InteracTV DVD System Compilation In-Pack
by Fisher Price
|
Our Price: $69.95 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Buy Used: from $29.99 (click here) Category: Toy See more product details |
|---|
Toys and Games Reviews of InteracTV DVD System Compilation In-Pack
Customer Review: Not for over 4 yrs old - CALL FISHER PRICE BEFORE YOU BUY
Summary: 2 Stars
I had Grandma buy this toy for my daughter's 5th birthday. There were immediate problems with this system not being compatible with our DVD players. We have 4 DVD players in our home, it only worked on 1 DVD player and even then it only worked sporatically. When I called for help with the other 3 players I was told that the system was not compatible with those players. Like other people who have left reviews - my DVD players are not old, they are less than 2 years old. The other issue I have with this player is when my daughter was able to make it work she had the games figured out within 1 or 2 times of playing the games. So when her 4 year old friend came over, my daughter would press the answers before the questions were even asked. Overall - I would not reccomend for over age 4, maybe even age 3. I would also HIGHLY recommend calling Fisher Price BEFORE purchasing this item to see if your DVD systems will even work with it. I also was lucky enough to have a very nice manager at Toys R Us let me return this (even though I did not have packaging or receipt) - mainly because I bought a V-Smile from him in it's place. I would definately recommend V-Smile over this item if you are deciding between the two. V-Smile games go up to age 7 age groups. My daughter has loved playing with the V-Smile and has 4 games for it.Customer Review: DO NOT BUY!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
I have 3 words to say about this product.... Awful, Awful, Awful! I have never been so disappointed in a toy or in Fisher Price for that matter. What a nightmare. I have 3 DVD players, 2 of which are about a year old and one that is about 5 years old. The only DVD player it worked with on a "when it felt like it" basis was the oldest one. My 3-1/2 year old was SO sad that she couldn't play it. What a HUGE let down for a child on Christmas. I tried several times to call only getting a message that they were having high call volume and to call later followed by a click and dial tone! I called the normal conusmer relations line and actually got a human being who told me they could not answer any questions about the InteracTV product and would have to transfer me, then I sat on hold for 45 mintues to no avail. I finally hung up. What a waste!! I don't think I will be purchasing another Fisher Price product for quite some time because of this.
Luckily because this was a gift from Grandma and we had no receipt and the packaging was thrown away with all the other Christmas wrapping, Toys R Us gladly took it back and gave us store credit.
PLEASE SAVE YOUR CHILD'S DISAPPOINTMENT AS WELL AS YOUR FRUSTRATION AND DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT!
Customer Review: Worth the wait!
Summary: 4 Stars
Our daughter received the Interactv for her 3rd birthday and did we have dramas!! We tried it on 5 DVD players (LG, Magnavox, AWA, Audiosonic and Sony - from various relatives houses!!)before it finally worked on the Sony. Its very disappointing that its not compatible with all of these players regardless of what the code booklet says. We called Fisher Price and actually asked what player it WOULD be compatible with and we were told Sony. We bought a new player which we needed anyway for $189 AUS and it worked on this as well as the in-laws $460 player (Sony of course). I'm sure it works on other brands but for those that are going crazy trying to set it up this might help you, as I looked everywhere trying to find out what DVD players people were getting it to work with and couldn't find anything! Regardless of all this our daughter is now playing very happily with a toy which is now working perfectly and is very entertaining and educational. It is a great product and once you find a compatible player it sets up in less then 5 minutes, I just wish that more research had gone into making it compatible with all DVD players or that they had actually listed on the box what players it works with so you can check before you buy.Customer Review: Once it's working it's great!
Summary: 5 Stars
We bought this for my 3 year old daughter for Christmas. At first I tried to set it up on our living room TV. We have a Panasonic DVD/VCR combo. I have to admit it was really a pain. There were many codes for our model DVD. It wasn't as easy and enter the code and see if it works. Every time you enter a code you have to switch from programming to test card just to see if it works properly. If you have to go through more than a few codes this can be extremely time consuming and frustrating!! So after a few unsuccessful attempts I decided to try the manual way of programming. But, even this way of programming proved very frustrating. We thought we finally had it programmed, but then all the test buttons wouldn't work. So, I figured since she got a small TV and DVD player for her room I may as well set it up in there instead. That model DVD had only one code and I had it set up in less than a minute! Once I got it working my daughter couldn't stop playing with it. She figured it out so fast! It really makes them pay attention and think. In the end it's definitely worth the investment if you have just a little bit of patience in setting it up.Customer Review: interactv waste of time and money
Summary: 1 Stars
i bought this for my son for christmas and all 4 dvds that go with it. we were all very excited to start using this, so we tried using almost as soon as my son unwrapped it. we were suprised(since we hadnt seen these reviews before) that not only did it not work on our living room dvd player, but it didnt work on the other 3 dvd players in the house or the mobile one in the van. i've wasted probably 4 hours trying to program this to work, only to find out, according to fisher price, that it is not compatible with any of our dvd players.
not only has this been a huge waste of time and money, it made my son very upset when it wouldnt work. all fisher price will do is issue me a merchandise credit. well, i for one will not be purchasing anything else electronic from fisher price again.
i am waiting to see if they are going to give me a merchandise voucher on the dvds, we opened them, not thinking for a second that the system wouldnt work. so they are non returnable as well.
i warn anyone that is considering purchasing an interactv to beware of the possibility that it will not work on your dvd player. is it worth the risk. i think not.