Customer Reviews

RCA DRC232N ClearPlay-Enabled Parental-Control DVD Player , Black

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I am so excited to see this product on the market. This is technology that I've wished existed for years. It is great to now be able to sit down and watch movies without all the garbage the directors insist on including in movies. I can now safely even watch a lot of PG titles with my kids. The movies are cleaned up even a little better than the tame airline versions. I was surprised at how many titles they have already released filters for, including many titles that I already own. They even already have filters for all 5 Star Wars movies. There's even a filter for the all time greatest movie ever - The Princess Bride - which skips over the bad word near the end. With filters available for over 850 titles, and more continually added, I have a huge selection to choose from when I go the video rental store.

ClearPlay has done a great job of maintaining the continuity of the movies they filter. Where they can, they skip over the inappropriate language. When that would be too choppy they simply mute the sound briefly for ears that would be offended.

I was even more impressed with the unit after plugging it in an looking at the menu options. You can require a password to view movies above any rating you want to pick, and can select which filters individually that you want the player to use. The parental controls are terrific and versatile.

If you want to keep getting the latest movie filters you'll have to subscribe to their service for a small fee. Then you can download all the filters they have to your computer. You just need to burn the filter file to a CD. For a couple of bucks they'll mail you a CD if you don't have a CD burner. Just put the CD in your RCS ClearPlay DVD player and select the filter(s) you want to use.

The DVD player is shipped with filters for 100 movie titles. It will hold up to 300 of the 850+ titles at a time.

When you put in a DVD it will check for the filter for that title automatically.

The player recognizes so many CD and DVD formats, and also has progressive scan, S-video, and surround sound outputs if you have a home theater set up. If not, simply use the standard audio/video cable that comes with the unit.

I am so happy that my old CyberHome DVD player broke. I don't plan to ever purchase another DVD player without ClearPlay.

This cool machine definitely rates 5 stars out of 5. And I'd give it a 6th one if I could. This is the best thing since TiVo (which is also a must have!)

There's alot of talk these days about the new DL recorders, but no one is talking much about compatibility issues with the regular DVD players connected to our TV's. I got a first hand initiation a couple weeks ago with several stand alone players including the RCA DRC232N.

I've read all the media discussion about how the Dual Layer recorder manufacturer's have gone out of their way to make them compatible with set top units, but let me tell you, it's still touch and go. I had an opportunity to try several set top units, but most of them had a problem, including a Sony unit I recently purchased. Not so with this RCA unit.

Here's the models that I tried that would not work:

Norcent DP313

Sanyo DWM400

Sony DVP-NS575

Symphonic SD200E

And the model that worked perfectly with two different DL disk I had burned -- the RCA DRC232N.

Hope this helps some of you guys out there find a great unit that is compatible with your Dual Layer DVD's.

I've owned this dvd player for two months now, and can confidently say I'm satisfied.

Favorite features - The dvd player remembers previous disks, and it replays them from wherever you left off. This happens even with disks that have been removed and replaced in the tray.

I don't use the clearplay feature, although it seems a good idea.

The remote is somewhat clumsy. The dvd buttons I use most - pause, stop, fast forward, etc. - are located in the bottom right corner. Using the remote becomes a two-handed operation. I balance the remote with the left hand, mash the button with the right thumb. It doesn't help any that the remote bulges along its back spine to accomodate the batteries. A flat remote and better button placement would have helped.

I purchased the RCA DRC232N to replace the RCA DVD player I had, which was several years old. I was very pleased with the feature set on this unit. The picture, using an S-video link directly to the television, is great! The interface seems more like a computer GUI than on my old system, and I was suprised when it went into screen-saver mode. There were two minor "faults" I have with the system: 1) it's so thin, the blue LED screen is hard to see unless you're right up on the unit- orange probably would have been a little easier to read from a few feet away, and 2) I have to agree with a prior review that the remote is horrible. I ended up keeping the remote from the original DVD player since it was easy to read and use and worked fine with the new player. However, for the price I paid, $69.95, I can't complain too much considering the features found on this unit. If the remote becomes too much of an inconvience, it's not hard to find a nice RCA replacement remote at Target!

Okay, I got this to play DVD+R discs I'm burning from a DVD recorder. It plays them fine. My biggest complaint - and it's a deal-breaker for me, is the remote control is so poorly designed. It doesn't fit my hand at all & the button layout is awful. Do they ever actually test these products with human beings before they turn them loose for production?