InteracTV DVD System Compilation In-Pack

Artículo nuevo en excelentes condiciones, en su embalaje y con sus manuales. Lamentablemente no es compatible con todos los dvd's, de 4 equipos solo funcionó en 1. Vendedor confiable.

This is one of those rainy day toys for us. The kids don't play with it every day, but when they do, they love it. We've set it up with about four different DVD players around the house and never have any problems with it working.The kids usually use it with the TV in the bedroom. They sit all the way across the room in bed. I'm surprised it works from there because of the sheets and the angle of the DVD player from where they are, but it does; and when they occasionally have difficulty, they just try and move the sheets out of the way or pick up the InteracTv so that it points more directly to the DVD player.My kids are 5 and 7 now and the 7 year-old still plays with it, even though it`s far too simple for him. We've had it since he was about 4 years old. My daughter was about 2 when she started playing it.The DVD's feature episodes right out of the TV series. You know how Dora asks questions and the kids have to shout the answers back to the TV? Well, now the kids get to answer them! The answers are presented inside shapes on the screen. If the correct answer is in the square, for instance, the children press the Square on their InteracTv unit. They must choose the correct answer to move on. The children may choose to play games only or do the episode or they may skip forward and back. I thought at first the idea of choosing the correct answer by picking the corresponding shape might be a difficult concept for kids; but from watching my kids, the average 3 year-old should have no problem.My 7 year-old recently asked for me to buy more game packs, so I went online to get Spongebob. We own about 4 other game packs and the kids play with all of them. This is a terrific educational toy for preschoolers.

The DVD in the main InteracTV box was defective. I couldn't get the DVD to play for more than a frame here and there in any of the 6 DVD players in the house.I went ahead with the programming even without using the test card. When I inserted another InteracTV DVD I found the remote to work just fine.I did notice something very interesting on the packaging that made me guess that Fisher-Price knew about the quality problem before these items hit the market. The two titles I purchased separately had a small taped-up slit in the plastic packaging and the DVD had obviously been replaced by a factory representative. In addition, the package had a sticker stating the DVD was made in the U.S. covering the printed label stating the DVD was manufactured in Hong Kong. The discs that had been replaced worked just fine, but the disc that shipped with the main remote control unit wasn't replaced and had the made in Hong Kong sticker on it's package.I'm dissapointed that Fisher-Price sold me a known defective item just to make the holiday sale. When I tried to call in for service over Christmas, the office hours didn't allow immediate help. I called back Monday morning but received a recorded message stating that call volume was too high and it instructed me to call back later. There wasn't even an option to hold on the phone the automated system just hung up on me!For the discs that worked, I thought the length of the program was too short for the money. In addition, the "interactive" portion of the program is poorly integrated. It looks like a regular program was chopped up and crudely voiced over by a bunch of kids. I'll try using the item with my son a few more times before writing the toy off.In general, the toy is disappointing due to the defective setup disc and also due to the poor quality of the interactive portion of the programs.

My 2 1/2 year old was more interested in playing with the controller and putting the card in and out and touching the tv screen to give the correct answers. It was so hard to get programmed with our DVD players in our house. Not one of them worked with it. After waiting until Monday (on a Saturday morning) to call Fisher-Price's customer service center (only open M-F 8-5pm), they told me I had to get a new controller which they did send me without having to send back the old one. Since it was right before Christmas, they were nice enough to overnight it to me, too so it would be there on Christmas Morning. Once we got it programmed, my son just did not find it that much fun. I'm hoping as time goes on, he'll gain more interest in it, it seems like it would be educational for him and fun, too. But, for now, he's just not interested.

I think it was put on the shelves way to early. There are so many kinks in the system. we got it on Wednesday. After trying for like 30 minutes to get it to work with our dvd player I had to call cs. They went through it with me about 3 times. You are supposed to enter a code and it will have 3 short and 1 long blink. Well the only one that didn't do this was the one that actually worked...sort of. Ok so it comes with dora, sesamestreet, and spongebob on the same disk. in order to switch from one game to the next we couldn't just switch the card on the hand held part.... we had to oped yhe dvd and then reclose and then speed past the set up instructions EVERY TIME. You can't just push the menu button to get it back to the main screen you had to do all that. Then once we actually got it to play one the differect characters talked forever before asking a question. When you pushed the button to answer you have to hold it for a second for it to register on the screen. Also I know it says for ages 3 and over but some of the questions are pretty advanced or hard to actually pick out the answer based on the pictures. I think a 3 year old (ones that KNOW all their shapes, numbers, colors and letters) might get very frustrated and confused with this. Also I think the cards that you insert are a bit to flimsy. We are going to return ours tomorrow. It seems like other people have had a better experience but ours was bad. Our dvd player is less than a year old so that couldn't have been the problem. Good luck with your decidion