Coby TF- 7107 Portable DVD Player- Hopefully Impoved?
I've seen other reports where reviewers dislike this device, with good reason! I got several of these over past year, and 2 died (sent back to COBY)One review claims after you send it back to COBY, you never see it again; I'll see. First Player worked okay few months, then with increasing frequency, some problems: picture would disintegrate into mass of random colored pixels, or Freeze, or Stop (same as if you hit stop button) and you'd be at screen saver. Some discs problems occurred in same spot (couldn't make it through Davinci Code, Aviator or Easy Rider) I was beginning to think the DVDs copy protection was causing or Bad DVD? But put SAME DVD in DIFFERENT COBY 7107 and it would play ok! If you tried next day (sometimes) then Player would work! I had to have several COBYs to insure at least one would be working! If one couldn't play disc, I'd stick it in another COBY 7107. Ironically, the next day, the first one MIGHT work again! Strangely, the "good" one died before the intermitant problem one! No matter what kind of Disc you put in, it would say "Wrong Disc" and you could hear motor speeding up, slowing down, speeding up, etc. I ordered more COBY 7107 players to replace dead ones, and for spares, ONLY THIS TIME, BUYING EXTENDED WARRANTY ON EACH ONE! Why keep getting same model? When it works, is nice, actually pretty good, and I'll have all the handy accessories from the dead ones (power supplys, cables, remote, headphones,etc)I can interchange with the new ones! Also, I like it because it DOES NOT have swivel screen, which I don't need and would be just another source of problem/failure. Also, based on other reviews and reports I've seen, MOST or ALL the OTHER portable DVD players & Brands have just as much trouble! On more recently built, newer COBY 7107s I see they have a fancier screensaver, and "V-ZON" imprint on silver cover has INVERTED orientation from earlier built COBYs! I'm hoping the NEW screensaver means they FIXED, IMPROVED, and upgraded internal firmware! --Time will tell!Read full review
