LG HD DVD Player (LGDVB418) (LGDVB418)

by LG

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 6 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00079VJOU
• Item model number: LGDVB418
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #127,385 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: December 31, 2004

Product Description

LG Model: 6711R1N167A for : TV/DVD Player for use with the following models: DV8943NCA DVB418 LDA-511 LDA-531 LGDVB418 LVD2906

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your money on this junk!, February 12, 2006

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Daniel T. Jarmillo "DanyoJ" (Rochester, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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I purchased this player last year and am extremely unhappy with it. The player constantly 'freezes' and when it 'unfreezes', it jumps to an entirely new section of the DVD. LG support is useless. I can see there are websites being offered by helpful(?)hackers writing firmware to fix this problem because they too give up on LG support. Of course there are disclaimers stating if you try to update, it can ruin your LG player. I'm getting to the point I may try it.

17 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Poor investment, December 8, 2005

A Kid's Review

I had to get the unit repaired two times within 60 days of purchase and the DVD player still does not work. Do not buy it.

16 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Poorly designed, flakey and worthless, June 11, 2006

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Steve G (Silicon Valley) - See all my reviews

I purchased this DVD player on recommendation from a salesman. What they failed to tell me is that LG is a new company that doesn't have all the kinks worked out in their product. I brought it home and hooked it up via HDMI. Everything looked great...but then we noticed the audio was out of synch. It was like watching a bad Kung Fu movie that was dubbed...ON EVERY SINGLE DVD. I contacted LG and they had to send me an update CD (couldn't get it online). After running this update CD, it fixed the problem...but now my DVD player thinks that it is in Spain (NOT Region 1) and I can't play ANY Region 1 DVDs...my entire DVD collection is now rendered useless. I called LG and they were absolutely NO HELP. I finally did some online research and downloaded a hack that removed the encoding from the DVD which allows me to play Region 1 DVDs...but it reverts to the Spanish language track on 98% of DVDs. It is very annoying that we have to go to the language menu before playing EVERY SINGLE DVD. And, to make matters worse, the unit now freezes often and has to be unplugged and restarted up to 10 times in order to play a DVD.

This is a piece of junk that was never fully tested. You will waste time just getting it to work. Do yourself a favor and buy a Sony or Panasonic.