Customer Reviews

Magnavox 20MF251W 20-Inch Widescreen LCD with DVD Player

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I purchased this TV and the DVD player jammed within 30 days. Magnovox refused to give me my money back because it was past the 30-day window; they insisted I pay to mail it back to them. They sent me a second TV and the exact same thing happened 10 days later. Their response? Spend another $50 to mail the second TV back to them. Their customer service line, with which I became intimately familiar, was atrocious. They couldn't have cared less. Never again Magnavox, or Philips, by the way, which owns the company. Never again.

If you're hearing impaired and NEED to be able to view closed captions (CC) during DVD playback, keep looking. Though Magnavox insists this unit can do this, it cannot. It can, of course, play back subtitles if the DVD has them encoded, and it can display CC during television signal playback, but for some reason it cannot show captions (again, CC is a different animal than subtitles) that are encoded on a disc.

If, however, you don't have a hearing disability or do not need the captions during disc playback, it's not a bad set. The picture is good (but not great) during disc playback and the sound is good, with a very feature-laden remote. If it had caption playback ability, though, I'd probably not move it above 3 stars as the viewing angle is pretty direct. Overall, a decent set for a kitchen or dorm room.

I bought this set because of a review by a "professional" on the net at an electronics review source. I now have had the set 6months. It has performed in every way that is promised. I have a small office/guest space & so it is wall-mounted, which was easy to do. The only problem I had was matching the mfg. code to the required one from the sattelite box so I need 2 remotes. One for on/offand volume and the sattelite remote for the rest. Well worth the small price.

Bought one from Target. Try every type of DVDs (retail store bought, region 1, yadda yadda, I'm not stupid), none worked.
After a few minutes of research online, it seems like these units are poorly made (the DVD portion anyway) Returned the next day. Did not bother trying another one, why waste my time and gas money.

I bought this TV to play my Xbox 360 on and for that it's great. The image quality is excellent and the sound is very good too.

However, I recently found out that the DVD player on it has broken! This seems to be a pretty common problem. It doesn't bother me much because I can watch DVDs with my Xbox, but if you don't have a seperate DVD player and you want to watch DVDs, you should probably skip over this TV.