Daewoo players
 

Anybody experiencing problems with any of the discs and their Daewoo players. I'm just curious since I'm getting mine next week and have a Daewoo player (purchased in 2001) which plays pretty much everything I throw at it (except for Star Wars Ep II whihc skips for 1 second on the opening scroll...firmware problem)...

Just asking since I'm hearing about a lot of glitches and am slightly worried.

I watched "A New Hope" on my Daewoo player (2002). It froze up on what seemed like a pretty long layer change somewhere about an hour into it. I pressed rewind, then play, and it played right through it normally. Maybe it was just a speck of dust on my disk?

FYI: My Daewoo doesn't play DVD-Rs all that well, but everything else.

Friends don't let friends buy Korean electronics. ;)

They do if you want an excellent region free player!

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my Daewoo has problems with ESB,..sync seems off in places and can't get the comentary subtitles off :(

To get the commentary subtitles off, just hit the menu button and "turn subtitles off", then "resume film". They'll be off.

Cheap Korean electronics = a low price + many great features that stop working soon after the warranty expires + the worst English-translation Instruction Manuals in the world

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= a great region free player which you can use to view to watch Family Guy, Futurama, ECW PPV DVDs, Shaun of the Dead, Buffy, and more long before they were released in the States.

In my experience the cheaper players are the best ones. I owned a swanky Toshiba and a decent Samsung when they both went kaput after a year. I've had my Daewoo 5700 for 2 years without any hitches playing hundreds of discs on it without a hitch. Not once has it been to the repair shop and it looks like its gonna be with me for some time yet. I don't have any complaints about it.

In this case cheap price = reliability and dependability.

Its not a spectacular machine by any stretch as it doesn't have the chocolate and caramel spazmo features that other 'high end' players have but it gets the job done and does everything I expect it to do (play any disc I chuck into it).

Korean or not it was money well spent.