TV-DVD-Combination Reviews

I have the 27" without the DVD player built-in. The picture is great.

One downside of these pure flat screen TV's is that they are H-E-A-V-Y. Make sure you get a heavy-duty TV stand that is rated for it's weight or you may find this weight crashing down on you or a loved one.

Personally, I prefer a separate DVD player so if it goes bad, you don't have to haul this heavy TV into the shop.

Compare to Sony Wega.

This is a really low-budget product.
In addition to the product being dented and partially non-functional on arrival, the manufacture quality appeared just plain cheap. Built-in speakers are smaller than they appear, and have a 60-cycle hum. Disc tray rattles and feels fragile. Remote control not ergonomic in design and not intuitive to use.

On the other hand... it is the cheapest TV-DVD I've seen. It has the typical array of DVD outputs on the back so you can connect to your 5.1 audio system. By the way, this would be a good match with the $55 Durabrand 7-Piece Home Theater Audio System, HT-395 (...)

I purchased this TV for a very good price as a floor model, my complaints are not so much against the product quality - but the companies Customer Support. Since I purchased the floor model I was not given the Instruction Manual or remote control. I have tried every avenue possible to obtain at least the Manual - faxing, calling, emailing from their web page. I have been told twice that these items have been sent out, I don't think that should take 2 weeks. Now when I call Customer Service the phone is either busy, your on hold for 45 mins. when your #1 in que or the office is closed. I found their web page http://www.apexdigitalinc.com/account.asp and am still waiting for them to respond. Because of the companies failure to support their customers, I'm very hesitant to purchase any more of their products.

why anyone would not give this a 5 star is beyond me flat screen dvd manual and remote great full in and out jacks sterio awesum deal have other apex products they work great

I would never puchase another item from this company.I purchasd this item back in October and now the dvd part of thie television is not functioning.The company Apex is not honoring their service agreement. The service center thay gave me the number to no longer sevices their products and they have to tried to resolve this matter.I would never have purchased this item if I would have known that

I bought this tv-dvd combo about a year ago. I like having less clutter so combo devices are for me. The picture quality is good. The remote is easy to use. The dvd tray is a bit suspect. It's loose....which sometimes causes vibrational noises when playing some dvds. I deal with it folding a piece of paper and sticking it in the crack. This usually (Over 95%) takes care of the problem.

It plays DVD-R's along with CDRW's and CDR's and it looks great.
For the price you cannot beat.
I did notice a little curve in the picture at the bottom of the screen but I am very picky and most people would not even notice.
The DVD's look very sharp like it has component hookups internally.
The picture could be a little better watching TV through cable but that could be my line.

I would never puchase another item from this company.I purchasd this item back in October and now the dvd part of thie television is not functioning.The company Apex is not honoring their service agreement. The service center thay gave me the number to no longer sevices their products and they have to tried to resolve this matter.I would never have purchased this item if I would have known that

I bought this tv-dvd combo about a year ago. I like having less clutter so combo devices are for me. The picture quality is good. The remote is easy to use. The dvd tray is a bit suspect. It's loose....which sometimes causes vibrational noises when playing some dvds. I deal with it folding a piece of paper and sticking it in the crack. This usually (Over 95%) takes care of the problem.

It plays DVD-R's along with CDRW's and CDR's and it looks great.
For the price you cannot beat.
I did notice a little curve in the picture at the bottom of the screen but I am very picky and most people would not even notice.
The DVD's look very sharp like it has component hookups internally.
The picture could be a little better watching TV through cable but that could be my line.

Television works well, as well as the vcr. The Dvd player broke
within weeks of purchase. Fortunately the set has inputs for a new dvd player which I had to buy separately. Overall I like the set, though it is frustrating that one of it's major features was worthless--a risk you take when you buy any combo tv.

Great picture all functions. Did have problem with VCR when first used (Ate tape). Could have been due to excessive moisture. OK after one day idle. Biggest problem is practically illegable print identifying control buttons on remote. In most cases have to turn lite on to read functions due to poor contrast between case color & print.

My sister got hers last week and when we set it up I couldn't believe how easy it was. Mine came today and it's set to go! Couldn't be better.

Less than a year after purchase the DVD eject mechanism
broke, making the DVD player unusable. Also, after 90 days
the warranty doesn't cover labor charges. Not recommended.

To me, picture and audio quality are expected commodities on new standard televisions. It is only the remote that makes the difference. The Toshiba MD14FN1 remote is as difficult to operate as the Japanese language is to read.

1) TV functions are secondary and written in an indecipherable watery-orange ink. Difficult! 2) Essential TV functions are crammed together. A total of 27 buttons reside on an area less than 2 x 2 inches. The mute key is lost 4 down and 4 over, while an arcane "input/select" is directly under the large power button. Difficult! 3) The Numeric keypad is an after-thought, located 2 down under a quizzically prominent information key. Further, once you find the pad there is no raised #5-key to center your fingers within the 1 x 1 allotted inches. Difficult! 4) AAA batteries? This is the only product in my house that requires them. Difficult!

If you can't use the remote why buy the product?

I received this tv this week from Amazon, and was very impressed with its performance, both video picture and DVD.
I purchased this because it takes DVD/R which is difficult to find. All the reviews and press releases mentions this. The directions do not. I tried a DVD/R immediately upon arrival and it played very well.
The directions make noreference of hooking the set up the a satellite dish. It would have been helpful

The TV arrived damaged with two big dents on the front and sides.I was told that TV's 27" or bigger are non refundable,if they arrive in a damaged state,that the only alternatives were to either re-sell it as damaged goods or take it back.I took it back,plugged it in,and there is a huge black square in the middle of the screen.
I would not recommend anyone to buy a TV on Amazon that is 27" or larger!!

I read the reviews on this TV/Combo before I purchased it. I am sorry to say perhaps I have received a bad one. Not even a month after I purchased this - I am having problems with the DVD getting "stuck". We are very careful with our electronics and there is no reason why this unit should be doing this. Right now - the DVD is open and will not close - this is probably the 4th time it has done this. I purchased a much cheaper Panaconic combo for my mother a year ago and it has had absolutely no problems at all. I wished I would have saved myself about $200 and purchased a Panasonic for my home as well.

This is a larger version of the 24 inch, which I bought for a vacation home. Both are truly plug and play if you have cable. I was sceptical about a 3-in-1 device, but no longer-the simplicity is welcome. Very good set for someone who is not a techie nor a home theatre type but wants good quality and simplicity of operation. Sound is better than the 24 inch, althoght I would not play string quartets on it.

This DVD player worked for about 20 hours, then stopped playing DVDs. It had a 3 month warranty. There is no repair site in the instruction book. We won't purchase any electronics with an Eddie Bauer name on it.

We purchased this a little over a year ago. It works fine, but the cable that connects the two monitors together is very difficult to plug in to the monitors, which results in the cable being damaged easily. I have gone to the Target store to replace the cable. There, I was told to go to the Audivox web site. The Audivox web site does NOT recognize this as one of its products, so now, I can't find the cable to replace it. I have one monitor now that works, and the other can't be connected to it. Regular audio/video hook-up would have been much better than some foreign cable that cannot be purchased, even from the manufacturer.

We bought this DVD player and the additional screen for our road trip to FL which lasted 14 hours one way. We have two kids, ages 8 and 12 and they did not fight the entire trip! The only problem was they ran out of movies to watch, which was easily fixed since we went to Disney World. I would highly recommend purchasing a DVD player for any road trip. We had no problems with the DVD player at all. There was a slight problem with the actual DVDs since the picked up lint from the case, but the kids just cleaned them first. The nice thing about this DVD player is that the case, which is very nice, is included as well as the cords to attach it to the back of the car seats.

The other reviewer's complaint is all about his defective remote, and says nothing about the television/dvd/vcr. Our remote works fine,although I think they could have placed the channel and volume buttons in a better spot. Also, the buttons are almost all the same size and in near perfect rows and columns, which makes you need to look closely to see what you're pressing. Some remotes make the volume/channel changers in a diamond shape and larger than the other buttons and this is what they should have done here. A poor remote makes surfing, or watching two shows at once, a pain in the rear. This TV doesn't have a 'last channel' button, so you can flip back and forth between two channels.

The tv picture is fine, clear, no waviness. So far the DVD and VCR work well and the sound is good. I haven't purchased any other combo's before, so I can't compare. Still, I'm a person that tends to return things at the drop of a hat if I'm not wholly satisfied, and I'm returning this due to the pain in the rear remote and lack of 'last channel' feature, which I tend to use often.

This combo unit offers plenty of features for the price. I found it discounted for under $200. So far all is working well. It's a great space saver in a place like the bedroom and there is no clutter of cables and power cords because the unit is integrated. Sound and picture quality are good.

One nice feature is the DVD player's ability to read JPEG files allowing you to use the unit for slide shows of your favorite digital pictures.

I have been very satisified with this product. Mine was a refurbished unit. The picture is clear and the VCR and DVD work great. The remote is not perfect, but you can get used to it after awhile. My original remote arrived broken. I contacted Magnavox and they shipped another one overnight delivery. They didn't even make me return the broken remote. Customer service was excellent. If you're looking for a good, well priced TV/VCR/DVD combo, I would recomend this one.

i bought one of these from cosco for $...and loved the overall set. however, whenever we played a dvd, we had to turn the volume up to its highest level in order to get normal sound. we called panasonic and they finally said it was a defective set and to return it,etc. the pasasonic people were less than friendly and could have cared less about the problem. we went to circut city and looked at the same set. guess what? the same problem with the sound when playing a dvd. the bottomline is that panasonic is no longer welcome in our house and we'll never buy anything from them again. they don't care about the customer or care about making anything right.

I bought this tv to stand alone in the bedroom. It is not hooked up to an amplifier. There is a problem with the DVD sound - you have to turn the volume WAY up when watching a DVD.
In addition, you can hear the DVD humming when it is playing.
The TV picture tube has been replaced once and is now on the fritz again. It will suddenly go black (no signal) or just loose the signal and play "snow" or just come and and out of focus. Debugging this one is tough. I do not recommand it as a TV or DVD player.

loses brightness after a few hours, then too dark to see on screen adjust tools-- then resets every time you turn it off-remote control is ridiculous--the secret service guy carrying the "football" with the president has less steps to program a nuclear strike than a panasonic user to brighten his tv