This product is embarrasing! I bought a brand new one for my dad for his birthday because his old, crappy, Polaroid version stopped working. I plugged this in, hooked it up and turned it on. I opened up the dvd player, put a dvd in, and it played fine. Just ot test it out, I turned it off about 2 minutes into it playing, then turned it back on. The dvd part of this POS didn't work at all!!!! The VCR part of it worked fine, then when I switched to dvd these was NOTHING on the screen. I couldn't even eject the dvd from the unit OR from the remote control. I turned it off and on back on about 5 times and finally got it working. I got the dvd out, put another in (just in case it was the dvd) and tried it out again. It didn't work. I turned it on and off about 5 more times to get out the dvd out and packed it up.Before you buy a dvd player, do some research!!! You usually get what you pay for.This will not work right out of the box. STAY AWAY!!!