RCA RC5215P

playing a CD and messing around with the remote I pressed pause then the forward key it plays CDs at 1/4 1/2 and I think it is 7/8 speed and it will do the same backwards at normal speed or slow. Hey this is great for finding secret messages on CD, like the secret message on the Pink Floyd CD It says "congratulations you have found the secret message".

The RCA RC5215P is terrible. It is my backup DVD player (when the kids want to watch something for the 10th time of the day) and hardly ever got used. One day it decided it was not going to play DVD's. If you turn it on and off 300 times it will play. Too bad it was a decent player.

Worked fine for about a year, then went completely dead. Turned out the problem was a small basket had been set on it (weighing about 1.5 kilos) and worked fine when basket removed. Recently have had several DVDs that have been rented receive error message "incompatible disk"; this is not most disks, but has happened several times. Anyone know why? "Gold" disks such as "Fellowship of the Ring" work fine, as do most regular disk, while others such as "10 Ways to Lose a Guy" and "Basic" get the incompatible disk error.

This was our my parents' first DVD player. When I moved out of the house, I received it as a housewarming present. I have to say, it worked well for the first couple of years.

However, for all of you who say that your RC5215P works fine...just wait. This DVD player played DVDs beautifully until one day when it simply did not work. It had not been misused or moved from its original location, yet there was no digital display, no sound, and no picture. I have searched for troubleshooting tips, but from the looks of these other reviews, I may need to cut my losses and purchase something different. Thank goodness for this website - it is sadly reassuring that I am not the only one who has experienced difficulty with this product.

My unit died completely after 8 months. There have been so many others making the same comment, that this is obviously a design flaw. Of course, the warranty period is only 3 months.

The drive mechanism hums and vibrates so loudly during normal play that it is annoyingly apparent during quiet passages in movies.

Buy from an manufacturer who shows confident in their products by offering a 1-year warranty. The December 2002 Consumer Reports lists several such manufacturers: Sony, Sanyo, Samsung, Denon, Yamaha.

I have had this player for over a year now. It has worked fine on all dvd's I have run, but am having trouble getting VCD's to go. I figure that this was one of the first low cost dvd players on the market, and that's probably why all the troubles, but like I said, mine playys DVD perfectly.

I am glad to hear that I am not the only one to deal with this problem. I have an RCA 36 inch television and it works fine so we thought that we would buy the RCA RC5215P dvd player to go with it, boy were we wrong. I don't even give this thing 2 months before it started to act up with the freezing, and the skipping. We also thought it was our cd's. We tried to rent them and same thing. I am glad to hear that it isn't only us, but I am sorry that we all lost money on this garbage.

I love RCA products but this thing is horrible. My RCA RC5215P DVD player bit the dust. It won't play all my DVD's and when it does it skips...and the discs are clean. It doesn't play CD-R & CD-RW's or Video CDs. After about nine months it began having errors and incompatible disc messages. It also fluctuates from light to dark during normal play, even from the begining. I will try to get my product replaced with a new up-grade, if not I will be contacting people to file a class action suit. After reading so many bad reviews about the same thing.. we must be onto something. The major car companies have recalls, why not electronics companies? I want justice for us idiot consumers. If you have a problem like mine contact me at [email protected]

I have owned my RCA RC5215P DVD player for just over a year (so of course the warranty no longer covers it) and it has bit the dust. It no longer powers on. After unplugging and replugging several times, I finally disconnected the entire unit and noticed an odour - that of burnt out motor parts. From the moment I connected the player after buying it I noticed how hot it would get, but didn't think it was that big of a deal. Apparently it is and now I'm forced to buy a new (NON-RCA) DVD player less than 2 years after purchasing this one. I've owned an RCA VCR since '96 and have never had any problems with it. From what I've read here and elsewhere, it sounds like a recall issue with this model of DVD player. Unfortunately, I don't think RCA cares a lick.

This RCA RC5215P DVD player will make you bitter towards RCA!!! After consistantly melting and freezing after about 45 minutes of play, I'm finally on my way out to buy a new progressive scan player.