Customer Reviews

GoVideo DVP855 DVD Player

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Owned it for about 10 months with no problems. Then it stopped working on some DVD's and within a week was refusing to open the disc player and played mosaic pictures. It was not used that much, but only has a 90 day warranty anyways. It was worth ...

This is a good-looking DVD player. The price has gone down a little now, but when I purchased mine, it was much higher. So, it might be worth it now, but I doubt it.
After owning mine for about the first six months, it started doing odd things when playing the discs like the picture would freeze up momentarily, or the disc wouldn't load the first time, it would be difficult to start from a scene further in the movie, etc....
I figured it needed to be cleaned so I bought the recommened cleaning kit for it, cleaned it and cleaned my discs.
Now it has been a year and the problem has gotten so bad with it now that it plays half of the movie and then locks up. When I try to load the disc the second time, it won't even load.
Since it only had a year warranty on it, I guess I'm pretty much out on this one.
I highly recommend not to purchase this product or this brand, especially if you plan on keeping your player around for a while and not feeling like you got the short end of the stick.
I should have spent [money amount] more and purchased a Sony. I'm going back to the store, but I'm not coming home with a GoVideo product. :(

People, do NOT waste your money on this DVD player. It worked decently for about 9 months, then died completely. It fails to recognize any disc whatsoever. Before dying, it was extremely sensitive and very glitchy, plus it would shut itself off if you had it paused for over 3 minutes, and then not remember where the film left off. This is an absolutely TERRIBLE player and I'm sure you can get something more reliable for much cheaper.

I loved this DVD player and all its functions. As others have said however after about 6 months it began skipping, etc. I opened the unit and found that there had been very little care taken while the unit was assembled, and specifically in the area of the ribbin cables. I figured that the skipping, etc. was caused by the units inability to recognize the data, or more accurately, a break in the ribbon cable that connects the main board to the digital reading device. The "eyeball" that reads the data has to move in relation to the medium (disk) while the unit is operating, and that can only be done by either moving the disk back and forth or by moving the reading device. This requires a flexible ribbon cable that can handle the different data, one that has multiple conductors. Now, all wires that are made of a metal, in most cases copper, have only a certain "flex life" if you will. In my case, the ribbon cable had been bent so severly during its installation that after only a few cycles of the player breaks began to occur in one or more of the conductors. This is evident in how the disks are able to be read from the beginning and then start skipping and or resetting at some point in the reading process. This will also occure at approximately the same place on all medium. When the reading device is moving out toward the edge of the disk the cable is stretched into a slightly different configuration, and the angle of the cable is different. If there is a break in one or more of the conductors the data will be interupted when the conductor stops conducting, in essence when the conductor is not touching itself on the other side of the break.
I am looking for a replacement ribbon cable. The cable has the following markings to identify it: KFC AWM 20696, and is rated at 80C, with additional rating of VW-1. If anyone can track down this ribbon or the manufacturer please contact me Robert Wuesthoff [...]. The 20969 should be the identification from the manufacturer which is associated with the abbreviation KFC. My guess is that the ribbon is a 20 conductor cable.

i bought mine reconditioned on ebay for $40 over a year ago and it still works ok. have had a few minor freezing/skipping problems with older rental dvds due to scratches. i am replacing it only because it doesnt like to play region 0 dvd imports. i have used this player all the time and really got my moneys worth. maybe when it was reconditioned the glitches everyones else has had were fixed.

I bought one used and it works great. Better than a new cheap one!

The operations that do work are extremely slow. Not sure if the remote doesn't work or if so much time passes between pressing a button and the action that I've gone on to something else.

Won't read dvd +R discs even though they are the recommended Verbatim brand. GoVideo customer service insisted I had bad discs and even talked me into swapping the discs out at Office Depot despite the fact that I've purchased hundreds of discs and not yet had a "bad disc" yet. After the unit failed to read the new discs, they told me to swap the unit out and that "yes maybe the constant disc skipping during playback had something to do with the problem".

2nd unit even slower, disc drawer sounded like a rusty screen door when closing, machine audibly hick upped while playing a disk and skipped worse than the first unit... oh, and still won't read DVD+R discs on which it supposed to write thus it's name "DVD Burner"... puzzled how this product got off the development line and into stores.

Do not buy this product. It's almost comical, except it cost $300 +!

the quality was good when working. i have purchased two in the last year,dummy me.the first one they had me convinced that i had mishandled it and that was the reason that it was locking up.so dummy me bought a second one and it is doing the same thing!imagine that!i called customer support they will repair it for 69.95plus shipping and handling geez i only paid 70.00dollars for it.stay away from this unit!it is a throw-away unit.with zero customer support,will fix it for what you paid for it.take it from somebody who knows,two units 70.00+ 70.00+25.00dollars for a cleaner.so i guess i'm out 165.00 dollars and still no dvd.i guess you learn from your mistakes and i did.please do not buy.maybe they will get this garbage off the shelves.product has a 30 day warranty , the first one lasted 45days.

I bought this DVD player about a year ago and have found I'm having the same problems as everyone else here: I tried playing a new DVD disc today and it wouldn't recognise the disc (the screen kept saying "Disc Loading"). So, I tried another DVD disc and it played ok. Then I tried a regular store-bought music CD and the player froze-up! I couldn't eject the CD unless I turned off the player, turned it back on and then hit eject before it tried to load the disc again. Now, I can't get any music CDs to play (they all lock-up) and only one DVD in my whole collection will play! I got it for a fairly decent price at the time (including a rebate), but now it's a worthless piece of junk. PLEASE DO NOT BUY THIS DVD PLAYER!!!

I bought this product about a year and a half ago. I only used it about 10 or so times. Then, one day I pop in a brand new legitimate movie. I shut the thing off to get lunch, and I left the disc in there. When I come back (15 minutes later) I turn it back on, and it can't read the disc I left in it. Simply BS. I have another DVD player, high quality Panasonic one, and I tested the disc in there. To no surprise the disc worked. To make a long story short, I recommend staying away from this product, because it is not even proportional to the price. For around 90 bucks I hoped I would get a decent DVD player. But this is absolute garbage. Buy it if you want it to match your silver TV, but it doesn't account for its main purpose.