COBY DVD218 DVD Player
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Manufacturer: Coby
Price at amazon.com: $39.88This item is not stocked or has been discontinued.
- Delivers over 500 horizontal lines of crystal clear video imagery
- Plays DVD / MP3 / CD / CD-R / CD-RW formats
- Compatible with NTSC und PAL formats
- Multiple Subtitles / Viewing Angles
- Compact Midsize Chassis
Product Description:
Movies, music, or digital pictures--all await your enjoyment with Coby's DVD-218. The unit plays your favorite DVDs and a range of popular digital media files, offering MP3 listening convenience alongside compatibility with Kodak Picture CDs and recordable CDs filled with JPEG images. The user's manual even offers tips on creating your own high-quality MP3 files. Top-of-the-line component-video outputs help minimize digital and line-scan artifacts on compatible advanced televisions, while composite- and S-video outputs bring compatibility with nearly any television. A set of left/right analog-audio outputs channel audio to Dolby Pro Logic receivers and stereo televisions. Both Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1-channel surround-sound signals can be routed through the player's digital-audio outputs (one each of RCA coaxial and Toslink optical) for direct connection to a full-featured audio/video receiver. There's no display on the unit itself, but Coby has gone out of its way to ensure that the OSD (onscreen display) is widely usable, and you can set it to not merely English, Spanish, and French, but German and Italian as well. What's in the Box DVD player, remote control, remote batteries, user's manual, stereo analog audio interconnect/composite-video cable.
Description from Manufacturer: Movies, music, or digital pictures--all await your enjoyment with Coby's DVD-218. The unit plays your favorite DVDs and a range of popular digital media files, offering MP3 listening convenience alongside compatibility with Kodak Picture CDs and recordable CDs filled with JPEG images. The user's manual even offers tips on creating your own high-quality MP3 files.Top-of-the-line component-video outputs help minimize digital and line-scan artifacts on compatible advanced televisions, while composite- and S-video outputs bring compatibility with nearly any television. A set of left/right analog-audio outputs channel audio to Dolby Pro Logic receivers and stereo televisions. Both Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1-channel surround-sound signals can be routed through the player's digital-audio outputs (one each of RCA coaxial and Toslink optical) for direct connection to a full-featured audio/video receiver.
There's no display on the unit itself, but Coby has gone out of its way to ensure that the OSD (onscreen display) is widely usable, and you can set it to not merely English, Spanish, and French, but German and Italian as well.
What's in the Box
DVD player, remote control, remote batteries, user's manual, stereo analog audio interconnect/composite-video cable.Average Customer Rating: 
Comment: What do you expect for this price? Rating:
For $40 you can't really go wrong. This thing plays everything - Mp3's, DVD's (all regions after a hack), pictures from your digital camers (dump the jpegs straight onto a CD), Video CD's and even works on European TV's without the need for a transformer or convertor.
Yes, it feels quite light and cheap, yes the remote control is tempramental at best, yes the door refuses to open the odd time, but what do you expect for $40?
Comment: no better than nothing at all Rating:
The dvd player never worked - not from the moment it was unpacked. And it wasn't one thing either - it was a whole bunch. The door wouldn't open to insert a disc. Then it said there was no disc (when there was). Next it got stuck playing and refused to respond to the remote or the buttons on the player itself....final straw, the door won't open to get the dvd back out.
I didn't expect a lot - just a basic player that worked. Apparently that was too much to expect. I never even watched a single movie.
Still going back and forth with Coby to resolve. Will update.
Comment: Don't let the price fool you! Rating:
This is a piece of junk
The owner of Coby should be ashamed. Coby don't know no quality
They make products bad, then sell them for cheap prices.
Then people buy them just because they're cheap, just like me, and the products never work!
I got this DVD player today and it won't even let me insert DVD into it.
How bad is that? You tell me!
I ain't never gonna buy another Coby product in my life
Buy something decent for more money and be happy
Don't ever buy no Coby product cuz they're not worth it
Posted at September 11, 2003 10:48 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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