Customer Reviews
ZERO STARS! Replaced 3 Times! 
2005-09-23
This DVD player is the pitts! I have replaced it on 3 different occasions and it breaks with in 30-45 days. I will not replace it again. Before it broke it would load S-L-O-W...save youself the hassle pay 50.00 more and avoid the frustration, Unless you prefer frustration then by all means Buy Mintek!
Do NOT waste your money! 2005-04-16
This DVD player is a piece of JUNK!!! Broke after about 5-6 months and my friend's broke even sooner (we bought at the same time in the same store) We were "lured" by the price - $170, but you get what you pay for, right? And no, the kids weren't playing with it in the car. The customer service is.... well there IS NO customer service. The worst company I have ever dealt with. We purchased more expensive unit, by a different manufacturer of course, and it's working great (with the same kids in the car, so I doubt THAT was the problem). I really wish I read the reviews before wasting my money on this ...#$^&^%$#...
Works Well So Far...NOT 
2005-04-11
Update: Broke a few months ago! Well, you all warned me. But it was good while it lasted.
The best thing about this player for us is its ability to play a variety of formats. Practically any video that you can burn on your DVD burner or CD burner can be played on this thing.
Of particular value to us is its ability to play regular DVD data disks with MPEG video files burned onto them. This means that you can grab any .MPG file off the Internet (from sites sharing non-copyrighted material, such as indymedia.org), burn it directly to a DVD (e.g., using Nero) with no time spent transcoding data to regular DVD or VCD format, and play it on this player. We keep it hooked permanently to our TV and use it to view all sorts of content that we download from the Internet. In addition, we have a PC-based Video Recorder that works like a VCR and that generates .MPG files, so we just burn those to DVDs in the manner described above and play them on our regular TV.
Not only does this player read video files burned onto standard ISO DVD+RWs, but it can also read UDF-formatted DVD+RWs. Unfortunately, while UDF can handle files larger than 2GB, and ISO cannot, if you have a very large video file you can put it on a UDF disk but only the first part of the file will play on this player (after which it simply stops playing). But who would have expected it to work with UDF at all?
We have so far not had any quality issues, other than a quirk that it has of freezing up sometimes if you are fast-forwarding (using the remote control) and then go directly to play. The way around this is to always hit pause to exit fast forwarding and then go to play. If we follow this rule, there is never a problem.
Sorry to hear about all of the quality issues and am running with the lid closed to save the LCD now, so thanks for the warnings.
Output to television too dark (0 IRE instead of 7.5 IRE) 2005-03-20
In addition to everything else, it's bad for playing DVDs out to a television. The video that it outputs is too dark. I was puzzled so I tested it on a professional video monitor. Instead of outputting a video signal with the "black level setup" value at 7.5 IRE (the standard for American NTSC televisions), the Mintek is outputting a signal at 0 IRE (the NTSC-Japan and PAL standard). This is not changeable. What a pain. If you were ever thinking of hooking this up to an American television, think again. Yes, I know that some DVD players pretend it's a picture-enhancing feature to allow 0/7.5 IRE switching (some manufacturers call it "black level expansion"), but really that switching is just to allow better compatibility with different TV systems. This model flunks.
What A Piece of Junk 2005-02-12
Got one for my birthday. Broken right out of the box. Returned it to my friend. Took six weeks for a replacement. Opened the box, still broken. Returned it to the Mintek company and that is the last I have seen of it. It has been three months of long distance phone calls to a company that really does not care. KEEP AWAY from a Mintek!!!
Screen died <1 year in 2004-12-10
PRODUCT FEATURES:DVD/MP3/CD/CD-R/CD-RW/Kodak Picture CD;5" 16:9 TFT Widescreen Monitor;Built-in Stereo Speakers;Built-in Anti-shock System;Optical Output;AV Output;High Capacity Rechargeable Lithium Battery;Multi Function Remote Control.
My screen died too! 2004-11-23
We received this as a gift for my 2 and 4 year old children. We loved this item until the screen died! We have had this less than a year, and haven't used it that much. We turned it on one day and had no picture. Iy was very dark, only faint images remain. Steer clear of this brand. After reading similar reviews, it seems this is pretty common with this product.
Not bad for the money 2004-10-23
I bought this player and the only problem is the paint chipping of but picture is graet and sound is great
POOF! Mintek DVD Player BROKEN after only 6 MONTHS 
2004-09-20
Well...count me among the fools who bought this. It worked fine for six months, and then POOF! Broken. My daughter was watching a DVD in the car and suddenly the picture disappeared. The sound still works, but the only picture is a dark, faint, black shadow. Of course, I have tried to call customer support for an entire afternoon and only get an answering machine. How's that for customer satisfaction!? Wouldn't you expect, for $179, that you'd receive a product that lasts more than half a year? My advice: Steer clear of this one.
Would be good... 2004-09-12
This player would be a great deal, it has a good picture, decent sound, no problems except... THE DISCS GET SCRATCHED. After I had it about a month, my discs began to get scratched around the outside. The last scene or two was lost on a few of my DVDs. I had to return the player and buy another. I haven't heard of this happening to anyone else, but i assure you it can happen. If you want to take a risk then it is a good player to buy, but I would go with one of the other players now available for this cost.
