Posted by Mike S. on 11/07/05 01:44

In article <1129555443.360527.94190@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
<elrous0@pop.uky.edu> wrote:
>This has been a problem since cheap players (<$100) became the norm.
>Even name brands fail now. I have an original Toshiba 2006 ($500) that
>still works after 8 years. I have a Toshiba 2109 ($250) that still
>works after 5 years. The last two Toshibas I bought (both about $80 in
>2003) both failed after about a year.

Early Toshiba players were actually manufactured by Toshiba.
More recent Toshiba-labelled players are manufactured by Lucky-Goldstar
(LG)

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