cheap tat!, 22 April 2009

This is a cheap piece of rubbish that just doesn't work! All that happened was that my one year old little girl took hold of the flimsy plastic 'shield' and pulled the whole DVD off the table!! And the plastic is so thin anyway, that the buttons could still be pressed through it!!!!! In my view, this is a potential safety HAZARD in the home! (I didn't even want to rate it, but had to give it one star to create this review.)

Mixed bag, 4 Feb. 2013

My one year old daughter loves pushing buttons. And ejecting discs and eating them. I was hoping that this shield would stop that from happening. For the most part it does stop her. She can occasionally sneak her finger between the shield and the player and hit the power button, but for the most part, the player is safe from her.

However, the lock interferes with the tray, and sometimes prevents it from opening. It is also directly in front of the remote sensor, preventing the remote from working when the shield is closed. That may not be a problem if your receiver is toward the top of the player or on the sides, but if it is in the center lower half, your remote will not work with this shield on. In addition, by necessity of making the shield baby-proof, the shield is semi-permanent, meaning if you want to reposition it, you can't. You will be able to get it off your player, but the adhesive is ruined by doing so.

Because of these problems, when my...

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Give it a go, 7 Oct. 2009

This is worth buying. It's easy to fit and once in place it's so fiddley that it even slows us grown ups down (but not so exasperating that you want to chuck it across the room). After six months no toddlers have worked it out. (But now I'm tempting fate...)

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