Hi , many people are saying , " you get what you pay for , i guess . " Well that is not true . You could have paid more and got a lot less . I paid $ 49 and now it 's $ 125 ! You have to ask yourself , " how much money is dissapointment worth ? " Because , you will be dissapointed . Then you can say , " my dissapointment only cost $ 39 . " I think a $ 39 dissapointment is better then a $ 125 dissapointment ! So , without further adoo . 1 ) frame freezes and the family yells , " dad ! somethings wrong with the dvd player ! come quick ! " 2 ) the remote works , but then it does not work , and you are left standing there thinking you are doing something wrong . 3 ) you must press the play button and hold it for a couple of seconds otherwise it will not work and you will think the whole unit is broken . 4 ) it did play my jpeg photos but wow , trying to figure it out was really something ! 5 ) this apex model 2600 will not work with my universal remote control . I dare you to surf the net and find the code . You will be told goldstar codes work , and you will be told zenith codes will work , and radio shack will give you apex codes but they will not work . Finally you will read a post somewhere that all codes are useless for the apex 2600 . And then you will start to belive them . If this is your fist dvd player . Save yourself some aggrivation .