RCA RC5240P DVD Player
RCA no longer builds a quality product
I have to admit that I almost fall into the same category as the writer above who said he never learns.  I have an RCA television that started to give me problems shortly after I bought it.  It quit working completely sometime shortly thereafter.  However, when I saw this RCA DVD player (or one just like it, I'm not sure of the model number) at the store I thought it seemed like a good deal and I bought it.  Because there is a wider selection of videotapes than DVDs, my wife and I rented videotapes most of the time, occasionally we'd rent a DVD.  However, the fourth time we rented and tried to play a DVD (approximately 150 days after purchase) in our RCA DVD player, the player wouldn't even turn on.  I contacted RCA (Thomson Multimedia) who told me that they wouldn't do anything because my 90 day warranty was up.  They told me that the purpose of the warranty was to cover defects in workmanship and materials.  You can't tell me that a player that quits after playing only three DVDs isn't suffering from a defect in workmanship or materials.  The player cost me $180 ( I bought it before recent price drops), played three DVD's and they wanted me to pay another $90 to get the extended service plan.  I said at the top of this note that I was almost like the guy who said he never learns, well I'm just slow to learn.  I paid an average of $60 each to watch three DVDs, you can bet that I'm not dumb enough to pay $90 more.  RCA used to make quality products and used to stand behind their products when they created the occasional lemon, not any more, stay away from anything made by RCA.