Customer Reviews

Oritron DVD-100 DVD Player

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I have owned my oritron dvd100 for approx. 18 months, and overall, I would say it has served me quite well. It has had many problems, but none that rebooting it didn't fix. The only major gripe I have with this product is that it will not play vcds. There is a way to "enable vcd playback" in the menus by hitting a special combination of buttons on the remote [...] but I still have had no luck with it. The other major issue I have is not with my oritron, but with the one my sister bought, it worked for about a month and then stopped, and nothing seems to make it work again, it won't even eject anymore. So all in all, I would have to say be careful with the oritron brand, make sure you can return it if it doesn't work right off the bat.

Don't be tempted by the price ...since within 6 months I had to buy a replacement for it. This DVD player is of very poor quality, even for a low priced unit. It skips and freezes, the picture is poor, the sound is poor, it is difficult to hook up, especially if you also have a VCR hooked up to the same TV, it responds slowly, if at all, to remote commands, it is just plain buggy....and then it just quits. Oritron does not stand behind their product (for obvious reasons) and offered no help (once I reached anyone). A HUGE waste of time, effort, money and stomach lining. ...

I bought this unit as a first time, inexperienced buyer. While it worked well 3-4 times, it stopped working. I have now gone through 5 units in ten months. I bit the bullet and bought the Sony NS300. Only a few bucks more, better picture and sound, and it works. Just my opinion.

Got this player as a gift a year ago. I've had freezing problems with this player, sometimes from slightly scratched rental DVDs (which play fine in any other player), and the whole unit locks up (sometimes with garbage displayed on the LED display). When this happens you need to pull the plug, as the power button both on the remote and on the unit itself becomes nonresponsive. Have also had some problems navigating the menus on some discs ("From Hell" comes to mind.) This player also has problems playing DVD-R discs -- I have had it play RITEKG04 discs fine but sometimes it will freeze or pixellate during playback of DVD-R. Had no luck at all with cheaper Princo or BeAll blanks. Haven't tried DVD+R, it may work better. If you want to use this player as an audio CD player, note that it doesn't play CD-R at all.

Is this a disposable DVD Player? I used it 5 times and the dvd started skipping. The 6th time it was nonfunctional. Maybe this was Oritron's, "one use and throw it away model." Forget the one star this should be zero stars. It should be called Orbit-ron because after a week you will want to throw it into the orbit.

I have used this DVD player maybe 15 times, and now it does not play DVDs. I received this as a gift, so luckily I did not pay for it. This is by far the worst piece of electronic equipment ever.

My review will ditto the rest. This unit completely stopped working after using appoximately 4 times! It is no longer under warranty...a huge waste of money and time. Shame on Oritron for putting out such a terrible product and most importantly for not standing behind it's own product.

I bought the Oritron DVD-100 and it broke a week after the 90 day warranty was up. I tried to find a website for Oritron - there is none. In looking however I came upon a customer survey website... which had many reviews of the Oritron DVD-100 - 99% were negative. Check this site out for yourself before buying. I had difficulty opening the tray from day one, but I was able to pry it open after a while. It continued to give me difficulty. And then literally the week after the warranty was up the audio stopped working. Usually the price is better than Amazon is selling it for so it looks like a good buy, but it isn't. Also, they have now started selling the same product under the brand name Qwestar. I would look out for that as well...Do yourself a favor, wait a little longer, save the extra [money] or whatever it takes to buy a different brand.

This is a total piece of ... . I went to a rent to own store to rent a DVD player. I originally had a Panasonic RV-30 that had broken and since I was just past the warranty they wanted me to pay to have it fixed. So the rent to own place brought this Oritron dvd player. Brand new. I had it about a week and a half. Played alright with some minor skips, then all of a sudden just froze. Wouldn't turn off, wouldn't eject the movie that I had rented. Fortunately I had not bought this junk at a store, so I took it back to the rent to own place. They said "This is what they gave you?" They had to pry the door open with a screwdriver to get the movie out. This is a terrible product. DO NOT BUY THIS THING!!!

if you buy this product then you get Exactly what you deserve...
this is a piece of junk... do NOT buy it... I wish I were as smart as anyone reading these reviews BEFORE buying something... I baught this from wal-mart and we were able to watch about 5 or 6 movies on it... then it entered into it's disfunctional state... couldn't turn off... couldn't read a dvd... called oritron support... they sent me a cd to update the bios... did that... and that caused the unit to become totally unresponsive... can't even eject the bios upgrade cd... shame on oritron for puting out a product like this... I will never purchase another oritron product... I won't even take one as a gift... I'll exchange it unopened no matter what it is... oritron is DONE... I could type for another 30 minutes about how angry I am about this... but I'll just end it with... Consider Yourself Warned...