Samsung DVD511 DVD Player
Slowly got worse
I got this DVD as a Christmas present in 2000.  It started out fine with playing DVDs.  Eventually after using it for a while I began to notice some skips, mainly when it tried switching between tracks on the DVDs.  It didn't bother me a whole lot considering it was a gift and all, but rather annoying no doubt.  Well...I've still got this DVD player (not more much longer I must say!).  Just yesterday I was watching Atlantis on it with my sister, I had to stop it because of visitors and many hours later I came back to finish the movie.  Well to my surprise now it won't read any of my DVDs, but it will still read audio CDs for some reason.  I've unplugged the thing and even tried the old playstation trick of turning it upside down.  I'm guessing it just decided to die on me for no reason because I'm not sure what happened to this thing, it was working perfectly fine earlier.  But when it does try to read the discs now (more like failing at reading them) it is much louder than usual.  Unfortunately, the one year limited warrenty is up on this thing, so is it's life!