InteracTV DVD System Compilation In-Pack
by Fisher Price
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Toys and Games Reviews of InteracTV DVD System Compilation In-Pack
Customer Review: No more electronic toys for us!
Summary: 1 Stars
Since my husband and I are still big video game geeks, we thought this woud be the perfect toy to bring our three year old son into 'our' world, while still teaching him the stuff he needs to learn at his age. We're still waiting to see it happen.
First off, when we purchased it, the DVD that comes with it was so well taped into the box that the tape had gotten all over the disc, including the backside. We cleaned it off, just to find out that the set up between the toy's main unit and our player wasn't working. So we called and ordered a clean game disc (The phone help WAS very polite). We waited another two months to get the new disc, only to again have problems setting it up. Neither the codes for our DVD player, nor the auto-set up worked.
I would love to comment on the games and the programs, but to this date, we still haven't found a DVD player in my family that it works with (and none of them are more than a year old - you'd think if this works in peoples vans it would work in most DVD players!)
Customer Review: Fisher Price needs to go back to the drawing board
Summary: 1 Stars
On Friday night, it was cold & snowy, I said to my 2 1/2 year old daughter, let's go get that Interac TV at Target, that way we will have something fun to do for the weekend. Well...later, we got the toy home, I put the dvd in my DVD player, and the DVD player gave an error message:"the disk you have inserted is damaged." How could this be?, I tried cleaning the "brand new" dvd, cleaning my dvd player, this couldn't be happening. Two hours later, I was fed up. Saturday morning we exchanged the toy @ Target for another one. We got the toy home & put the disk in the DVD player, it worked! ... until we went to program the controller... the top left quadrant of the controller, did not work, at all! I entered all 23 codes for my RCA Brand dvd player & none of them would make the top left part of the controller work. Two hours later, I accepted this toy is a dud! So my disappointed 2 yr old & I returned the item to Target & got a refund. I spent 4 hours this weekend on this toy, when I could've just read my daughter a book!Customer Review: JUST OPENED IT FOR HANUKKAH
Summary: 4 Stars
I just opened yesterday for my 2 1/2 year old daughter. Setup was simple on my Sony 5 DVD player. She enjoyed the characters as she was crazy over Elmo and is now obsessed with Dora. She also saw the Spongebob movie.
There are a few bones to pick:
1) Ergonomics - forward and reverse buttons are place on grips for handles. Children who don't have developed fine motor coordination will keep hitting those buttons.
2) difficulty of questions - some questions involve knowledge that the target age children might not have. The little stories do not provide info that the kids are questioned about; the questions involve prior knowledge i.e. Dora asking if you know where Boots is - He is hiding behind the plant with Rojo flowers [Rose bush]or SpongeBob asking if you can find the Jellyfish hiding behind the animal who grows and has a hard shell [Clam].
It seems good for a kid who is old enough. I will try to add to this review as my 4 1/2 year old niece is going to try it out also.
Customer Review: Waste of Money
Summary: 1 Stars
Very disappointing. Like everyone else, we too had problems programming the controller. Most of the codes listed for our Philips DVD player semi-worked. I could not get any of the codes to recognize the A space, which I have figured out to be the number 1 on the remote and now sit with them and push the number 1 on the dvd remote when needed. But the game play is still sporadic at best. While in the middle of a question it will all of a sudden change programs. And not just start a new program it will jump to the middle of another program. It asked an Elmo question, before my son could answer it started asking a spongebob question. And while playing dora, serveral questions in, it just all of a sudden started over. My 2 and 4 year old have yet be able to finish one of the programs. Very disappointing, I was torn between this and the V-smile and got this due to having so many other FP toys that my kids love but, this was obviously the wrong choice. I plan on taking it back and getting the V-smileCustomer Review: If you have an RCA DVD player avoid this product!
Summary: 1 Stars
Although the manufacturer doesn't inform you ahead of time, if you are planning on using this system with an RCA DVD player, forget about it! It is not compatible, as I found out after unsuccessfully trying their help line several times (they won't accept calls due to a high volume of calls regarding this product), and finally being referred to their website. If you have an RCA don't even bother trying to program the codes listed in the instruction book, the website flat lets you know right off the bat that none of them work. Poor planning on the part of the manufacturer, if you ask me. I'm glad this wasn't my son's "big" Christmas gift this year, or there would have been major disappointment. Luckily, since they're aware of this situation, if you sign up at the Mattel website and the system is incompatible with your DVD player, they'll pay for postage to ship it back to them and then send you a voucher good for an equivalently priced toy from Mattel. I suggest just avoiding it in the first place.