Pioneer DV-525 DVD Player

Pros: Great Unit for the price, excellent quality
Cons: Might be lacking features for some people.

The Pioneer DVD-525 was and still is a great DVD player. I bought it when the crowd of budget DVD players came flocking into Costco, these $250 units has basic features, however at the time of my purchase, DVD Players have just gotten mainstream and...

Pros: Plays ALL CD-R(W) movies in both VCD (MPEG-1) and SVCD (MPEG-2). Great picture and sound!
Cons: Not progressive scan (but unless you have HDTV, you don't need it anyway!)

This review is mainly going to center around my hunt for a DVD player which can play movies I burn from my computer onto a CD-R or CD-RW (movies burned on CD-R(W) are called "VCD - Video CD" if they are normal quality or "SVCD - Super Video CD" if they...

Pros: Great Unit for the price, excellent quality
Cons: Might be lacking features for some people.

The Pioneer DVD-525 was and still is a great DVD player. I bought it when the crowd of budget DVD players came flocking into Costco, these $250 units has basic features, however at the time of my purchase, DVD Players have just gotten mainstream and...

Pros: Very high Quality
Cons: Skips If there is even the slightest of scratches

I bought this model mainly due to its price. This was my first dvd and i really didnt want one. When i got it home i found that it was extremely simple to setup. The first movie i watched in it was 6th Sense and it was like i have never seen it. Man was...

Pros: Reads .wav and .mp3 disks, Great sound and picture
Cons: older model, not 5 disk changer

I have owned this DVD player since about two weeks after it was released on the market. I haven't ever had any issues with it.

The first feature that I really enjoy is that it is fairly easy to keep clean. It doesn't run "hot" either. My...

Pros: Video/Audio quality, lightweight, inexpensive, plays Audio-CD/CDR/CDRW/VCD/SVCD!
Cons: Unintuitive Remote, Subtitles aren't "pretty"

Contains RCA/composite-out, S-video out, AND Component Video-out.

Video & Audio quality is great, Remote is severely lacking in tactile feel (being able to control without looking at it).

This is our 2nd DVD player. First was 1st...

Pros: Price, picture clarity, ease of use
Cons: remote must be pointed directly at unit, missing manual

The estimated price shows $425, but I got mine on sale for $180, so the price is definitely good for a new DVD player. Mine didn't have a manual in the box, but setup was easy enough and the remote is fairly easy to use. I have long been a fan of...

Pros: Audio and Video performance.
Cons: none

Pioneer has long been the leading force behind laser discs and is now a strong contender in DVD players. The DV-525's picture quality is whistle clean and palpable, in part due to Pioneer's own Twin Wave Laser and Viter-Bi RF Decoding Process that reads...

Pros: Pioneer name, high quality sound and picture
Cons: none that we know of

We bought the Pioneer DV-525 almost a year ago, right around May of last year. I had looked at several others before deciding on this one. There were several things I was considering when buying a DVD player.



1) Price was a big...

Pros: Price
Cons: Quality and Picky about DVDs

We have had this player for over a year. I have mixed feelings about it. The first one shipped to us by Crutchfield was bad out of the box. It had parts loose inside. I don't know whose fault that was, but having it break before it was out of the box...

Pros: great picture, sound
Cons: let me think

I have spend a lot of time listening to and evaluating the latest DVDs on the market. After looking at around 10 Market Leaders from companies like Yamaha, Panasonic, Sony, and the like, I finally settled on this DVD player. I thought the sound and...

Pros: Good quality picture, good price
Cons: complicated remote control

This was my first experience of buying a DVD, and I did it with no product information such as what can be found on this site. As it turned out, I got lucky. This player has a very good picture quality with many options on the remote from view...

Pros: Reliable. Brilliant sound and picture quality
Cons: No bells and whistles. Might be hard to find available.

It took me a good amount of time before I buckled down and bought into the DVD craze. I bought this player as a fully-warranteed, open-box but never used item for $215. At that price, I figured that I could not go wrong.

So far, I have...

Pros: Image Quality, Price, Durability
Cons: none

I bought this awhile ago and am stilled amazed that is has stood the test of time. This is very much a no-frills entry level DVD player, but what is does, it does well. It has all the standard features of most DVD players in it's class and it is still...

Pros: Outputs, DVD movie quality
Cons: Audio CD quality (for me anyway), flimsy tray and general build quality, price -- there seem to be cheaper models of equal quality

I purchased one of these last March for my in-laws and between us (them using it at home, I using it every time I hang out over there) it has been a fine machine, though I must admit, when I purchased my own DVD player this summer, I bought a Toshiba,...