We purchased this item as an incentive to potty train our 3 year old.  After a successful two weeks or no accidents, he was rewarded with his "learning system."  He was so excited to play with it he could not contain his joy and was jumping up and down while I was trying to program it.  It took about 15 minutes to program it with our DVD player.  I thought the programming was successful but after he began playing some of the cards we realized it wasn't because the white arrow key (which allows you to fast forward or bypass) did not work.  I tried to reprogram it  - unsuccessfully.  I used both the manual number entry and the automatic programming but still could not get it to operate properly.  I was trying to program it on our multi-disk Pioneer and I had read reports of others having trouble programming on multi-disk units so I tried to program it on our daughter's Polaroid and our portable Polaroid - no luck there either.  My son is too young to understand that we can't program it correctly and is very upset that he can't play it.  If it would work properly I think it is a great concetp but Fisher Price but it out too early without ensuring the appropriate codes or the compatibility for all DVD players.  We had purchased the extra set of Dora games to go with it - which are opened and will not be refunded.  I will be returning the system and putting the credit towards a V-smile.
We purchased this item as an incentive to potty train our 3 year old. After a successful two weeks or no accidents, he was rewarded with his "learning system. "  He was so excited to play with it he could not contain his joy and was jumping up and down while I was trying to program it. It took about 15 minutes to program it with our DVD player. I thought the programming was successful but after he began playing some of the cards we realized it wasn't because the white arrow key (which allows you to fast forward or bypass) did not work. I tried to reprogram it  - unsuccessfully. I used both the manual number entry and the automatic programming but still could not get it to operate properly. I was trying to program it on our multi-disk Pioneer and I had read reports of others having trouble programming on multi-disk units so I tried to program it on our daughter's Polaroid and our portable Polaroid - no luck there either. My son is too young to understand that we can't program it correctly and is very upset that he can't play it. If it would work properly I think it is a great concetp but Fisher Price but it out too early without ensuring the appropriate codes or the compatibility for all DVD players. We had purchased the extra set of Dora games to go with it - which are opened and will not be refunded. I will be returning the system and putting the credit towards a V-smile.