out of it; it has taken minor abuse VERY well (5-6 moves and setups). It will be hard to give up one day. But the JVC DVD/CD player is just not of that quality. And it is disappointing because I was expecting so much more from JVC.