Customer Reviews

CyberHome DVD Player

5 star:		(15)
4 star:		(11)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(10)
1 star:		(34)

 

 

I can't understand the negative reviews here. My Cyberhome player has been a champ from the day I plugged it in. I have one of their previous DVD players also.

Picture quality from Componet cables or S-Video is as good as more expensive models. But when I found out it plays PAL discs from Europe without ANY hacks I was thrilled. A friend recently came back from Prague with a couple of Czech movies encoded in PAL. Her parents Toshiba DVD player spit them out. I found a hack for the cyberhome online, and told her to bring the DVDs over. I was expecting to enter a complicated series of codes from the remote, but decided to put the DVD in first to see what happened. To our delight, the movie came up on the TV screen with no problem! Not only is this little silver wizard region free, it automatically senses PAL and converts it to NTSC on the fly! How can it get any better for 40 bucks?

Oh yeah, I do hate the remote. But that's minor compared to the value I got.

This player is small on price but big on options! When using import dvd's,it will automatically adjust to the NTSC(US & Canada)or PAL(Europe) formats. You can also play region 2 & 3 dvd's by leaving the tray closed (with no disc) & entering: MENU,1,9. A new menu will appear that lets you select any region in the world! VERY COOL option for someone like me who orders from Amazon.co.uk all the time! I will be buying another one to replace my 100.00 lame-o region 1 ONLY Sony player.

I've seen a few positive reviews of the player but like the majority, mine was a real lemon. Out of the box it didn't play some soundtracks and had trouble reading one disk in great shape. I ended up giving it away and getting a slightly more expensive Samsung which has been great. The person whom I gave the Cyberhome to told me that it doesn't even turn on now, which appears to be the usual fate of these. After 9 months of infrequent use it's toast. So the bottom line is to save $10-$20 now do you want a player that will die within a year? I know I don't.

If you're afraid of buying this cheap DVD player because you've never heard of CyberHome, don't worry. There is nothing wrong with the player or the company. The player works fine. It's nice and compact. It even has component video outputs. It plays VCD and SVCD format too. That comes in handy if you have videos on your hard drive, but not a DVD burner. Just burn to CD using the VCD or SVCD format and it will play in the CyberHome player. But, I guess the main feature of this player is the price.

One downside... I've discovered is that there aren't any universal remote controls that work with this device yet. You have to actually use the remote that comes with in the box. If you lose it, a new one costs $10. CyberHome tech support said that the newest Radio Shack universal remote control comes with a code that can control this device. This is a big deal to some people. I would like a universal remote too, but I find that there are always a button or two missing on the universal remotes and I end up needing the factory remote anyway.

Bought this about 3 weeks ago, looking for an interim player until I could afford a better one down the line, figuring it might last a year. Hah! On DVDs that have multiple stories (like a TV series, or the extras for a movie that are divided into segments), "Play All" doesn't play all; it consistently skips about 1/3 - 1/2 of the segments (the 2-hour Behind the Scenes on "Atlantis" finished in 45 minutes!). In addition, it has stuttered and frozen from the very beginning. Save your money.

I was very disappointed with this DVD player. It crapped out almost exactly one year after I bought it. At nine and half months, it was freezing the scenes on my DVDs and I had to unplug the thing and replug it in order to take out my DVD. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone.

Purchased this item from Target, thinking it was a Great Deal, due to item was on Sale for Christmas December 2003. System worked Great for approximately 7 months. Keep in mind, that I only used the product actually 4 times total, in the 7 months.
Unit does not power up anymore, apparently when you shut off the unit, it stays in standby mode, with a red (led) indicator light. Well the light is no longer on, and the unit does not power up at all. Unit is completely dead.
Other electronics on power strip still working fine, so it wasn't a power surge or anything.
Not worth the aggrevation and expense to get the unit checked out or repaired. Save your money,and buy a different brand.

I bought this dvd player about two months ago, thinking I was getting a great bargin. The player had great zooming capabilities, crisp images, even had the remote where you could punch in the number of the chapter you wanted to go to instead of using the fast foward button, and not to mention cheap. I didn't even mind that the package was all taped raggedly or the box a bit dented.

All was great until two weeks after I purchased it. I put in a brand new dvd (not a burned one) and it just kept prompting that the player was loading...for over thirty minutes! So I went to another bedroom in my house and played that same brand new dvd on another player of our and lo and behold the dvd played. Running back to my room, now knowing my dvd isn't defected, I put the dvd back in the Cyberhome player and the results were still the same, it wouldn't play that dvd. I put in other dvds and the same thing kept happening.

I returned it back to Target's to get a refund and the customer service lady wanted to know what was wrong with it and I told her. Her reply to me was, "oh yeah, those players are returned all the time, they just don't work". Well thanks for telling me that now, I thought to my self, then thinking back, it made sense that the box it came in was all beat and worn because all of those players end up being returned and then put back on the shelves to sell yet again, the horror!

I ended up buying another dvd player from a familiar brand name and was disapointed with that too, but that's a story for another time...!

I have two of these DVD players -- the first works well, and allowed me to set the region coding to universal so I can play any DVD. Great. The second one I bought doesn't work at all -- or I should say it works terribly badly. Freezes every second or two -- useless. These would be great DVD players if they worked reliably. They don't. So save yourself some frustration and spend a little more on something that works when you want it to.

If you read ANY online reviews for the CD-DVD320 you'll discover how unreliable it is: errors, freezes, crashes. Ours lasted a year then either generated BAD disc error or froze completely. The User Troubleshooting Guide is ineffective and emails to CyberHome support went unanswered. If PRICE is your driver, go to HomeDepot for the $29 Memorex Progressive Scan DVD Player, Model MVD2042