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From: enough on 24 Oct 2009 15:41
http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml09/09335.html
From: Al on 24 Oct 2009 17:24
On Oct 24, 3:41 pm, enough <blinkingblyth...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml09/09335.html

So far the failure rate is 1:300,000. Be careful everybody. Danger
lurks.
From: RichA on 24 Oct 2009 19:13
On Oct 24, 3:41 pm, enough <blinkingblyth...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml09/09335.html

$40 DVD players are a waste of money. They don't even last a year,
their output is TRASH.
From: Michael Black on 25 Oct 2009 11:28
On Sat, 24 Oct 2009, RichA wrote:

> On Oct 24, 3:41 pm, enough <blinkingblyth...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml09/09335.html
>
> $40 DVD players are a waste of money. They don't even last a year,
> their output is TRASH.
>
That's funny. My cheap DVD player is now six years old, and is working
fine. I might buy a more expensive one if it broke down, having a better
feel for what's needed and more important I now know that I want to have a
DVD player around, when back then I was hesitant.

On the other hand it probably will last forever, since I pulled a DVD
recorder out of a recycling bin back in June, and after a bit of
adjustment it works find. That too had to be cheap.

Michael
From: Patty Winter on 25 Oct 2009 12:08

In article <Pine.LNX.4.64.0910251126330.19399(a)darkstar.example.net>,
Michael Black <et472(a)ncf.ca> wrote:
>
>On Sat, 24 Oct 2009, RichA wrote:
>
>> $40 DVD players are a waste of money. They don't even last a year,
>> their output is TRASH.
>>
>That's funny. My cheap DVD player is now six years old, and is working
>fine.

Here in the States, the cheapie ones are the ones most apt to be
easily modifiable (i.e., by pushing buttons on the remote) for
multiregion playback, so they can actually be preferable to more
expensive ones in some cases. And I haven't heard horror stories
about them being unreliable.


Patty

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