Sony SLV-D350P DVD / VCR Combo

The DVD/VCR I ordered arrived damaged due to poor packaging,and being dropped by the shipper. The front flange of the cover had sprung out of the front frame. I removed the cover, and seeing no other visible damage, I replaced it properly and installed it. Fortunitly everthing worked, so I decided to keep it, as it replaced my previous identical model, which had failed and could not be repaired.
summation:Product Perfect, shipping and packaging:Poor

I wish I had checked here before purchasing. The DVD player failed right out of the box. The same load / read issue as everyone else. It's going back tomorrow! I guess I'm lucky that it failed right away - I'd hate to be stuck with the darn thing.

The DVD door was lying loose in the box. Removed the front of my old DVD/VCR combo (same make and model)and installed it on the one purchased. Purchased this new one as rebuilt, wasn't sure what to expect. The description for it in the listing didn't state that the DVD door was unattached. The DVD & VCR player work fine. If it lasts a year or two, then it was $70 well spent.

This may be the one of the poorest excuses for a DVD/VCR ever. The VHS part is fine, but if you watch a lot of DVD's, stay away. Unless your DVD is perfect, it will skip, degrade to pixels and sometimes just freeze. Supports VERY limited formats, so if you like to burn DVD's to watch from your PC, look elsewhere. This is the third bum DVD player I've had from SONY and I will NEVER, EVER buy another SONY product again.

wow. I have to say I'm extremely surprised to read all of the terrible reviews for this DVD player!

I got this thing a little over 4 years ago. I've used it almost daily for that entire time; even went so far as to bring it on tour a couple of times. I've never had a single problem with reading DVDs or VHS cassettes of any kind. Nothing has ever malfunctioned or broken on it, and the thing still purrs like a kitten.

my only two complaints, for the record, are that sometimes the "auto" clock function won't pick up a time signal through cable as it should, and I'm going to have to buy an up-scaling DVD player to accommodate the new HDTV I just bought.

again, this thing has been awesome to me and I'll be sad to see it go.

cheers!
- Tristan -