Customer Reviews

GE GE1106P DVD Player

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

 

 

I bought this DVD player thinking "Wow. Brand name player at a really good price." Then I got home and used it. Some DVD's played with no problem. But it was more likely that I would see 1 second freezes in the video (not the audio) and sometimes you would get horribly distorted images. Definitely would recommend not buying until GE can get their act together and test their products before selling them.

This Player may not be the best one around, but at ~130 USD it gives more than you pay for. It wraps up pretty much every standard feature you get on DVD players. The only glitch: video playback will freeze (seldom) the image for less than a second. I noticed the glitch after almost two hours of playback, and it's not a big deal. In fact, you'll feel like in you're at a movie theater and they switched reels, only without the warning spots... =)

So, good price, good product... I'd buy it if you're a movie fan and like to spend not-too-much on hobbies...

I bought my G.E. DVD player about a year ago and I really didn't use it very much most of my movies are still VHS, so I'm really discouraged from by any more G.E. products with what I have read and from what is happening with mine. At first it would take in the disc and every once in a while-while it was loading it would lock up. Then it started freezing a ways into the movie, and I had to power it down and it wouldn't run any more until it cooled off some, so I let it sit when every it did this very annoying though. Now it is taking in the disc says it is loading and never does you can hear the little motor working, eventually it stops and tells me there is no disc. I figured since it isn't working for me anyway I'd remove the cover and see what it was doing and I loaded a disc and watched it. You can see the motor is working, but it isn't turning the disc you can kind of jump start it by carefully turning the disc while it is in place and it will play the movie, but only for about 5 minutes and then it just says disc and no picture. I wouldn't recommend this product to anyone as many people that have had the same or similar problems with this you would think that G.E. would be concered about what was going on and how they could improve it. I gave it three stars, because it was working okay for a little bit, but guys I don't consider this a use a few times and throw away product. I just expected more from G.E. than I should of I guess. Hope my information helps someone. If anything show some people they aren't alone.

I have had this player for about two weeks now - I am extremely disappointed with the performance. The first night that we used the player, about two hours into play I experienced numerous frame freezes, which interrupted not only my video, but also the audio. I thought it might be the DVD until I tried a second DVD and had the same problem. I truly expected more from General Electric in quality and performance. I would not recommend the purchase of this player to anyone.

Yes, it does glitch a little.

Yes, the price is right.

No, it won't last forever. I just got The Godfather DVD Collection, and after 1 hour play on EACH disc, the player froze. Strange, since the discs work just fine in my iBook.

The problem is that now I can't watch any of my movies, it glitches more than it used to, and on most of my discs it freezes.

I guess I'll have to spend a little more, but get a first quality SONY or Panasonic Player.... maybe a PIONEER.

I liked the price of this DVD wheN I bought it. I paid more than what it is now. I do notice that about after watching 2 hours of movies there is a bit of a glitch in the video, not audio though. That is the only thing that I noticed to be the probelm with the DVD player it self, otherwise its a good player.

This DVD Player is a piece of junk. The only reason I gave it 2 stars was because I can get about two hours of good viewing time PER DAY before the thing overheats and skips and freezes to the point where it spits out the disk and says that it cannot read it. This is a very poorly designed machine. There are NO airvents anywhere on the machine. No heat can escape, which leads to overheating, which causes it to skip like crazy. I used to be very fond of GE. Now I'm not so sure. Reading over the reviews has assured me that this is not an isolated incident. DO NOT BUY THIS MACHINE!

I got this player as a Christmas gift and it was running fine on some of my movies but it would freeze on others. Finally, it quit after running Monsters Inc. Now none of my movies play and getting decent customer service form Thomson is a joke. I still don't have the answers I need and all they want is a credit card # for a replacement with no guarantees of this not happening again. Do yourself a favor and don't bother with this player.

Got this player as a replacement for my 1105P which was sent back to GE under an "service request" for a firmware upgrade. Basically it is the same as the 1105P - and has the same problems. The unit overheats and then dies. The first one I received from GE lasted all but 24 hours before it no longer read any known good dvds. I shipped the defective unit back, and got another in return. Being a electronics technician by trade, I decided to see why this unit [goes] out so fast?

I found out that the main processor runs very very hot - caused by a poor circuit design. Combine this with poor air circulation in the case design and you get instant failure. I installed a...1 inch square heat sink on the processor and ran the unit without a cover. 1 month later it is still ticking - no freezes, no skipping - no "unable to read this dvd" messages. Even with the heat sink, the processor is very warm, but not like it was before. If you were to re-install the cover - the unit would probably hang up, so I would suggest a cpu fan with heat sink to cure the trouble. I have mentioned this to GE, which most definitely fell on deaf ears...

Keeping this modification in mind, this is not such a bad DVD player. The quality of the picture from the player is actually quite good, and the digital audio optical output is actually not too shabby. The menu is quite easy to navigate through. The remote is programmable which is nice.

I do wish GE would smarten up and do a real re-design on this model - adding a small heatsink and adding proper ventilation does wonders and would cost them so little.

If you get this model be prepared to do a small modification in order to get a usable product.

I've had my GE1106P for 9 months at which time it completely stopped working. The full warranty is only 90 days so to replace the machine (only parts are under warranty at this time) it will cost $90 which is almost 65% of a new machine. ....