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JBL On Time Review

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  1. Alex •  September 7, 2006
    Rating: 0.5/5

    You would expect something this nice that costs $250 would have the ability to select and pick play lists or even a specific song.

    … No.

    Plugging in your ipod every single time will automatically play your entire music collection. That’s right. Read that carefully. ALL TRACKS. There is no playlist, compilation or ipod navigation support.

    No amount of style, sound quality can overcome such pathetic design flaws.

    I returned this overpriced piece of crap to Costco and bought a simple @Home clock/radio/ipod for 1/3 of the JBL.

    Rating: 1 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  2. Bec •  September 26, 2006
    Rating: 1.5/5

    I bought one of these and it is great, except for the screen glitching just about every month. Spoke to distributor, was told it was a power fluctuation problem (although many buyers seem to have the same problem) and was told to buy a ups. Now why if I have already forked out $400 would I want to spend another $200 on a device to stop mine from stuffing up. Also as the last review states, he/she is actually incorrect because you can go to individual tracks no problem, you just cant choos them from the unit, you have to choose them on your ipod. Great unit, but I wish I had spent the extra and got the apple dock.

    Rating: 3 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  3. Sandy •  November 13, 2006
    Rating: 4/5

    In spite of its short coming, the JBL ‘On Time’ at $140 is a deal (at the reg. price, it’s a ’4′). The sound quality is excellent. The worst flaw is not being able to plug the iPod in and start the music at the track already selected; instead On Time defaults back to song 1. And programing has a bit of a learning curve and the display is antiquated. BUT…$140 smooths out these design & operational bumps. And at that price its still a better deal than the newly updated On Time with no clock at $250.

    Rating: 8 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  4. Barrie •  January 14, 2007
    Rating: 3.5/5

    Same issue. I bought one of these today. After 2 hours of use, the screen is fragmented and full of loose pixels. Turned it off, and on… the glitches come back. Shame… great product, if only I could see the time it would work great as an alarm clock.

    Rating: 7 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  5. Nathan •  April 8, 2007
    Rating: 1.5/5

    I am now on my third unit and the same problem has happened to every one. After a certain amount of time, from a week to a few months, the on screen display becomes distorted and illegible. All on screen functions become inoperable. You have to unplug the unit and plug it back in. Clock needs to be reset, presets re-entered, basically a pain in the neck. JBL really needs to troubleshoot this product and shouldn’t have it on the market until they correct the problem.

    Rating: 3 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  6. David •  August 5, 2007
    Rating: 1.5/5

    My JBL on time, CT6633, is about a year old and 6mos ago the display went to this pixel missing locked up mode. it has done it 4-5 times since then, I have to pull out the batterys and unplug it and reprogram it I expected more out of JBL wont buy onother one from them!

    Rating: 3 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  7. Gary •  August 25, 2007
    Rating: 2.5/5

    Although this product sounds fair, I too have had the same screen problem. JBL was more then happy to fix my problem, only they exchanged my unit for a dirty used one that still had dust on it. A few weeks into the 1st return the alarm clock screen would freeze again…for over 200 dollars you would think they would build a better product…

    Rating: 5 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  8. E. H. •  March 6, 2008
    Rating: 3.5/5

    I’ve only had this product for about three weeks, the sound and design is quite good but I just experienced the same screen problem. Though it’s fixable it’s quite annoying, and for $200 I expected something better. However I must say that it’s much easier to wake up to the music of my iPod than it is to wake up to the loud beeping of an alarm clock.

    Rating: 7 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  9. Benjamin Dominguez-Montejo •  January 5, 2009
    Rating: 5/5

    Not bad commets. Its amazing sound

    Rating: 10 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

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