Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Buyer Beware

This player is not region free, as some have claimed. It had trouble playing certain foreign and indie DVDs (not DVD-Rs, mind you) from day one. Some disks just wouldn't play at all, even though they played fine in other players. After 5 months (not long after the warranty ended), the player completely crashed. Won't play anything now. If it does play, it stops after the 4th or 5th chaper - just freezes and has to be ejected and reloaded to even get the menu. Tried emailing the manufacturer and predictably they never answered. In short, this thing plays okay (and just okay) until the warranty is up.