Are DVD players designed to fail? We have one (an Aspire AD-N820B) whose tray seems to be jammed shut. I can’t get it open, not even enough to get a pair of tweezers around it to pull.
It’s not like it’s worn out from heavy usage. I’ll bet we’ve played about fifteen movies and a dozen CDs on it.
This isn’t the first time we’ve had this happen with DVD players. The open/close function is the only mechanical part of these things, so I suppose it’s not unusual that it would fail first, but it’s aggravating to have to replace a player every two years or so.
Anyway, who’s had good experiences with DVD players and what brand/model did you buy? Under $100, please; if they’re going to break every two years I don’t see the point in spending as much on a player as on the television itself.
Note: I think we own six movies on DVD. Upconversion (which I don’t understand entirely; feel free to explain it to me) doesn’t seem to be a necessity. It might be unavoidable, from what I can tell of the products currently on the market, but I don’t have a huge stock of movies I want to convert to HD.