COBY DVD598 Super-Slim 5.1-Channel Upconversion DVD Player With HDMI

22% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Fancy features

DVD feature is pretty short lived: bought in June, died in December

Nothing

This is the second one we ordered and it broke in the same manner as the other. It will hang on the load window and not load the DVD. Horrible product and there is some button on the remote that when you push it it skews the picture and sound. Took us...

The batteries for the remote worked

almost nothing else does. usb does not work with any of my flash drives or WD external. regular dvds wont play, burnt ones play but look grainy and are out of sync and randomly locks up, only way to get it unstuck is to unplug it

The HDMI upconverter and ability to play from a Card or USB is really pretty useful - especially when the actual DVD lens reader goes out on you.

After a month of use it literally stopped mid-play from a DVD and decided to no longer read any Discs - not even the lens cleaning disc with tiny brushes. everything else works beautifully, and i've now put to use both the USB and the Card slots, which...

DVD plays AVI's perfectly even at high compression, same goes for USB, from Torrent to USB to TV awesome

Depending on compression and bit rate some AVI files will get lost when you try and skip fwd also the audio can get out of sync with video. wish they did more formats like mp4

Plays DVD-R and DVD+R - plays media from USB thumbdrives and SD cards - I love it!

No con ... would be cool if it played other memory card formats ... but this is a GREAT product for this price.

It does what it claims. It plays many of my old avi files off of CDs I burned years ago. I'm pretty sure they are not all in the same format though (Divx Xvid... etc). The quality of the files are great, just as good as watching on a monitor IMO.

Reading a file from a USB drive takes some time to get it started. I have had a few avi files that wont play but i cant say for sure that it was the players fault, Could've been a bad torrent.

Cheap

Cheap, I was unable to get any of my Ext. Usb drives to work on this device. I tired wiping out the hard drives and still nothing... I finally got it to read a USB thumb drive but the Divx player was very poor and audio was out of sync within a couple...

50 bucks and plays movies thru the USB!

Why would you make a DVD player with a strong magnetic charge on the front?? I'm afraid to plug a flash drive in there or have my DVDs lying on the player. The DVD tray is pretty flimsy.

USB to my external hard drive actually works! Files show the full name not the munged 8.3 name. Able to play files that my philips could not... no more "video gmc not supported" errors. Nice remote with good on-screen functions and information. Very...

USB often required replugging when unit is powered off and on... does not always identify the USB connected hard drive. Replugging the USB connector fixes the issue. Strong magnetic charge near the USB port. Video mode switching could be better.