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With so many folks either recording their own play lists and downloading their music, any player without the capability to play them is obsolete. Title says it all.
Also DO NOT play DVDR's or DVDRWs. I own three of these. The manual states this, but I learned what can happen when this occurs. In spite of all of this, I still love my Pioneer 301s.
Pioneer does not state they will play these and I'm sure that is why. Sound quality isn't as great as I would like, but I can live with it. I'm going to have to take one out of service for this reason. I also learned this from experience.
I have fixed two of them when they stopped loading disks because they both got "jossled" while they were powered on with disks inside. Pixels will often be distorted on the screen after playing DVDRs regarless of what type disk you are playing. They are very fragile and must not be moved with DVDs inside. You can get the device to play most -Rs, but this appears to mess with the device and it stops playing correctly.
Of course, with kids around, it can happen in spite of being careful, as in my case. I had to have one repaired while under warranty, but now I can't find a repair technician within 200 miles of me and had to learn how to take them apart and fix them myself. It is very important that you make sure this doesn't happen.
I TRIED to use/enjoy two of these to no avail.The first failed after four years via main IC board failure,the second after 18 months,same thing.Pioneer was absolutely no help.Now Pioneer has discontinued this product.Over one thousand bucks bucks down the drain.Fool me once,shame on you.Fool me twice,say goodbye to all my future business Pioneer.
This model does it all Have not had any trouble with it at all
Pioneer doesn't list this in its specifications, but the unit does play DVD-Rs and even dual layer DVD+Rs. I've owned this machine for about a year now and have had no problems with it. It might be worth the wait for HDMI output and 1080p upconversion in the next version, but I don't know if/when this will happen and in the meantime my DVDs look great using component output on my HDTV. I've got over 200 of these on my player and it's never balked at playing any of them. You'll read a lot of comments about the limited title entry space, which is true, but I keep may DVD library information on my computer so this is only a slight inconvenience to me. I've read one review where the author ruled this unit out because it would not play DVD-Rs he recorded.
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