Customer Reviews

Coby DVD-637 5.1 Channel DVD Player with Progressive Scan & Karaoke Mic

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We thought this would be a great idea for our 7-year-old girl who loves to sing. It would be a great idea if it worked. The disks play fine but no matter what we did, you could barely hear voices throught the mic and what we did hear was delayed, like an echo. The remote was difficult to navigate, very poorly made.

We have searched high and low for a karaoke player that works. We thought this was the answer, but the search continues.

We are sending this one back! At least Amazon makes it easy to return!

I purchased this mainly to have a karaoke system that would connect to my existing entertainment system. I was extremely disappointed in the performance of this item. The main reason for my dissatisfaction is the sound of the microphone. There is way too much "echo" on the voice & no way to adjust it. I will end up using this as a DVD player in my camper since it's size makes it very portable. Don't waste your money on this. Purchase another machine if your looking for a cheap karaoke console.

I only give it 3 stars because the machine works all right but there are a few things that I don't like:
(+) Price is right
(+) Works OK as a DVD Player
(+) Karaoke works fine (need to turn the TV volume up to hear your voice well)
(+) Comes with a microphone which is about $10 value
(-) Doesn't play all DVDs (machine is too sensitive to read old or slightly scratched discs)
(-) Doesn't play DVD subtitles that can be switched off right
(-) Takes a little longer to load some DVDs
(-) Makes noise when reading a disc
(-) The remote control isn't user friendly
I use the machine mainly as a Karaoke machine and to play VCDs. In general, it's fine for the price.

Despite the bad reviews, I figured that it would at least function so I ordered it only because I could not get anything else before my party. That was a mistake. It couldn't even read most of the CDs and DVD's I tried.

This system is the most unfriendly system that I ever operated. The unit has no controls except eject, play and stop. The track button and skip feature are on the remote only. The remote has a 1 second delay when a button is pressed causing you to take 5 minutes to get to a track and repeatedly miss the track that you want. On the remote, the skip and advance buttons are the same and we had a very difficult time with advancing to the next track since the unit wanted to keep skipping through the songs instead. We also had a problem with the unit skipping involuntarily through the CD's we were using but when we played the CD's on another unit, they worked fine. Very Very disappointed in this item !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1 Star !!

Oddly enough, I did not purchase this item from Amazon. I selected it as a free gift for a 15-year service award at work. It's not even worth the time it took to ship. I could tell as soon as I pulled it from the box that it was poorly made but the first thing that went wrong is the power button broke so I had to rely soley on the remote to turn it on. Then, the disk tray malfunctioned and refused to stay open long enough for me to even insert a disk. I noticed Amazon has it listed as "not currently available". Smart move on their part. Good riddance!

I ordered the Coby DVD player just to be able to sing karaoke with the kids. It's a great DVD player and the Karaoke sounds like a professional system. The microphone handles sound very well. I was very pleased with this item and would recommend it to anyone looking to sing Karaoke and not wanting to get a big system.

Purchased this a few months back (for apx. $50) with the sole purpose of playing DVDs purchased from Greece. First machine had to be returned because it wouldn't read the discs. Amazon quickly shipped out a second machine. It worked, was able to view the movies -- but, only for a short time. Machine froze, one of my discs is still being held hostage inside this garbage machine.

In the meantime, my father also bought one of these players -- same deal, it broke. Don't even waste your time.