Senior-Friendly Big Buttons Remote Only for ELECTCOM PRO DVD
Senior-Friendly Big Buttons Remote Only for ELECTCOM PRO DVD Player, Large Print Keys | 9 Key Functionalities | 360° Signal Reception | Light Up Function | Comfortable Grip | Batteries Included
Well impressed with the dvd player just what we needed nice and compact and easy to use the picture quality is brilliant and so is the sound when played through the TV with the attached leads that came in the box with a handy remote control.plug and play and easy to setup with a menu on the remote to make any simple adjustments to screen size to suit your TV.
This is an excellent, quality product at a most reasonable price.
The instruction manual is easy to understand. Set up and running in minutes.
It’s compact size is a bonus.
Very impressive.
I liked the compact size of the item and the fact that setting it up, in this case using HDMI cables was easy and trouble free.
During my first time using it, a brand new dvd straight out of the box and never previously played before, there were two separate incidents when it appeared to have a short and very weak glitch during the film. Although only short in duration both the sound and picture froze and appeared to be out of sync between picture and sound. This only lasted maybe5 seconds with a gap of an hour between the first and second incident. Although the DVD itself was brand new, in all fairness it may have been a little dust on the lazer which may now correct tiself.
Great, compact player. Easy to use and it runs quietly.
It really is so simple to set-up.
I over complicatd things, thinking I needed to do this, that and the other, and I ran into problems.
Great, prompt and friendly customer service when I contacted them. It turned out , all I really needed to do was plug and play. It was that simple.
I’m a happy customer, apart from the OFF light being constantly ON 🙂
I’d not heard of this make, so I was a little wary of making this order, but the description seemed to indicate to me that this would be what I was looking for. Arrived the same day I ordered it(!) and I was not disappointed. It works well on DVDs made from friends’ recordings of my live shows, where other players failed. Simple to set up and use, all wires provided, (but no batteries for the remote – slightly disappointing), but good packaging and after sales information. Some reviewers highlight(!) the large ‘OFF’ light permanently lit, and I know what they mean, but I solved that by propping the remote side-on in front of it. That way I can always find it as well! Overall, a very good compact little player at a good price.
The picture and sound quality is Very Good and it’s very quiet… as my previous Region Free player used to make an annoying humming sound.
It also plays my standard DVDs along with CDs and MP3s so i am very pleased.
The actual unit is quite compact, light weight and is made of plastic… but that has no reflection on the quality.
Very easy to set up… i didn’t need to use the leads that came with it, as i just plugged it into the existing HDMI from my previous player that had recently packed in.
You just basically plug and play… so simple i wish they could make computers this easy to set up?
The remote is very light weight but it works perfectly and has a good range… with my previous player i had to get within 3 feet of it.
My only gripes are as follows:
1. Came without batteries as you need 2 x AAA (but not a problem for me as i salvaged the ones from my previous player.
2. That annoying bright orange light that states OFF why not a subtle little red light?
So not really complaining… and for 40 and Free Delivery what more can i say.
I haven’t tested all the features but have watched a couple of live concert DVDs and was pretty impressed. It does however have its faults, the above mentioned HDMI cable being way too short, also, when the unit is switched off there is a rather large bright orange ‘OFF’ light on the front panel….why? Why not just a tiny red LED like everyone else? The remote is a bit hit and miss, it really needs to be pointed directly at the device. My other device remotes I could stick in my ear and they would still operate whatever button was pressed.
Some folk bemoan the lightness of the remote, to me it’s perfect. My 400+ Marantz SACD player’s remote weighs about 30g heavier and I put that down to using heavier AA batteries as opposed to skinny AAA batteries.
It states you can apply for an extra 3 years warranty by scanning a QR code, well I can’t do that so e-mailed the company to register but never heard anything back.
I’ll update this review as things go….bad or good.
Update 10th June 2023: I finally got through to Electom and successfully activated my 3 year warranty which pleased me no end, that is great peace of mind. I have found that on certain DVDs the colour balance can be way off. I was watching a documentary last night and the tops of giant waves rolling onto a beach appeared to be yellow! I need to fiddle with the colour settings I think.
Also, most annoying was it refused to play a brand new region free DVD (Child 44) that arrived from Amazon the other day. It happily plays the warning not to play in front of an audience 3 times then just reverts back to the Electom logo. Not at all happy with that.
Update 11th June 2023. I’ve discovered this player has no ‘Resume Play’ feature as such. It will resume play but only if the machine is not switched off by which I mean if you stop a disc playing, you can get it to carry on where you left off just so long as you don’t switch the device off in the meantime. This feature has to be selected from the settings menu. My other (older but much more expensive) Marantz device can be switched off for weeks and will carry on playing as soon as it’s switched on just so long as the disc hasn’t been removed.
So with this device, rather than leave it in pause mode while you answer the door/make your supper/visit the loo, you can stop the disc but don’t switch it off if you wish to pick up where you left off.
This review on 9 November 2021 (60 days’ subsequent)
I will start by stating that the model I received is the Electcom ELC-1910 multi-region DVD player (the model’s identification was not displayed on the site when I ordered it).
To date, this player is providing satisfactory service. It plays my DVD’s from North America (where I lived for many years) and from Britain without specific action required on my part. I place the DVD into the drive and the DVD plays regardless of its origin.
The player arrived in a neatly presented and packaged box. The box contained the DVD player (with a mains cable moulded into it, terminated with a three-pin UK plug), one HDMI cable, one three-channel A/V cable (RCA cable), one remote control, and one instruction booklet.
The player is aesthetically pleasing (as any entirely black box can be). Its case is entirely plastic.
A sticky label on the back of the case indicated the manufacturing date to be January 2021 (I received my player in September 2021). The unit has no serial number.
If you are keen to see the player in action as soon as you receive it, be aware that the remote control requires two AAA batteries, and these are not supplied with the device.
Physical set-up is easy. If your television has a HDMI connection (all recent ones do), then connect the player to that (if your television has multiple HDMI connections, refer to your television guide as to which one to use). Otherwise, use the RCA cable; the instruction booklet shows you how.
I strongly recommend that you make yourself a mug of tea, sit down comfortably, then take the time and the trouble to first work through the instruction booklet, familiarise yourself (at least to some extent) with the remote control, and to set-up your system. The instruction booklet is far from perfect, and is confusing in places, but it is all you have to get started, and it does provide some useful help. Persistence is a virtue that brings its rewards.
During set-up, under “Rating”, be aware that the player is initially set to the highest parental control rating (level 1, “Kid Safe”). There are 8 settings, level 8 being “Adult”. Unless you are aware of this, you may think that the player is faulty (when it is not) when it fails to play some DVD discs, or some chapters on some DVD discs. (I encountered this upon inserting a CSI: Crime Scene Investigation disc for my initial test before I had read about the parental control. The main menu appeared , but I could not select any of the options.) Set the parental control rating to whatever is appropriate for your needs. It can be “password” protected (a four-digit number).
Criticisms made by others may, in some cases, be due to a lack of understanding in the set-up and use of the player.
The remote control:
The remote control is fairly large with the buttons neatly laid out. This is better than many. A single, firm push of a button works fine. While adequate, a larger device with more space between the buttons would have been better.
My biggest niggle is the placing of the rewind and fast-forward buttons immediately beneath the previous chapter and next chapter buttons respectively. On a number of occasions, my finger nail has accidentally pressed the change of chapter buttons when all I wanted to do was to go back or forward a few seconds. There is then the fiddle and delay of getting back to where I wanted to be.
It would have made sense to place the mute button beside the volume up and volume down buttons, but you won’t find it there.
Other:
Apart from DVD-video, I have played a few CD-audio discs (music) through the player. I can find no fault with the sound quality that the player outputs. Obviously, I interpret this only as I hear it through my television speakers, but I can detect no distortion; indeed, the music sounds wonderful.
When playing a CD-audio, the “ELECTCOM” name and a large QR-code-square are permanently displayed in a fixed position on the screen. If you are going to use the player frequently for CD-audio, then, to alleviate your concern about potential ‘burn-in’, you will need to turn off the display using your television’s controls, because you cannot turn off the display using the player’s controls or settings (at least, not that I can find).
I have not used the player for any other purpose.
The instruction booklet states, under “Features”, that this device has “high reliability and stability and super error correction.” This does not mean that you will not experience jitters and jumps on occasion. Such occurrences have been few, and can, of course, be a problem with the disc itself, nothing to do with the player (everything is clean and free from dust on my system, and I handle all with care). What I can say is that in all cases so far, rarely by just rewinding and replaying, more often by ejecting the disc then restarting from an appropriate position (chapter selection, for example), I can view those same scenes without the jitters and jumps reappearing. While I feel it harsh to mention this given the few occasions I have experienced it, I feel it fair to consider why such problems arise, and that I have to go to such lengths to review the scenes, in light of the player’s “high reliability and stability and super error correction”.
I hope this has been of use.