Customer Reviews

GE GE1101P DVD Player

5 star:		(13)
4 star:		(13)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(5)
1 star:		(7)

 

 

In my opinion, this is the *best* of the low-budget Chinese Made DVD Players, offering excellent picture and sound for DVD's. Also plays mp3's flawlessly (although no shuffle feature) and even has the bonus of full karaoke features! Finally it has coaxial AND optical output (rare on a low price DVD Player). You can't go wrong with this DVD Player. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

I've owned this player for a couple of months I haven't run into a DVD,vcd movie or CDR media that this player couldn't play. The MP3 playback works great too.

This player has two sets of stereo AV outputs one S-video output & coaxial,optical digital audio outputs.

Also there's a dimmer button on the remote for the FL display on the player itself. I've never tried the Karaoke function.

This DVD player is made by Shinco

This product does do a lot of things. The reading capability makes it worth the buy, but...
When I was looking to buy a product that was able to read (or play) DVD's, CD's, MP3's, VCD's, CD-R's and (Most importantly to me at the time of purchase) CD-G's (Also known as Karaoke discs). It says, "Karaoke capability with microphone input." But they mean, sing along with the original artist.

Let me be very clear. This unit does NOT play CD-G's.
It will not display the lyric in text on the screen off of a Karaoke disc.

Other than that though, the unit is awesome. It does play all the others that it states. And if I wasn't looking for CD-G ability specifically, with MP3 ability I would not have returned the item.

So far I have not been able to find a machine that can do all that and CD-G's.

I bought this DVD player hoping for a decent, reliable machine that could play DVD's and MP3's. The remote is layed out very poorly, and the on-screen user interface to play MP3's is severly lacking. It had trouble playing MP3's on the last 70 tracks (of 144 tracks) of my MP3 CD's, and the device only uses 6-8 characters to display a title. My pet peave is that the power button is manual only, so I can't turn it on or off with the remote. But otherwise the DVD player seemed to work fine. The picture and sound were decent. HOWEVER, after about 1.5 months of use, it simply stopped working for no apparant reason...What a hassle.

If you're a gambler, don't care about how it plays MP3's, and want a decent priced DVD player, then go for it. Otherwise, I would recommend some other DVD players out there that are more reliable...

What a disapointment! Love the idea of the Karaoke. Ran out and brought Karaoke disc's and microphone only to be totally let down. No graphics on screen. Volume teribble!
Three days after that the DVD player would not work start playing a movie all of a sudden it just paused, now all we get is black & white pictures and constant rolling of the picture. Tried all the instructions from the troubleshooting guide still nothing! of course all this happens after the warranty is up!

Bought this DVD player a couple of days ago, nice features, lots of connections in the back incl. optical connection. There are lots of useful buttons on front including a shuttle dial, and you can change pitch. However, first movie stopped about an hour into it and would not continue to play. Had to turn off machine and back on again to get it to play. Did the same on several other DVD's that I know to be good. Unit runs HOT, smell of "hot electronics/plastic" wafts through air as it plays. There is no power button on remote so you have to press the power button on unit each time, very inconvenient. Remote is laid out rather poorly so navigating through menus can be difficult. MP3 recognition is flaky. In short, I highly recommend going either with RCA or a different brand. GE is bottom of the barrel for Thomson Consumer Electronics, and it shows.

I was really excited that I found the GE1101P at such a great price at Wally World (Wal-Mart). I don't usually buy electronics from a store like that, but I took my chances. The player had all the options that I was looking for, so I purchased one. Took it out of the box and hooked it up only to find out that the shuttle did not open. I boxed it up, hassled with the lovely service people at Wally World and took my chances with another one. Hooked that one up and started watching a movie. Half way through the movie I started hearing a clicking sound that sounded like the DVD was bouncing up and down as it spun. I am thinking about returnng it, but a little gun-shy at buying another DVD player. I guess I should just look at it as I am getting what I paid for it.

I just got this dvd player the other day at a great price. It was one of the cheapest models at the store, but it had to be up there with the more expensive ones. The picture looks like any other dvd player I've ever seen. I don't really care about the karoke feature. I feel that was just added on as a last minute feature. The remote has great controls, but it lacks a power button which got me kind of heated. That is the only thing that keeps it from getting 5 stars. I'm a lazy (...) and I need a power button for when I'm in the bed at night. I hate getting up. (...)Go get this because you will love it.

I bought this as a second DVD player in my house, for the CDRW and MP3 use. The remote is a little different, but very functional, I guess the only complaint I have is the unit cannot be turned on and off with the remote, the power can only be turned on with the hard power switch on the deck. Not really a problem since I plugged it into a switched outlet, on the DTS system. It's hard to beat the player for the price.

I read good reviews about GE1101P and decided to buy one. However, I bought another model, GE5803P, instead. The only difference between the two models is that GE5803P has a 3-disc changer and is slightly smaller in size.

I enjoyed it a lot, especially its MP3 playback. It recogonizes the directory structure on an MP3 disc, displays it on the TV screen, and allows you to jump from directory to directory. I heard the players from some other brands would flatten the structure and force you to wander about hundreds of files. I had a problem with some MP3 files, but figured out how to fix it later. This player plays MPEG1 LAYER III, but not MPEG2 LAYER III. However, it was not a big problem. From my experience, one can easily convert an MPEG2 file to MPEG1 by changing its sample rate. The lack of a shuffle function for MP3 files does not bother me much, because I wouldn't want to hear songs randomly selected from hundreds anyway.

The player is not without any shortcomings, though. It stops half way when it plays some DVDs and I have to power cycle it and jump to the track after the one where it stopped. It is also quite slow in loading. The random play mode seems faulty: it plays only a subset of the tracks and repeats some of them, instead of doing a full permutation.

Overall, I highly recommend it to anyone who is not a perfectionist.