Protron PD-007 Progressive Scan DVD Player

The Protron PD 007 is working as advertised. The selection for surround sound in the manual was not as clear as it should be. Checked manual from other manufacturer to get correct setting.Have found that all features on all disks will not be available on all DVD players like Apex, Cinevision, Coby and Toshiba.Have watched only one movie thus far. Have run parts of other movies to check video quality and sound set up.Runs Home movies copied to DVD-R disk on Toshiba DVD recorder.

While it's true the price is great and the picture is clear, assuming the DVD is one the player "likes." It seems to like about 75% of the DVDs I rent. There seems to be no rhyme nor reason to which DVDs the player will play with no problems and which ones it baulks at.Call me weird, but I'd rather pay more for something that works. My life is complicated enough without having an emo DVD player. I've tried following the extemely limited instructions for troubleshooting in the manual, nothing helped. I searched online for a firmware upgrade, none available.I think the best thing to be searching online for is a new DVD player.

I would write an extremely long review about this player but I am too frustrated with it. If it actualy worked most of the time, It would be an EXCELLENT Player for the price. But, Hightlightable menu items that are on your dvd menu sometimes do not even highlight. ( i shoudl same MOST of teh time) so you cannot even navigate bonus material and 70% of dvd's have a problem accessing "jump to scene" mode. Sometimes the player will glitch up after about an hour into the movie or it will gve the impression of it "loading". Protron customer service is non-exsistant. I wrote to them 3 times! called twice. They got back to me 6 montsh later!! All outsourced to India. How convinent after my warrenty has expired is when they choose to contact me. It was my fault that i accidently deleted the voice mail with thier NEW number. ( has seemed to change alot) Thats ok. I work at sears where i purchased it. I can always exhange. Oh wait, I DID, yeah and that one does the same thing! Look, This player has SO many features for the money (RGB, S-VIdeo, COAX Digital, MP3, HDCD) and plays many, many formats but it was basicly not checked by any form of quality control before It was shipped out. Here's to another waste of money. For people who already purchased this item, dont worry, SOME ( mayeb 20%) arent affected by this and you have a pretty decent player but to those looking to purchase, look elsewhere untill they revise this model. -Chris K. Ps: would have been rated 3 or 4 stars if it WORKED but many people have this same problem so all it gets is a one. -CK

I had this DVD player for about a month when it first started acting up. First DVDs would jump and freeze all over the place...no amount of cleaning would help.Then the sound was the next to go ... the player would produce sound on DVDs at random. It did not matter if the DVDs were new out the package. Save your money...get a real DVD player because this thing is just horrible. My PS2 plays DVDs better than this does and the next thing I'll be doing is tossing it out with the trash.

I purchased 2 of these on sale. Right out of the box it never worked. There was no sound. I was checking online for a way to troubleshoot this problem and happened on this website, which tells me that I should run back to the store to return these. I will do this today