COBY TVDVD1350 13" TV with DVD Player
By: Coby Average Rating: 2.5 Total Reviews: 3
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 On: 2007-03-17
Build quality is horrific, remote is undecipherable, but by golly, I like this TV!
It is rather large for a 13" TV, both height and depth. Looking at the bulbous tube and hokey buttons on the front, the juvenile-looking menus with so-so translations, it smacks of "cheap import".
But I must say, after adjusting the color, manually degaussing it and playing some of my PAL and region 2 disks, I fell in love.
Again, build quality is horrific, but a few key strokes and it is region free, can play PAL DVDs--something I could never do with my $300 Toshiba MD9DP1. And the screen is much bigger than the Toshibas diminutive 9".
So, what can I say?
Function over form? In this case, definitely so. Deserves a three star instead of just one. I just hope it lasts more than the three months that it supposedly lasted for others...
PS The TV arrived with loose parts rattling around inside, a gouge on the case and badly damaged styrofoam on the inside of the box. Maybe had been thrown across the room before shipping. Amazingly it still works, maybe thats a good sign???
 On: 2007-01-05
This tv only worked for three weeks. Then, for no apparant reason, it suddenly would not turn on. I sent it back to Coby for servicing and they sent it back still broken and with a new crack on it. No one should by from Coby!
 On: 2007-01-03
Im not sure whether I like the fact that once you turn it on, you can never turn it off -- only put it on stand-by (with a bright red light incicating such).
Otherwise, its a decent little TV for the price (we bought it for our travel trailer, and its a perfect fit).
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