Posted by JMC on 10/08/05 04:58

shumway wrote:
> Any recommendations for dvd players that do not break after a year? The
> last 3 I have had, start saying "no disc" after about a year.

I have a cheapy Apex that is still going strong after 5 years. And it
will read *anything*, even badly scratched rental discs that my Toshiba
and DVD-RW drive could not read. And it will read any type of DVD+R,
even the no-name stuff. My Toshiba on the other hand would only read
higher-quality DVD+Rs, and even then it would occassionally freeze and
stutter here and there. Which is odd considering that the old Apex was
built before DVD+R was even an accepted format, I'm sure. The Toshiba is
now dead, after just under two years of use. I used to associate the
Toshiba brand name with high-quality, but now I don't know.

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