Pioneer DV275S Silver Progressive Scan DVD Player
Out, out brief DVD player!
I know it's not entirely fair to judge a product line according to one defective unit, but this has happened twice in the past 4 months. A Sony DVD player I bought in the same price range died after one week, and now this Pioneer gave up the ghost in less than 10 minutes. Really. It froze up the very first time I used it and would no longer read discs. The local electronics shop said it needed a new optical thingy-ma-bob which would cost more than the DVD player is worth. The moral of this tale is simple and can be applied to almost any purchase: Do not buy from the low end of the price spectrum; spend half again as much and get something of quality. If only I'd learned my lesson the first time.